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BITUMEN MAN poem in selection of poems on various topics and themes, including America, Japan, Malawi and Guantanamo.
This BITUMEN MAN poem is part of the Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. The collection includes school poems, city poems, nature poems, war poems, cancer poems, death poems, and, additionally, other poems, assorted poems on various topics and themes, this being one of those other poems. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness. |
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short poems |
school poems |
city poems |
nature poems |
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war poems |
cancer poems |
death poems |
other poems |
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Paperback Book or US $5 PDF file |
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The road stubbles toes with blood; Hot bitumen runs, where cars surge past Tire-tramp and piston march, tires of rolling anthracite, Their windows black blank one-way glass. They lay tar here: the flame burns In flares of sun, the workers Sweat, swear and shovel with a scrape of rust. The cars blast past, they are going Somewhere, somewhere, nowhere. Gone. Grass seed clogs tar silence. Air throbs: there shimmer out of the haze Of short horizons where the road melts in mirage Four riders: the fevered illusion hardens To goggled reality and a glitter of chrome Which javelins with sunlight. The world boils to thunder then they are Gone. Lance light still purples in thirst eyes. |
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May be photocopied for classroom use |
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