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Stoplight Poems - Poems about Stoplight

Caution
...Yellow Caution Watch out The leaf The leaf painted on my bag The stoplight says, "Proceed with caution." ......

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Categories: stoplight, anxiety, fear, mental health,
Form: Tyburn
Parking Space
... Metro auto wipes against my glass muck, fog and rain crush the inside out of me — There part of her appearing windshield down; this myself, a glitter in the stoplight — Now the slick and s......

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Categories: stoplight, car, deep, innocence, kiss,
Form: Blank verse



Empty
... There’s a lot of empty space. In the car. In the passenger seat. The next stoplight. Everything stops. Except one honking horn. Then it continues. There’s a lot of empty space. Except on......

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Categories: stoplight, angst, loss,
Form: Free verse
The PistonTrain
...Monday morning comes alive with the piston train speeding by, thousands of people gather at the gate and crowd the platform before it was too late. Monday morning full of passion with hangover lin......

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Categories: stoplight, anger, break up, business,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Blood Moon
...There is a moon stuck inside the stoplight A still unblinking gaze controlling blood tides Circulatory system like New York City in the seventies The thrashing of my tire fire heart led To the tr......

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Categories: stoplight, allegory, anger, animal, change,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Homeless
...foggy morning at the stoplight he talks to himself again......

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Categories: stoplight, mental illness,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member We Wont Act Like That
...Newlyweds in Michigan City trailng tin cans pause at the stoplight. Car hauling distraught looking man on a rope races out of sight You don’t suppose that’s her husband! The new groom said. Oh yes......

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Categories: stoplight, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Men Beware
...Jarvis was a goner the second he saw her bouncy hair She recognized this and reeled him right into her lair Her amber eyes gave him the stoplight green. Jarvis from that moment was never again see......

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Categories: stoplight, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hurry Up and Wait
...Here is my life. Hurry up and wait. Rush. Rush. Rush. Try not to wreck your car. Yesterday I nearly had a heart attack. I was the fifth car off the exit ramp. My meeting was right around the c......

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Categories: stoplight, car,
Form: Free verse
Sam Adams Drunk Driver Same, Same But Different
...Sam Adams Drunk Driver Same, Same but Different Sam Adams was drunk driving Too fast down an English rural country lane He ran at a stoplight he did not see Blew threw a roundabout Was rubb......

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Categories: stoplight, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rule of Threes Five
...Pride negatory Better to share His glory God writes your story Special kind of gain We can only learn through pain God may not explain Treasure has a source Wisdom is treasure, of course ......

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Categories: stoplight, bible, christian, muse, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Summers Love
...We fell in love in a one stoplight town During a summer right out of a dream Exploring each other under a full summers moon Making love until we ran out of steam You were gorgeous late in the e......

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Categories: stoplight, lust, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Always
...ALWAYS. ******** Understand. I MUST go On these clearing acts of Instinct and inspiration, these flashings As they come. For a blizzard has Been moving in and the snow is Piling up by the f......

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Categories: stoplight, death, endurance, inspiration, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Star Gazing
...~ Star Gazing ~ A star shone bright in my window one night I leaped from my bed and I sang it a tune It grinned at me, then took off like a flash I sprinted after it madly, a 100-yard das......

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Categories: stoplight, fantasy, happiness, heartbreak, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gratitude
...I am grateful for a dancer's flow, gravity unhinged for the bubble laugh of infants for the stoplight on unsustainable war ......

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Categories: stoplight, appreciation, encouraging, happiness, how
Form: Free verse

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