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Thoroughfares Poems - Poems about Thoroughfares

Mining Meteors

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(With Wormwood Dreams)
The fire and ice, heaven and hell equinox calibration of scales, scorched Earth
beneath a sky of epic fail of primary colors in triple beam, sale, cine-scene-
totem of...
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Categories: thoroughfares, art,
Form: Free verse

Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa

...“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”

Spurred by mother dearest 
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tr...
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Categories: thoroughfares, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme



Somewhere

...Somewhere in these busy woods
a woodpecker tattoos tree bark,
I hear its piercing peck and drumming.

Above me songbirds and squirrels
hustle to and fro
through their arboreal thoroughfares.

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Categories: thoroughfares, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSeparation

...I know the aching heart 
Knows that longings
Can never be fully apart
And satisfied anymore
Through bodily meetings.

I know I can never share 
Stories of childhood tears 
And fears bravely c...
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Categories: thoroughfares, hope, longing, loss, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCrossroads

...Crossroads                                   
                                                                               

                                                  Five   corners
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Categories: thoroughfares, angst, life,
Form: Shape



Premium MemberNocturnal Prayers

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Fireflies dance through black space
twinkling in the shadows of moonlight
reminding hearts why the star's glow
flickering kindly with a silent hope
wistfully tracing the silhouettes...
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Categories: thoroughfares, dance, dark, imagination, moon,
Form: Free verse

Country Lane

...Child of the thoroughfares
Allowed to wander.
To scurry off with the hares.
Followed of me down.

Craved, thrived in; bend on bend
This gentle bonding.
Through a shared peace, to the end
King...
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Categories: thoroughfares, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Liberty

...Freedom to display one’s unwashed teeth
Exhibiting the whole thirty-two,
Even as others with anger seethe 
And the keenest insults on one rain, too.
	
Voice to broadcast one’s HIV-Status
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Categories: thoroughfares, desire, environment, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

On the Move

...Through the thoroughfares,
Started the defiant journey,
Went along , the worldly scares,
Whilts moving towards life's tourney.

Linked up the bits,
Made up the path,
Moving down the streets,
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Categories: thoroughfares, 11th grade, adventure, allusion,
Form: Rhyme

Ghost Towns Criss Cross Wide World

...Information superhighway bumper to binary bumper. 
Stark contrast versus deserted macadam thoroughfares.
Magnification rendered visualization coronavirus
alias covid 19 courtesy electron microscop...
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Categories: thoroughfares, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

A Poet

...A poet soul is ubiquitous 
Wandering far and wide unceasingly
In search of covert destination which is serendipitous 
Numerous thoroughfares travelled tirelessly 
Yet the poet's soul do not outcr...
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Categories: thoroughfares, age, atheist, blessing, celebrity,
Form: Sonnet

Of the Dreaded Scourge Currently Afflicting the Municipality and Environ of My Nativity and Youth

...This dread disease that has afflicted my home, 
This malady, this plague on my house;
This making convertible the former quaintness and provincialism thereof 
Into something wholly despicable and ...
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Categories: thoroughfares, adventure, allegory, allusion, anger,
Form: I do not know?

A Lover's Trail

...Nature's love ways are sometimes cruel but fair;
Balanced charters set with no inspection; 
A lover's passage laid for those who dare;
Full hearts so often blind to reflection. 

Seek not a path...
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Categories: thoroughfares, journey, love, nature, together,
Form: Rhyme

The Aimless Wanderer

...The lights of the city reflecting from the aqueous pitch, pavements in a kaleidoscope of colours create a melancholy ambience for the few who venture within. The city is transformed as the animated b...
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Categories: thoroughfares, care, city, lonely, sad,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRobin of the Hoodie

...Robin of the Hoodie

Alas, resides in Sherwood Forest,
one Robin of the Hoodie.  He’s lost
amid the greenery, weeping
as sunset nears for underneath
the Hood he hides his deep
and lonely fears...
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Categories: thoroughfares, children, growing up,
Form: Free verse

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