Red
The stop signs
(two)
and traffic lights
(too many to count)
between his house and hers were
(considered by him to be)
impediments to the
far too few minutes and hours
that they spent together
each day
(or week or month)
but the same red
lights and signs
on his way home were like
magnets that could not keep him
(from having to leave)
but kept him closer
to her for brief
but wonderful
pauses
(in time)
—
copyright 2012 Steven Harz
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Steven Harz was the 2013 winner of the international People’s Poetry Contest and is a three-time winner of The Iron Writer Challenge. Steve still writes poetry, but now it rhymes and is put to music – either acoustic with a Martin or electric with a Gretsch.
Songwriting influences are: John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, Blze Foley, Jessi Alexander, Tyler Childers, Lori McKenna, Gabe Lee, Luz, Cleto Cordero, Jason Isbell, and of course, Willie and Dolly!
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