Best Garage Sale Poems

The residents will soon be moving.
There is lots of miscellaneous and
still useable items.
Some old growth redwoods 
and fishable seas, some 
breathable air
and unpolluted shores,
bargains galore so
don't hesitate
to make an offer.
All prices are negotiable
and everything must go.
Saturday, from 9-5, please,
no earlies.
Earth, the nearest cross-street
is Milky Way....

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1221 Boiling Weather Drive
First customer gets a free beehive
With purchase ten bones or more
Food, drinks, desserts galore
Porcelain hitchhiker needs a ride...

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Up at dawn...
Jackets on...
8am is coming fast...
I must hurry...can't be last.
I checked the ad's...I checked it twice...
I made my list...it took half the night.
I've planned my route...
I have no doubt...it will bring me victory!
I  cleaned the car...made lot's of room,
for all the treasures I'll load in soon.
Here we are...the first big sale...
only $1.00 for...

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For sale a bunch of fine unused words, many misspelled
Poet can’t uses them; mind is on strike, the pen has been stilled

These words never used for they never quite seemed to fit
Got them online; advertisement said they were a complete poetry kit

Can’t send them back because I did use a few; the remainder unused
Selling at...

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I once had some poems to unveil
 So I  decided to have a garage sale
 so I put up a sign
  to all those inclined
  to peruse my poems in  detail

  But rain fell pitta  patter
  and some people  did scatter
   to shelter from the...

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At a Garage Sale

Wish my golf energy was tough enough
To keep me from ending up in the rough
Each time I am heading for the green
And caught in some trap in between.

Great golf game is what I had in mind,
But when I ended up so far behind
Thought came to me I was about to croak 
Each...

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I’m having a garage sale
Though I don’t have a garage.
Come check out all my offerings – 
You’ll see a strange montage.

I have similes and metaphors
So old that they’re clichés.
There are sentences and verses
Budding writers can rephrase.

From a stack of nouns quite towering
Are so many you can choose;
Mix and match with all my adjectives – 
You...

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paper            typewriters        books and dictionaries
pens             pencils                desk
coffee cups



come on down
we're...

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Artfully arranged articles:
Books beside bedding,
Clocks, camera, china cups clinking,
Dishes, decanters, dining damask,
Electronics
Facing ferns,
Gardening gear.   Gaudy
Handwoven hats hide
Inkstained
Jute.   Junk jewelry,
Kitchenware, kite kits,
Linens laying lopsided.
Marbles, magazines, menswear,
Nice needlework, necklaces,
Ornaments,
Pots, pans, pretty plants put parallel.
Quality quite
Reasonable.   Rickrack, ribbons,
Sewing sack spilling
Thread, thimbles.   Toys
Underneath umbrellas.
Video variety
Waiting watchers.
Xylophone
Yields
Zing....

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Buy one, get one free!
Waste no time, come and see!

If you are looking for a metaphor
please check the green box at the front door.

Similes are in a stack, take all you want
Hiding under the wizard's hat.

Acrostic words, there are very few
But there are many old and new haiku.

Love phrases are stacked sky high
Wasted tears stacked...

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I've got to clean out these loaded ancient poetry files
What will I sell first maybe I'll just stack them in big pile

I know then I'll sort them_separate by topic
Remove ones about child sex abuse as if by magic  

Now the world is safer place for children to play
I'll get busy seeing what's left to...

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Another poetry jumble sale,
of numerous funny tales.

Pay a little shining coin 
 take your haiku with joy.

I have plenty of free-verse,
you can buy yours and leave the rest

Sonnets would have given me much gains
but writing them are not without the pains

Couplets are on high demand,
I have given them some new re-brand

I have an old clerihew,
And...

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In my garage I have posted
Many things have been sold
Pans, trays, pillows I have hosted
Love and hatred same old, same old

New things they ask of me
Do they pay well my fee
To stay up all night I guarantee
To sell my soul, no, that is for free

Books and jewelry are on the shelves
Displaying beauty among ourselves
Eyes roam...

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There’s quite a sale in my garage,
A poet’s plethoran montage
Of metaphors and similes
And verses guaranteed to please.

A nest of nouns, a vat of verbs;
Some quotes quite perfect for your blurbs.
A carton filled with stale clichés,
Which budding writers can rephrase.

I’ve baskets filled with parts of speech
Left from the days I used to teach.
So many sentences to...

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Old worn things
sprawled in heaps of disarray
Lamps and Chippendale chairs,
faded boudoir cabinets,
forgotten wedding gift kitchen wares
Clothes fashioned in yesteryears,
teacups full of evaporated tears
Nostalgic tears of joy,
tears of sadness
Items bearing times of hardship,
some marked with easy living felt tips
Garage sale ...
barter away the past
Selling off old memories,
wistful times that didn't last
Old well-kept things
laid out in an...

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