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Tarmac Poems - Poems about Tarmac

You'll get Yours -- Tooth for Tooth
...12 when I wrote this, from the perspective of a mushroom. My gills grasping at air, but the grass is not too far; My scales glimmering stupidly to shine through watered tar. And in the ......

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Categories: tarmac, bible, environment, nature, planet,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member To Fly
... If I was meant to fly I'd have feathers and wings. For being naked, no lift-off brings. Instead I try to use sticks, feathers, paper and strings, like Icarus, and the Wright Brothers, Wilbur a......

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Categories: tarmac, bird, car, fairy, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Two departures, One arrival
...Late at the airport, in haste we arrived. Rumbling plastic wheels rushing in unity, from tarmac to marble to carpet; the shuffling queue dispersed, finally. Luggage swept away, adorned with label......

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Categories: tarmac, 11th grade, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member More Reflections from Venice
... I'm just enjoying the bells of Venice ringing (almost incessantly, but beautiful nonetheless) and admiring the way my friend snores to the tune of We Will Rock You It feels so easy to see beauty......

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Categories: tarmac, appreciation,
Form: Bio
Tattoo Deportation- Inked in Chains
...The sound of wheels on tarmac Keeps me focused Keeps me grounded Keeps me present The sound of wheels on tarmac Takes me farther and farther away From everything I have ever known Chained up......

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Categories: tarmac, longing, symbolism, war,
Form: Free verse



The Abandonment
...It was full of long stringy grass which had grown out, all over the back of the house. It hung over the bare walls. The briars were everywhere and they would prick you clean red blooded. The shed wid......

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Categories: tarmac, absence, earth, environment, garden,
Form: Alliteration
The Echo returns not
...It’s a cold December afternoon, Four-thirty, and already dusk is upon us. We walk side by side, like since forever, Up the slight incline that takes us to the top of the road, Shoes scuffling on ......

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Categories: tarmac, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
My Last Memory Of You At The Airport
...Last glimpse of Davao Seen underneath the plane wing Before its sun down. Last time glued with you Wearing those lovely smile Is viewed from tarmac. Last time I kiss you My knees shaking t......

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Categories: tarmac, love, memorial, relationship,
Form: Senryu
Seasonal Dreams
...I was hoping that you could come so that we could pack our bags and run, the plane is on the tarmac and the crew is waiting to close the boarding gate, you have got to get on the tracks before it’s ......

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Categories: tarmac, business, care, career, earth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dawn
...Rimmed with red, the sky emerges from an alcoholic haze, collapses on the shoulder of a hill. As thin-lipped as the letter box, I brush a broken bottle from the driveway: shards of glass ......

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Categories: tarmac, drug, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member WHO ACTUALLY IS LIKE US
...Who actually is like us The modern world you see today Right before your eyes, Who done this and who done that Well you’re in for a wee surprise. From the Bank of England to the Bank of France......

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Categories: tarmac, appreciation, inspiration, motivation, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Return from Desert
...Back from the desert and loving it both the visit and the return. The powerful plane deiced in Chicago. Brittlebush, difficulty distinguishing acacia from ironwood. Mesquite, and plenty of palove......

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Categories: tarmac, cancer, home, music, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Third Quantum Subject Specifics: The Applications of Murphy's Law - Part II: ANSWERED
...My distracting theatrics verses are preempted versions of impending calamity, one by air, and, one by sea. The point of levity is to advance the common element of surprise--the unexpected......

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Categories: tarmac, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Earthquake in england
...Last night the dream was this We were more solid than possible we sensed the huge solid planet beneath us shake us we were falling hard And someone said The universe is being destroyed. As i wa......

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Categories: tarmac, fate,
Form: Free verse
Oslo
...Oslo I was in Oslo once and saw the old king riding a horse, but I was a painting of the Danish king the king of Norway is more moderate  he drives Bentley The king and I are of the same age, ......

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Categories: tarmac, 11th grade, beach, best
Form: Blank verse

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