Ode to the Street Sweeper.......

[Flybye]

That is the extent of my poeticalness this evening......just that one line as I turned the corner today and discovered that the city had fired up a street sweeper in place of the plow...........


Have at it ladies...........
Keep adding on and we'll see how many lines we can get...



Ode to the Street Sweeper











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[Lifesgreat]

Oh great sweeper, though in my town you suck (it's a vacuum)
You keep my bike free of sharp things that get stuck




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[mimitabby]

Oh great sweeper, though in my town you suck (it's a vacuum)
You keep my bike free of sharp things that get stuck




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As I skid through gravel in the seedy part of town,
It is your presence that I would really like to be around

[Jolt]

As I skid through gravel in the seedy part of town,
It is your presence that I would really like to be around

Ridding the streets of all manner of trash,
Sand and other stuff that could cause me to crash.

[Geonz]

You're swirling the debris and sweeping everything
And since you're not a snowplow, YOU ARE A SIGN OF SPRING!!!

[OakLeaf]

Street sweeper haiku

Roaring down the street
Debris replaced by noises
And then by smoothness

[yellow]

Street sweeper? Wha? Flybye, you can't tell me you didn't have plows this week, cuz we did (and might get them tomorrow, too). I've not seen a hint of a sweeper yet.

(My route today has most definitely NOT been visited by any street sweeper, road crew, or good samaritan. Dodged boulders large and small--including ones rolling off the hillside as I rode by, moose poo, and was stopped from going further by snow.)

[Flybye]

Street sweeper? Wha? Flybye, you can't tell me you didn't have plows this week, cuz we did (and might get them tomorrow, too). I've not seen a hint of a sweeper yet.

(My route today has most definitely NOT been visited by any street sweeper, road crew, or good samaritan. Dodged boulders large and small--including ones rolling off the hillside as I rode by, moose poo, and was stopped from going further by snow.)

Oh, Yellow! What part of Utah are you in? I am sorry!!!! We have been COLD at night, 20-30ish range, but we have had enough days above freezing to melt the snow from everywhere but the shady areas that had large drifts. I went north last night - about 50 miles or so - and they still had snow in the fields. Yesterday we saw 50 degrees for a couple of hours. I am surprised that you still have snow. Every time I have been in Utah in the spring you have us beat by 8-10 degrees. Sorry - Spring is coming!! Promise.

Well, I guess I should come clean, too. We have snow in the forecast this week. I doubt it will stay, though.

[Tuckervill]

When the street sweeper ran the red light
It gave me a terrible fright
He ran into my Beetle
Now I'm on pins and needles
Whenever I'm riding my bike


Karen

[Tri Girl]

Although you don't visit me, here in my town
You turn many a frown upside down
Your sweeping and cleaning make debris disappear
While ridding worrying bikers of tire shredding fears



Yikes, Karen! Maybe I'm glad we don't have a street sweeper here.

[lph]

A little free-form here:

plowing through the snow
slipping sideways down the ice
spirit sagging, but
a tiny spark of hope is still there
that..
Yes! That sweet black stripe!

Street cleaners, I LOVE YOU!

[Trek420]

No parking on this side
Every other Friday 3-5
Streetsweepers, though I've not seen you before
Thanks for this date I won't get "door'ed"

[Melalvai]

If a man is called to be a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets...so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well." -Martin Luther King Jr.