Chickadee
...Coming back home, after a long stint south,
I passed the blue sign on the turnpike that reads
“Massachusetts Welcomes You.”
Under the “Welcomes,” some Mayflower blooms,
And a chickadee perche...
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Categories:
turnpike, bird, death, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Where it Began
...My grandmother knew
the exact moment I was born.
She was sitting in the passenger seat
of my grandfather’s navy blue Jeep Wrangler.
Speeding down the New Jersey turnpike,
the windows tremble...
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Categories:
turnpike, anxiety, birth, childhood, depression,
Form: Free verse
Making Time
...I like your tall shadows
and model village
I could talk mouthfuls for hours
Seeing your visage
behind the blue mountain ridge
was meant to be
by some ancient turnpike
i drink your muse
firing...
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Categories:
turnpike, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
God Inserted Poems into Soul Horn Whatever Poem
...To write poems is my greatest goal;
God did insert them unto my soul,
Along with that created the need;
Sit down in chair and start to read.
While taking long trip on a turnpike,
Found perfect...
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Categories:
turnpike, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Just Around the Bend
...Interstate routes
Endless road
Highway travel the threshold
On and off ramp
Distances being miles
Listening to music while
Once and a while rest stop
Sometimes rain could fall on car top
High...
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Categories:
turnpike, adventure, america, body, care,
Form: Free verse
Love In the Wind
...As I travelled down I395 I saw cars lined up with harzard lights flashing.
I knew it was a procession of some sort
As I went past all the cars in tow
I saw most men in black suits
Then I got to t...
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Categories:
turnpike, black african american, cry,
Form: Free verse
The Black Ribbon of Possibilities
...The long road,
where does your dark thread unwind?
Bent willows follow where you lead,
and sunflowers drink the roadside rain.
The sun and wind,
tumble the weeds down your turnpike.
And I who f...
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Categories:
turnpike, life,
Form: Free verse
If and When, It Depends
...Knit one purl one, knit two together.
Drop a stitch, it runs.
Unpick, pick-up the loops one by one,
align them, precisely, nicely right,
on your knitting needle.
Get back to counting sheep to s...
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Categories:
turnpike, how i feel, people,
Form: Free verse
Steeplechase Day
...THE RACE
In a rural
country vale
Aylesbury's forgotten tale
a steeplechase
from memory long gone
the four mile hunt
from Waddesdon
Twenty
weighed in at the Wh...
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Categories:
turnpike, history, memory, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Poetic Thoughts On Crossing the Delaware River
...There were two
Acting role written as ‘cool’
One from the first state
Other an empire whose façade outside looks great
Table chances inside the beachside resorts
A drive through free federal hig...
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Categories:
turnpike, america, appreciation, patriotic, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Freeway of Escape
...In this era of experimentation,
unforeseen boulders form
in the road of progress.
Low interest rates
encourage the right hand to invest,
while the left speculates unnoticed.
Governments sp...
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Categories:
turnpike, society, trust,
Form: Free verse
My First Set of Wheels
...MY FIRST OF WHEELS
Remember that sense of freedom?
Your keys, you free, in your very own teen-aged kingdom.
If older, like me, seats then, were made of fresh new leather.
Oh, that scent j...
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Categories:
turnpike, appreciation, car, fun, high
Form: Couplet
Self Imposed Chains
...She had bought into the dream captivated by the idea of wealth
Given herself no mercy, strapped on those pantyhose like holsters.
Envious of the women she saw on lunch hour who had on light dresses...
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Categories:
turnpike, work,
Form: Prose Poetry
Rider On Board
...Rider on board…..
Life is a road trip,
Where all the experiences,
Are the junctions.
And we travel along,
In those turnpike.
With gloves on,
With the confidence.
So let's turn the Ferrari,
...
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Categories:
turnpike, art, grave, lost, travel,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Thaw Time Tune:A Change In the Weather
...I remember the thaw
when I headed South to crawl
through Carnegie's tunnels
in a Saab that would stall
in the mist or the rain
Spring, Winter, and Fall--
O I remember the thaw
and the c...
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Categories:
turnpike, memory, repetition, weather,
Form: Light Verse
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