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Stoplights Poems - Poems about Stoplights

Premium Member Waiting for Waiting’s End
...The chancy countdown clock of my mortality is ticking toward some unknown preset alarm. I’m aware of every taciturn tick tock in unrecoverable moments spent waiting for something to happen… and ......

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Categories: stoplights, courage, death, faith, mystery,
Form: Free verse
But First
...I’m waiting for my mom to move. She puts the car into drive. My car had airbags. The ones she grew up with didn’t. Huh. My mom is driving, I wonder why she’s taking this weird route. I never ......

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Categories: stoplights, car,
Form: Free verse



Sidereal
...My heart burns with a cold, white fire Fighting against itself in a battle no one can win I am contrived, a portrait of a girl who... And anyone can fill me in. My destiny was not written for th......

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Categories: stoplights, life, lost, stars, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mattson, a Place Unforgotten
...In these United States of America, there is a little town not very far off the beaten path. Neither gold nor silver has ever been mined in or near this town of fertile delta soil. No sweet crude runs......

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Categories: stoplights, home,
Form: Narrative
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: stoplights, bible, christian, muse, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



So Many Sweet Things
...Teapots that whistle on chilled Winter morns Calling the day to begin as it scorns Wake up you sleepy head, make room for love Walking to wor......

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Categories: stoplights, blessing, happy, heart, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dangerous Games
...Because of all the lunies on the superhighways My son's decided to take a leisurely drive on the byways Many more stoplights But safer, less fights Bout who cuts off who, dangerous games ......

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Categories: stoplights, travel,
Form: Limerick
Journey
...Life is a journey with many different paths Love is one such path that everyone likes the glory of walking on Love's path is full of thorns,hurdles and barriers that prevent many from travelling s......

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Categories: stoplights, christian, courage, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Five-Thirty Am Cityscape
...Lights dawning Sleepyheads yawning Babies crying Mothers sighing Coffee pouring Busses roaring Winds shifting Debris drifting Laborers hurrying Rats scurrying Teen-agers snoring Alarm ......

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Categories: stoplights, city, life, love, morning,
Form: Rhyme
My Winter
...I remember one night last winter when we thought it was snow falling, but we were wrong. It was ice. We went out that night and stayed out too late -- unusual for folks our age. We got caught in t......

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Categories: stoplights, adventure, car, introspection, january,
Form: Prose Poetry
Way Back Home
...On my way back home, I thought of you. Your face flashed in an instant. I heard whispers of your voice, so gentle I wanted to listen more. And then I felt how you vellicate my face, my neck. Your han......

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Categories: stoplights, art, feelings, for her,
Form: Prose
Google This
...Google Maps told me today that my Phoenix to Tucson drive would last an hour and fifty-seven minutes. At excactly two-nineteen I would arrive. But surely it is folly to assume How could Google......

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Categories: stoplights, car, computer, future, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Hopeless Nomadic Part 1
...Cracked beer bottles and detached baby rattles in slightly untidy, black plastic wrappers. No garbage can nor box or bag is exempt from the burrower’s thorough ransack. Rancid rubbish, rich with un......

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Categories: stoplights, autumn, community, corruption, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Liberate Me
...I SAY LIBERATE ME! free me from a bondage known all too well free me from those chain-links felt way too much free me from a world that's so out of touch,even though it manages to stay in ......

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Categories: stoplights, angst, emotions, farewell, spoken
Form: Free verse
Small Town
...She grew up just 20 minutes southwest of Tulsa.. In a small town with 2 stoplights and a Tastee Freeze... Everyone gathered at the First Baptist Church every Sunday morning... Remember, if you hav......

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Categories: stoplights, growing up,
Form: Lyric

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