Best On The Side Poems

On the Side
                     Authored by Chuck Keys


On the side of the road it lay,
broken, forgotten and sorrowful sad.

I passed it by, laughing with my friends,
with...

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nicotine
isn't clean
water's the cleanliness
causing some loneliness
use to be dirty
clean after thirty...

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Oh how it struck me so..
the dog on the side of the road..

You have all been enslaved by self gain and judgement...
Why waste time?
What is sane?
and Who's to blame?
Oh how It struck me so!
The dog on the side of the road..

Look into those eyes...the feeling...

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Err on the side of caution,
For often it seems to me,
If something is overly hard to do,
Perhaps it's not meant to be.

If there are too many precautions,
More than seems normal to you,
It may be better to re-think your plans,
For what's done you cannot un-do.

Sometimes things...

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Many people swim in an empty pool and decide that pools are not fun. Is that really a true statement? Will time end? If you can not see the time, is it really there?
If everyone ran away from problem solving, would anything be resolved? Look...

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If caution is the side on which 
You are supposed to err,
It’s possible to overdo it,
So you should beware.

It may be better letting time
Or nature take its course
And then you wouldn’t suffer from
Annoyance or remorse.

There is a line to draw between
What’s prudent and what’s dumb,
But...

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A car's pulled over on the road 
And hidden by the door,
A child lets out an urgent stream
Within the traffic's roar.

The parent gets him back inside,
Their motions chop-chop-chop, 
The passersby relieved to have
Avoided such a stop.

We've done this for our grandson
When there's been a pressing...

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A man sat upside down on the side ways wall surrounded by paintings of his distorted pain and his unconscious pessimistic mind. 
Cracks in the walls, cracks in his mind. 
2 sides of the coin, 2 sides of his face and mind. 
Wabbajack man.
 He...

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On the side of the road
I lay in a box
I wake up every morning to rummage for food
I stand on the sidewalk beggging and entertaining for a small scrap of change
The only safe haven for me is the public buildings it's warm and safe there
I...

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you had a girl, but i was young and didn't care.
never knew the meaning of breaking up a happy home.
i thought one day ill have you on my own.
a fool in love.
driving around with another girl man thinking that was cool.
believing his lies, in his...

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A BIT ON THE  SIDE


They strolled together with wistful strides, 
their marriage wows a step behind, 
and all the absent qualities in tow, 
the private mirth, the soundless words,

neither saw the storm in the winds, 
that could rustle leaves in their lives, 
neither felt...

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(aka CAN NEVER BE UNSAID)



i’ve lived my life so far
with one simple guiding adage
it’s served me well i think
though i’ll never truly know

these days it seems somehow
to weigh heaviest on my heart
and seems to hinder more than serve
leaving me to rethink face value

you see i've...

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I have lived on the side for so long
A life full of drudgery and misery
A victim of unfortunate birth  
To a lowly stock of humanity 
And to that soulless contraption of a fatherland 
Destined to scrape along 
On my daily shamed trajectory 
Of the...

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oh, hold me and stifle me
and make me be still
let me rail and 
tell and tell and tell;
then gently say
"it will be o.k."

be a friend and look
at me in a goodly way
when i err on the side
of being an idiot
act as if you do not
see...

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Staying in a neighborhood 
Where locals live and shop
Gives a taste of life beyond
Where all the tourist buses stop.

Discovering a small cafe
And breakfasting outside 
Opens up a little window
To a place where folks reside.

Of course, the highlights beckon -
The museums and the parks,
The monuments and...

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