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secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

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0 posted 2016-09-28 10:26 PM

       Lost Highway

Only fog and memories
walk this road
that even Time forgot
as it quietly morphs
(reclaimed) to forest floor,
tunneled and framed
by ancient furtive oaks,
broken stone walls, and
fleeting split-rail remnants
of man's audacious follies
and schemes to delimit
     Nature,
beckoning all to seek
its lonely, secret
  ‘vanishing point’
in the spectral Autumn
    mist.

      --- b. e. adams (Remembering old Rt. 1, Maine)

Ari Squire
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Posts 488
In The Phallus Lane

1 posted 2016-09-29 12:27 PM

Really enjoyed your poetry Bruce. You piqued my curiosity about "Old Rt. 1, in Maine, so I looked it up and found it to have a very interesting history.

My source for anyone's perusal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_1_in_Maine

Loving Linny Jean is poetry.

secondhanddreampoet
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2 posted 2016-09-29 12:17 PM

Like Route 66 ... there are parts of old Route 1 that were abandoned to morph back into wilderness ...

Jack Napes
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since 2014-02-22

Posts 290
Phaedra's Womb

3 posted 2016-09-29 09:37 PM

Never been to Maine, but I've traveled the length of old 66 more than once. The first time was in '71. Even small planes would land and fuel up along some of the desert stretches.

Touch, but don't look

[This message has been edited by Jack Napes (09-29-2016 11:03 PM).]

secondhanddreampoet
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4 posted 2016-10-01 10:54 AM

Both 1 and 66 are nostalgic highways.

JamesMichael
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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2016-10-08 10:19 PM

this is special...james

secondhanddreampoet
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6 posted 2016-10-09 09:39 AM

thanks, JM!

DaysofView
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since 2014-04-01

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Just A Slice Of The Pie

7 posted 2016-10-09 11:38 PM

I'd rather look at trees than a big old highway but we have to have both I guess. Good poem though!

I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather...not like the passengers screaming in the back of his car.

secondhanddreampoet
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8 posted 2016-10-10 10:08 AM

Thanks D.O.V. !

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

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So. El Monte, California

9 posted 2016-10-14 05:23 AM

Never been to Maine but it sounds like a plcae I'd like to see.

secondhanddreampoet
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10 posted 2016-10-14 08:04 AM

It is, Ida !

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