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Turnpike Poems - Poems about Turnpike

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?
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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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