Best Cars Poems

I did not learn to drive until my twenties.
My two poor kids I hauled inside a wagon!
That wagon creaked when filled with groceries!
Fed up, I said, “My kids I won’t be draggin’!” 

I got my license at age twenty-four.
We didn’t have much money, and I...

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My '90 Dodge Daytona sat
Broken down
On Horseblock Road.

We hitchhiked east
To Kelly’s induction,
Embarrassingly tardy.

The trucks were leaving
Ashes were spreading
And 16 people stood
Broken down
Outside the service.

Sean, Laura and I approached.
We made 19
Peers in formal wear
Feuding for space
Between 2 cars. Packed with living friends,
We found our way back...

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Chasing Cars 3


You can drown in smoke
In huge breaths
Sucked in on the choke 

Of ever wishing air

And you can lay yourself bare
Your soul on the concrete
Spread before the stare 

Of every loving heart

Its not that I see
Not the pain in me
Not the hammer that crashes...

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The ice swirled around in a dangerous way
Tossing cars willy nilly into each other and concrete bridges
I marveled at her confidence and power
Hoping I was not going to slide into the two wrecked cars in front of me
She gave me a tiny spin, showing me...

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one day, I saw a car going by
with my fourteen-year-old self in the driver's seat.
he wasn't even the one driving the car. 
it was hate that was driving the car,
fueling the car,
steering the car,
because the car was a vessel for the thoughts crammed in that...

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The cars we have number twenty-five.
One is shaped like a royal bee hive.
Two are groovy, the blue one can certainly jive!
The red monster truck seems to be alive.
One is automatic and can self-propel-drive.
Jogger came by and asked my Cousin Chive,
Why are all these cars parked...

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The car must become a freethinker
Case someone it might greatly injure
It clearly must steer
And brake and change gear
And give other bad drivers the finger...

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Hmmm self driving cars... kinda scary
It'll take some getting used to for the very wary
It'll certainly take trust
Open mindedness is a must
Won't be first in line, seems kinda hairy


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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If you see
   a man opens
     the car door 
       for a woman ....
         He certainly has
        ...

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“Chasing Ghosts in Cars” 

Like automata
we walk inside 
winding up the stairs

it’s all mechanical
the romance 
programmed

by steep degrees 
in the 
well-routined

we can walk 
through walls
anywhere

to look out 
our windows 
towards the better view

each cell in the body
and mind renewed
we expurgate

the misplaced 
misconceptions 
of others, of...

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My love cars





My first rendezvous 
was Honda Civic iVtec
black automatic,
1799 cc, 4 cylinders 
130 bhp, torque 172Nm,
Stole my heart 
speed bound no limits,
Left me for a new owner.

Shunning loneliness,
Magnetised by 
his macho shape 
and pearl white colour,
Graceful eye to eye
luxurious costume,
I let his lusty belt
embrace...

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Mr. Ford, why did you make 
The cars which cause such deep heartache?...

From MOTs to punctured tyre,
Was that a gun, or did I misfire?

Parking tickets, yellow lines;
Wheelclamps, countless crushing fines;

Insurance costs, CCTV
Congestion Charge for you and me;

Broken mirrors, cracks and scrapes-
Stolen cars, false number plates;

Big...

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Imagine if all cars grown tomatoes on the roof

                                   Blueberry juice...

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A Curtain of Rain
By Valerie D. Staton

A curtain of rain
Fell from graphite colored sky…
Cars are floating by...

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just dots upon 
the greenwich sky
swinging london 
from the air

with eyes wide shut
and riding high
across the thames
'where tourists dare'....

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