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The Wayside of Another Day

Like a bombshell it's killing you
The day she said her love was through
It's time for her to hit the road

With bags in hand she's out the door
You're left alone just like before
So what will help to ease the load

Nothing hurts like a broken heart
The pain remains the day you start
To dwell only on the past

Each

Categories: wayside, heartbroken,
Form: Lyric

By the Wayside Stricken

Who lies now by the wayside stricken,
sick of body,  sick of soul?
His eyes are closed, his ears are deaf
to the somber bells that toll.
 I knew this man now sadly stricken
in happier days when blessed by wealth,
famed for both his strength and valor,
his soul and body in best health.
He saved my kindred, then the

Categories: wayside, friend, humanity, sympathy,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Vanity By the Wayside

I’ve often mentioned Hilly in the poems that I have written,
and I’ve often said that Hilly with a brewer’s surely smitten,
so you’re libel now to see him in the state that I call ‘blotto’
but today he can afford it because he recently won lotto.

But Hilly’s really not that stupid that he wasted all on beer.
He

Categories: wayside, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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The Wayside

Over the years
some were carefully carried
tied up in tiny bundles
held tight against the heart

While the other
more awkward ones
were pulled behind in a cart
like so many precious parcels
taken along for the ride

But a few fell
and rolled astray
off by the wayside
along the way

Some were missed
right away
with heartaches and tears

While others were
eventually missed
after some years

And some not noticed

Categories: wayside, friendship, memory, people, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Don'T Fall By the Wayside

D-on't fall by the wayside, 
I-n spite of the rugged wind; 
A-im to reach your goal, 
N-ever let your ardor
E-nd.

F-all not by the wayside, 
L-et not your fervor fail; 
O-n the twenty-sixth of August, 
R-ow your boat and sail.
E-ven though it's isn't easy to go against the tide; 
S-tay focused to emerge winner, don't fall

Categories: wayside, birthday,
Form: Acrostic

The Wind To the Wayside

The Wind to the Wayside

     There’s an old man sleeping on the bank of a river, and he’s flying his dreams in an indigo sky. If you listen so softly, there’s a chance you’ll remember his words of magic to the old and the wise.
     There’s a

Categories: wayside, journey,
Form: Free verse

Wayside

By this wayside
Here on the verge
See humble pride
Floral calm merge


I walk pass here
Sense stillness clear
Beauty dots near
As silence steers


Watch beauty grace
Such common things
Truth wears a face
Feel peace now sing


Green grassy patch
Contours to match
Joy waits to catch
A profound batch


Glimpse of odd cheer
By wayside verge
Nature speaks clear
Watch joy emerge




Leon Enriquez
14 January 2017
Singapore

Categories: wayside, beauty,
Form: Quatrain

By the Wayside

Near the garbage, I did see
A sad, discarded Christmas tree
Wrapped up in a plastic bag,
A sight to make the spirits sag.

With Christmas looming, it seems rash
To toss a tree out with the trash.
I wondered 'bout the reasons why
That tree was ditched, with no goodbye.

Perhaps it brought some bugs inside
Or else the owner up and died.
It's

Categories: wayside, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

Sunset- That Wayside Nook, and the Dying Sun

That wayside beatific nook,
With a crimson seraphic look;
Silhouetted against a dying sun, 
Like dying embers of a satiny run;
Every twig lunging an officious bow,
For a kiss of the pasture lain below;
Hark, the trill of the melodious lark!
Clung to the bevel of the bare bark;
A raised horizon owing to an incumbent brow,
Dwelled by the shades in

Categories: wayside, beauty, creation, sun, sunset,
Form: Lyric

Wayside Flowers

the wayside flowers I see when passing through

never fail to touch my soul

God's offering to me

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3/17/2015


Featured poem of the week commencing 12/11/2016

Categories: wayside, christian, flower,
Form: Kimo

Wayside Poetry Lines

He found a poetry lines written by the wayside 
They were lyrical pieces of elemental sweet ride 
So he hurriedly did post them
To the holy city of Bethlehem
Before he walked away full of pride

Categories: wayside, funny,
Form: Limerick

Wayside Walk

Ocean gales and tidal shift
Pounding 
Basalt and sandstone mountains
Boulders 
Rocks tumble into pebbles
Mighty trees 
Uproot and splinter in Neptune's fury
Under my feet,  
Crumbled remains of life 
Ground to dust by the unrelenting ocean
Walking barefoot on tiny shards of glass

Categories: wayside, adventure, introspection, nature, sea,
Form: Prose Poetry

By the Wayside

Remember third grade,
When the raciest book the teacher 
read out loud
Was Wayside School Stories?
Maybe because my mom was all for 
wholesome stories,
But hearing those books was a 
weird guilty pleasure.
It was my first introduction to the 
bizarre:
The Gothic novel of children's 
stories.
Sometimes people disappeared into 
alternate dimensions,
But more importantly, Bebe Gunn 
was having troubles with

Categories: wayside, childhood, lost love, loveteacher,
Form: Free verse