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Best Backseat Poems

Below are the all-time best Backseat poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of backseat poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Prosopography In Blue
waiting
with diaper on 
for this woman to get up 
off the kitchen floor and
stop bleeding while a man 
hovers over her with grimace 
and clinched...

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© Ricky Muse  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backseat, poetry,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Call
The Call

For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I...

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Categories: backseat, angst, blessing, courage, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Funeral Urn
“we look for that that does not come and go
it cannot be organic form, subject to decay 
thoughts and beliefs are fickle, how little we...

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Categories: backseat, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Concrete
Chemo Fun
Sitting in the backseat ~ yackety
she drives like
    crackers ~ wackedy
speeding to the movies?
we can’t be late?
Driver ahead asleep at the
 ...

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Categories: backseat, friendship, funny, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Ex-Gay, Part I
My name, it is Reginald,
and I’ve got a story to tell,
some folks, they will not like it,
they’ll cry out,”Go to hell!”

You see my wife beside...

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Categories: backseat, angst, confusion, fear, feelings,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member An Absinthe Eventide
I sauntered in an evening mist
   A midnight's heaven, magic-kissed
      Lamp-lit raindrops pattered, awesome
    ...

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Categories: backseat, adventure, imagery, magic, paris,
Form: Quintilla
The Jaws of Life Could Take Me Home Tonight
Wrestling the wreckage, I'm fading into darkness unknown.
My head is going straight to voicemail, missing calls from home.
These veins are erratically static, strung out on...

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Categories: backseat, abuse, addiction, angst, death
Form: Rhyme
No One Else Exists
No one else exists 

A crowded city street
strolling a narrow sidewalk,
your hand in mine
Pastel neon lights paint the buildings
in soothing colors,
softening sharp edges,
creating a wonderland...

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Categories: backseat, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Roosters Sleep
SILENT ROOSTERS SLEEP

Dads don’t sleep.  They drive over-packed cars, and sip coffee from a thermos cup. Kids in backseat mull over grandma’s home ~...

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Categories: backseat, family, memory, travel,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Geese, Goslings and the Bridge
Geese, Goslings and the Bridge

Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous.  Such was the...

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Categories: backseat, bird, family,
Form: Metrical Tale
Undecided
Your heart is tardy,
hardly used except to whisper 
words of courteous affection.

Passion takes a backseat with your
carefully selected styles of self-protection.
'I love you' hardly ever...

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Categories: backseat, confusionfear,
Form: Verse
With the Kids
Another boring lost night.
Sipping on warm beers outside the local store.
Trying to stay outta the cops sight.

Cars gather stereos blasting in the 
parking lot.
Local kids...

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Categories: backseat, angst, life, people, social
Form: I do not know?
Why I Do Not Care About Copyright
I don`t care at all what you do with my poems....

you can steal them,laugh at them or cut them up to make blackmail letters for...

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Categories: backseat, fantasy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Telling a Story
Girl you treat me bad and dont give it a second thought.
Run around on me with every other man.
look so fine with new clothes for...

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Categories: backseat, angst, life, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eating Religion At Midnight
Word Lyric for Music #1

“Eating Religion at Midnight”

Saw Big Edith at the laundry mat,
Says she’s got a bad case of stage fright,
But she’s big and...

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Categories: backseat, loneliness,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs