Best Buggy Poems

Zero to a hundred
    Smoke between the ears
    An amygdala doing donuts
    Simply changing gears







*punch-drunk: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
  Punch Buggy: a game consisting of punching a person 
  when a VW Beetle is seen...

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By Elton Camp

North on Highway Forty-Three 
Up into the state of Tennessee

Ethridge is the name of the place
A colony of the Amish embrace

Wide gravel lanes to the side
Is where the buggies can ride

Out of the speeding traffic lane
Since cars, the Plain Folk disdain

A few drivers...

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There's a mosquito
Drinking from my mojito.
The Sun has risen....

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Possession's nine-tenths of "the law,"
Is what some pundits say
Implying "weak" own nothing real
And brute "strength" wins the day.

But if one looks at "biomass,"
It's insects that have won,
For ALL Earth's mammals are outweighed!
My, logic can be fun!

And insect's also might survive
Our next atomic war,
Intelligence, a passing...

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Whoa!
stop the wagon, bucko
I wanna get off
who invented this
ride goin' nowhere?

no difference 'tween me
and the coach I'm riding 
I'm no Cinderella 
and it ain't no pumpkin.
we're bumping along together 

think I'll crawl, stumble, walk
'stead of riding a passenger 
in that safe ol' buggy
anymore...

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Flutter, flutter, in the sky,
Watch the clouds go floating by.
See that thing a way up high?
Teeny, weeny, butterfly!

Crawling, crawling, down and down,
Plants and pebbles all around.
Queen of all in golden crown,
Many ants deep underground!

Hurry, scurry, little thieves,
Quickly running under leaves.
Legs so fast no one believes,
See...

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I saw a buggy at the antique store today, its beauty unsurpassed!
I couldn't help but sit and muse awhile about its esoteric past.
It was shiny black with roll-up curtains to fend the stormy weather.
Its lone seat was hand-tooled in the finest of cowhide leather!

I pictured...

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Was once an addict, not talking about drugs
Was addicted to hobbies, like drawing people's mugs
It paid me well
Without parallel
Most of my family thought I was totally bugs...

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God gave Adam the right to name all the creatures of the world.
On yesterday, 12/02/2016, a little bug appeared on our lamp table.
I did not know his name, so I gave him one and called him Buggy.

When I saw Buggy, my first thought was that...

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Automobile prohibitive maintenance costs
pitches me pitifully begging for alms
lamenting dog forsaken
melon collie unpleasant circumstances
pleading with outstretched palms
disgraced to beg, perhaps donate
major organ and/or entire body

to ease vehicular qualms
aha... methinks the missus could pose
as ventriloquist after mortician embalms
these lovely bones, but, hmm...
even then post mortem
agitation most...

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Buggy Summer

    Mosquitos, bugs
    Small, tiny, mini, macro
    fly, crawl, bite, hug
    causing itching, me flinching.
   Summer in buggy grammar.

  
    08/31/21


'A Brian Strand!1095

Contest by Brian Strand...

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Alliterative adjectives
Are like poetic additives
That rearrange raw rhythmic rhyme
So sonnets sound more-so sublime.

“Aggrieved aggressors,” “Angry Aunts”
“Outraged oppressors,” “Haunted haunts”
Are all alliterative bits
That prod poor poems into hits.

Consider how this very verse
Without alliteration would be worse.
For con-sequential consonants
Create quaint quotes of consequence....

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in spicy Madras
mosquitoes target bite ass
night and day harass!
I applied some sticky cream
to deter their evil scheme!

early dawn herd buzz,
million flights of buggy curse,
park on my reverse!
my cream from castor oil farm,
trapped them like a magic charm!

they struggled to free
As I giggled with sheer glee
till...

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In the soon to be future
they built an A.T.V.
and sent it to Ganymede.
It was ordered to go 
here and there,
to dig and scan - it obeyed.

Time passed, 
samples were sent back
for analysis.
Eventually NASA diminished,
there were staff depletions.
SpaceX had other projects.

The unit sensed
that it had been...

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Buzzing above me
Whizzing through shadowy flight
Stabbing fangs in skin
Causing welts and itchy bites
Festering plots slay these pests





A Buggy Tanka Contest
Sponsored by: M. L. Kiser
August 21, 2021

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