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Dec 2019
5:34am, 5 Dec 2019
15,181 posts
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Serendippily
I really liked that thanks 
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Dec 2019
5:35am, 5 Dec 2019
15,182 posts
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Serendippily
Oo fat fingers
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Dec 2019
6:26am, 5 Dec 2019
43,071 posts
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Diogenes
Running poetry comes in many different metres.
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Dec 2019
8:57am, 5 Dec 2019
31,467 posts
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LindsD
Me too
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Dec 2019
12:35pm, 13 Dec 2019
43,408 posts
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Diogenes
Agraria Road
From the crest of the hill
the view of the cathedral
is quite arresting.
I almost miss seeing
a car ascending
narrowly avoiding apprehension
for driving without due care and attention.
My mind being on higher things.
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Dec 2019
4:48pm, 13 Dec 2019
15,270 posts
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SleighbellsDippily
Agrarian Road
Once the path was clear
But moss and sodden greens
have seeped through stone
The weeds curl round
Where sand once filled
It’s life but smells of death
The car stands forlorn
Paddling in the grass
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Dec 2019
11:57pm, 13 Dec 2019
358 posts
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Presentinator
Appian road
Most ancient of the Roman roads,
the Appian artery runs up the leg of Italy
from heel to knee. For all roads lead to Rome.
Two thousand years stand still
the black basalt blocks.
Hollowed, smoothed and worn
by crash of chariot wheels,
the Legions’ measured stride,
and skittering horses’ hooves.
But now the only sounds:
the tourists' questing step
and rumbling cycle tyres,
and families seeking shade
to rest and picnic in.
On either side, among the pines,
The echoing empty ruins
of long dead Romans' tombs.
From which, with socket eyes
Death views its passing trade.
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Dec 2019
9:34am, 14 Dec 2019
15,281 posts
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SleighbellsDippily
*applauds* You went a bit further afield there
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Dec 2019
9:48am, 14 Dec 2019
31,795 posts
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LindsD
Fab poetry.
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Dec 2019
12:49pm, 14 Dec 2019
360 posts
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Presentinator
That started with two lines:
I'd be so much happier,
On the via Appia
But Diogenes and Dipps excellent works kept creating images of roads and mortality....
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