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Geodesic Road Tripping
Like a four hundred mile runway,
The flat prairies of Nebraska
Hurl you east toward the Missouri...
And the green, rolling hills of Iowa.
In the rearview mirror,
The setting sun seems to bounce on the horizon
Like a red-orange ball of incandescent glory,
Painting the western sky in psychedelic colors --
Growing darker with the velvet dusk
as it metamorphoses into night.
The car shakes with the wind
And the whoosh of eighteen wheelers
as they hog the road.
Mile after mile, Mcadam blacktop unwinds before you --
While by purest luck, the radio blares out
"On The Road Again,"
And Willie Nelson is there in the dark car with you.
You hear Whitman's America singing
As that lonely car overflows
with all the people you've known and loved,
And the poets and writers who shaped your aspirations
and crafted your dreams,
You suspend reality -- and roll on
Toward morning.
Previously published in Poetry Repair Shop, 2003
Jim Dunlap is a 7 year past Newsletter Editor for the
Des Moines Area Writers' Network, Senior Contributing
Editor to the POETS' PORCH and Book Editor for The New
Pleiades Poetry Anthology (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada/
Las Vegas, NV, USA). Jim is co-author (with 5 others)
of Five Gates of Poetry, author of "Entwined In
Wonder" (by himself), and co-author (with 3 others),
of The MysticEast Poetry Anthology (India). He has
been in the Writers' Digest top 100 in three
categories, and in Who's Who In America, and in Who's
Who In The World; and in the the Directory of American
Poets and Fiction Writers. He has appeared in numerous
small press magazines to date, including PLAINSONGS,
POTPOURRI, CANDELABRUM (Wisbech, England), the
PARIS/ATLANTIC (Paris, France), and online in UNLIKELY
STORIES, POETRY REPAIRSHOP, INDIE JOURNAL and POEMS
NIEDERNGASSE (Switzerland). Jim is also webmaster for
the anti-genocide website, Voices For Africa.
Voices for Africa
Mindful of Poetry
Jim Dunlap
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