Best Braked Poems

It was December Christmas eve, and it was snowing outside
Kids were making snowmen and some boys had made a slide 
Our eight year old daughter Suzie went out to play with her friend Jill 
My wife said" Wrap up well Suzie , you don't want...

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Two hundred mile an hour they say
a Fireblade screams along its way
but when alas, the rider’s Ray
the Fireblade went a different way.

It sped down Chester bypass quick
for Raymond gave it quite some stick
but at a hundred, fifty plus
just one mistake will make you cuss.

So when...

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One moment she was teasing him. He turned
his head. Sweet eyes that twinkled testified
that she adored him. Then his stomach churned!
A deer appeared from the forest wild-eyed.

He braked the car and swerved. A brilliant light
from headlights streamed upon the startled doe
which, swallowed up by fate...

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It's early morning and a message just came in...
Reached out for my phone without a pause to think...

Turns out to be a video clip of a white family saloon car..
Somewhere, some place on some undetermined highway..

This white car was moving rather sedately among a few...

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After hearing from Brick over the phone saying he needed a lift, Bill cradled the phone, adjusted his shoulder holster, slipped on his jacket and carefully donned his beloved Stetson. He skipped down the stairs to the mini parking lot where he recently paid to...

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Ol' Nellie Bramble; she loved to drink
She never washed and boy she did stink
In every bar in town, she'd cause a scene
And her rich language was quite obscene.

She spent many a night in a police cell
And all night long she'd scream and yell
She'd cuss and...

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Looking back in life I've made so many wrong turns
Sped up when I should've braked
In this environment I've learned to discern
Between who's walk is real, or fake

It's the little things that hurt, not the abundance 
but rather the lack of,
genuine actions speak louder than words
Especially...

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Never I felt so alone, as this night
that I lie here in fright           
Passing on
Unabashed- unatoned
miles from home-  THEY'RE GONE!
Empty….scattered…..Strawn

Shouldn't have run that red light, it was wrong
Now my family's gone
Souls have flown
with a...

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A symphony of joy raced through the
Hospital hallway 

Mom in a wheelchair holding her first daughter Born after 2 boys!
Dad alongside grinning like he struck gold!

Driving home!

Just minutes from the hospital Dad 
Braked to a stop!
He spotted a wild dandelion patch shining bright!
Mom was in...

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Four, six, or seventeen tulip buds grinning. Of course not on a salt marsh. Leave that alone. Misted aromas of ancestral graves should be cared for not dug but if a slug us in power then a lemon woman could do much damage to lochs,...

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4/8/17


Across the land
There was a man
Whose journey had just began
And due to a decision that was bad
He lost all that he ever had
While feeling his most prized plan
Slip through the palm of his hand
Faster than sand

He was briefly sad and mad
But then became glad
When he...

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i just shoulda not jumped in front of dat trukkkk....joke sent to me..

saw it happen going to work one morning,
 guy jumped in front of a speeding bus in his little car,
 and braked for the amber light,
......kerlunkkkkkkkkkk.....writeorfff

If ya drivin in ya car,
 ya dumb...

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Driving down on Hwy.72 on my usual Sunday excursion,
the rain was pelting down in thin lines of curtains,
was listening to and enjoying my favorite radio station,
doing the 65 mph speed limit not wanting to get a citation,

Watching the road I spotted something out of the...

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There is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun, 
barred by spindle trees and the last 
of summer's brindled reeds 
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilling pond.
.
 
Damp leaves hide a pathway to the lilies 
where green silky weeds sink...

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Garages Bullies
I worked in a Ford garage in Rochdale. There were some real bar stewards there. Two in particular bullied me. They stuck together and picked on me, name calling, pushing me about, messing with my head, going through my stuff in my bag. I...

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