Best Carport Poems

...Well it's the reason for tears on your face
Well it's the reason for no embrace
Well it's the reason for no sunlite skies

Well it's the reason for your frown
It's the reason you are so down
It......

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...tree frogs are singing
to orange-black tinted clouds
against purple sky

set in the foreground
an A-Frame rooftop peeks out
between long-leaf pines

further off due south
thunder still rumbl......

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...AN EVENT THAT CHANGED ME

I checked one morning just to see
Had I parked my car and not hit a tree
I found it in the carport where it should be
No broken headlights and it was dent free

The o......

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...- - - An observation of true events - - - 
  - - (insatiable person's search) - - 

Aiming to embellish my identity 
Rural persona branches further 
Tight city existence not meant for me 
Open ......

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...It was the center of the night 
and just off the carport, 
forty thousand frogs sang 
a round that cradled the dreams 
of the neighborhood, the town, 
and just then, my life. 

I sat, then sto......

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...Time To Cook the Rolls 

“Honey, turn on the oven to 350; the movie is starting!”

Soupy Sales is kicking back with June Taylor at Studio 50.
He is flirting with her leggy dancers as they feed 
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...It is one of those times
Surely hard to do this rhyme
With plenty of things going wrong
Just trying to get by and along
Cell phone and computer break
Try to write, screen goes haywire and I take......

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...Word Toccata in A Major 

Jaundiced ’53 Cadillac in my sweetheart’s carport.
She leaves the hole keys inside the empty fish bowl.
Hidden in her trunk are a set of golf clubs with knife wounds;
H......

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...Several days of chilly spring weather had been messin' with the dogwood, but Sunday 
mornin' dawned Georgia warm and the dogwood smiled. Steamin' mugs in hand, Big Mama's 
babies took their places ......

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...
When I was just a young girl, long ago,
     for me, the grand debut of spring became
my special mission in the month of March-
     to see a robin redbreast was my game.

A Robin redbreas......

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...I stood still on a path
Snow glaring in the sun
Blinding me to hear
Icicles dripping
Lost for a moment
I can see us at the carport
Working together
The edges now flapping in the wind
Our laug......

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...a bottle of red tea on the opposite end
while a television glows out and into the concave
space of horshoe-shaped tables made for twenty
blue chairs and white linen cloth
and the old man wih a lo......

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...carport door opens
chihuahuas sniff frosty air....
scents compel new hikes   ......

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...A slender black spot
On my bedroom door at night
Became a crawler.

Around the carport,
Up and down the hall peeking,
The lightning man ran.

Hideous tree men...
Shadows like bad guys reachi......

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...I watched tiny rivers form in my carport as the heavy rain inundated the dry ground. 
Her breaths from inside sounded like a convict in a death chamber. 
I watched small debris flow rapidly downstr......

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