French Monorhymehappenstance or happy stance?
fate so great, I do a dance
magic of day makes me prance
gorgeous day to live in France...
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Categories:
travel,
Form: Monorhyme
Winding Way IICrow calls me.
Not with voice…
With posture, shadow
A black curl moving, against turquoise sky.
I follow.
...
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Categories:
travel, bird, education, magic, mystery,
Form: Free verse
The Wanderer Stands Beneath the SkyThe sky does not explain itself
It simply opens.
The wanderer... quiet with ash and memory
Does not ask it to.
For there is a wind that knows his name
It never speaks it aloud.
As together, they walk...
Not forward, but further....
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Categories:
life, philosophy, travel, wind,
Form: Free verse
If My Ancestor Boarded The TitanicIf he had boarded the frail proud lady,
My ancestor would have been a hysteric.
It would have been nothing new to him, though —
Boarding such a mighty vessel
With an unsinkable testimonial.
He had been on board Noah’s ark
For more than 40 days and 40 nights —
The first-ever lockdown in the first-ever
Flood pandemic.
He would have consulted an oracle...
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Categories:
sea, travel,
Form: Free verse
ARRIVING AT EL PASOsubmitted into "Premier VII Open Poetry Contest," Rob Carmack, Sponsor
ARRIVING AT EL PASO © Sara Etgen-Baker 2025
Some 20+ years ago, hubby and I took up roots, moving across the entire state of Texas for the hope of a better future. This poem attempts to capture my initial thoughts upon our arrival. (Yes, our future...
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Categories:
12th grade, future, travel,
Form: Free verse
O leave your home-bound worldO leave your home-bound narrow world,
Take to the vast dome of the world.
No use just sticking to your home,
See, sun and moon roam in the world.
As do old leaves, flowers and fruits,
Turn not to soil’s loam of the world.
Look at home-bound frustrate oceans,
Ground-stuck, they froth and foam in world.
There’s world to learn...
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Categories:
home, travel, world,
Form: Ghazal
JaywalkingThis is when the old and the young,
beasts and confraternal drunks
damn the consequences of death
lying porous on crossroads upon
bifurcated paths, fractured junctions
and ceremonial cul-de-sacs...
The time is immaterial,
so long as the traffic lights — the veggie-green,
the claret, and the urine-amber —choose their slow
blinking and rapid-eyelid movement carefully.
And moon might decide not to power its own light.
Tenebrous...
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Categories:
car, city, travel, urban,
Form: Free verse
WE SEE LONDON WE SEE FRANCE DAY 5
Up today at 5:00 A. M….this was not by chance…
We had to get up that to catch the 7:30 train to France.
Paris to be exact…so with our packed suitcases in hand…
we headed off to Paris…just as our Ooh La La tour guide planned.
A note about Ooh La La Tours…
When Bryan was planning the Paris part...
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Categories:
family, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Time and TrainsThroughout the years, at different destinations
even through four seasons and twelve months
the trains come daily, arriving at the stations
people board during work days and holidays
some have a journey for hours on end
the minutes pass, as pairs have conversations
seconds tick by on folk's watches....
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Categories:
time, travel,
Form: Free verse
WE SEE LONDON DAY 4
After I woke up and went out to our little balcony to write…
a ladybug landed on my computer and decided there to stay
As she traversed the perimeter of my computer…
I knew it was going to be great day
We took the tube to Buckingham Palace…where more history was unlocked.
We strode the rooms and hallways where kings...
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Categories:
travel,
Form: Rhyme
ObjectionsThe real purpose of the visa tourism
Is the humiliation of the guests
Its “us and them” post tribal atavism
The applicants are treated like suspects
The so called survey list interrogates
Some questions that can't be rationalized
To play a reason to pass through the border gates
Despite prejudice that you are crimnalized
The papers you submit might...
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Categories:
prejudice, travel, world,
Form: Rhyme
longing of train whistlesuch longing in a long sad, drawn-out train whistle
do metal objects have feelings?
this sound makes the idea plausible...
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Categories:
travel,
Form: Free verse
Calm Waters, Safe Harbour
I've been to a few strange places in my day
some hotter than the hottest spot on the sun
some colder than the coldest crater on the moon
and all the while I was looking for someone
looking here looking there I was searching everywhere
now I found you you are the one my searching days are done
for my heart...
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Categories:
travel, moon, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Rhyme
I SEE LONDON I SEE FRANCE
Every day we’re making memories…we’re out in the world having fun…
and every day, if I am lucky, I write a few lines about one…
But with our suitcases and passports packed…and armed with Google translator
For the next 10 days we’ll be making so many memories…
I’ll have to write abut them later.
We are celebrating Ava’s graduation
Making memories...
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Categories:
family, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Waiting at the bus stopa bobble hat fellow rumbles along
sharp turns behind me - hello -
but reaches up to the wall
grabs an apple 80 percent intact
and hobbles away again
a few seconds later he's back again
turns behind me, bends low
and picks up the soggy, abandoned
box of donuts
two inside remaining
successful mission
he wobbles away...
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Categories:
travel, england, food, london, simple,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Travel Poems
Definition | What is Travel in Poetry?
Poems Related to Travel
adventure, biking, cruise, cruising, driving, excursion, expedition, flying, globe trotting, roam, sailing, seafaring, sightsee, sightseeing, tour, touring, traveling, trek, trekking, trip, vacation, voyage, voyaging, wander, wandering, wanderlust,