Getting Closer



Getting Closer

Lost the signal,
Under that damn bridge again.
It was a bad ass song,
That I haven’t heard since I don’t know when.

The logic does make sense,
But we can’t really know.
So forward at full speed,
And hope that she doesn’t blow.

All the shapely figures,
Silhouettes in the setting sun.
They don’t raise their heads anymore,
But they still look like fun.

Closer to the next wave,
More distance from all the bad vibes.
That sure made a lot of dust,
To still be able to see clear skies.

1/28/19
Joe McLaughlin

About this poem

This was a poem about looking back on my life and the adventure that it was up to that point. It refers to there being more in years in the past than there are in the future.

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Written on January 28, 2019

Submitted by JoseCanUC on September 17, 2023

Modified by JoseCanUC on September 17, 2023

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Scheme XAXA XBXB XCXC XXXX XC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 534
Words 118
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 2

Joe McLaughlin

Raised on a small farm outside of a small town in Texas, I was no stranger to work. It is this work ethic that has propelled my professional success but there is this other side of me. The side that deeply thinks about things. The side with an imagination and a desire to use my hands for more than just brute physical labor. more…

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