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Best Backfires Poems

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Premium Member My Radiator Leaks Or My Exhaust Backfires
Every time I sneeze or cough

Either my radiator leaks or my exhaust backfires!

Shouldn't be a big surprise

It's a definite sign we ain't no young chicken...

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Categories: backfires, humor,
Form: Narrative



Deceit Always Backfires
To caress egos
Hollow minds with muffled hearts
Create fancy sounds,
Resonating deceit, they
Rob their souls of true friendships...

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Categories: backfires, character, friendship, life, people,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Inside V Outside Strategies
When Donald Trump
ran against very Presidential Obama,
that he did not look
or sound like a win/win public sector leader,
or even commit to expanding healthy democracy,
worked well...

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Categories: backfires, america, bullying, business, health,
Form: Political Verse
Two Titans
Yo,
I got two titans,
They be fightin' and rightin' wrongs on the sharp curves of Nashville,
Equipped with expressive brakes,
I mean straight screamin',
Irate with hubcaps from 1993,...

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Categories: backfires, urban, me, me,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Classic Cars Should Not Be Caged
Just the other day I read an article explaining 
that men were working hard on making what became the “car”
Back in 1335, and I was...

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Categories: backfires, car,
Form: Narrative



Friends R Us 4 Us
Friends of heart for us
Are mountains like
And harbors there
Are there
In back-ups
They are us
As backfires life
Where others
Who we are in chase ghosts
In mist
who missed are mass
where...

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Categories: backfires, friend,
Form: I do not know?
Poet Portion
I am paradise when my heart sings with riddles that only understood by the responding heart...
I am the rocket only when my emotions backfires the...

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Categories: backfires, birthday, confidence, freedom, success,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bloomer
red rose ploy seen as 
“bloomer,” blue mood wallflower’s
strategy backfires!


Date posted : 7th February 2021...

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Categories: backfires, art, august, birth, blue,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Cold Start
Cold starting the car on a crisp autumn morning
my Dad wasn't the happiest bloke,
put antifreeze in it, ran the engine, ten minutes
and then he could...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backfires, age, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Unfortunate
It's unfortunate that we keep ending up in the same place
Different trials come about and we end with the same face
It's quite evident the statues...

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Categories: backfires, change, conflict, emotions, journey,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member The Beacon Beckons
Does a banished beacon beckon?
But of course all beacons beckon
But only briefly if not brightly
Though never as boldly as the baritone
Before balancing bagpipes blowing ballads
But...

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Categories: backfires, fantasy, humorous, nonsense, sound,
Form: Alliteration
Better Yet
Everyone on earth has purpose
When that monkey doesn't perform
Life becomes a wild circus

You wake up to an alarm clock
Give up your dreams
Must not have felt...

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© Lynn Dolly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backfires, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Abyss
Beyond the known likes the unknown; 
That, darkened abyss where, 
nothing seem real until it’s experienced.
Tomorrow hides there; 
huddled in a black crevice and ready...

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Categories: backfires, metaphor,
Form: Prose
"i Love You"
I thought it was real,
But yet it was fake,
Oh this love felt so real.
But it was just too late.

Why do people play this,
Like a game,...

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© Eric Urbas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backfires, people, love, people,
Form: I do not know?
Fifty Frames a Second
Farewell to the order, cried in depth, 
A surface skimmed flat stone, 
For sure the past drinks slower breath, 
Cold-cocked and slow deflating; 
When the...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backfires, history, life, nostalgia, autumn,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things