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Best Garbage Truck Poems

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Garbage Truck
One habit to which I adhere
I clean out my Ford once a year
Back seat yet to fill
Keep truckin’ until
I’m no longer able to steer...

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Categories: garbage truck, funny,
Form: Limerick



The Garbage Truck
As we stop, I pull out my jar of Vic's vapor rub 
I put some up my nostrils, this job you cannot love 
But it...

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Categories: garbage truck, funny, satire, song-family, family,
Form: ABC
The Garbage Truck
On Mondays when I babysit,
There's one thing that's a certain hit - 
A visit from the garbage truck
(Unless the need for naptime's struck).

We hear the...

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Categories: garbage truck, grandchild,
Form: Rhyme
Prayer
One more morning,after one more night,
One more thanks for keeping things right,
One prayer to bed,one as you rise,
Good morning God,thanks for another sun rise,
Prayer is...

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Categories: garbage truck, faith, religion, uplifting, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lost In the Cold
When pebbles knead the holes in my shoes
These torn eyes writhe from  my orphan blues,
A lost soul quivering in the cold...
I feel alone, a...

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Categories: garbage truck, absence, child, home,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member My Own Rain Dance
Plants swaying, beautiful sky, softest feeling
Clouds crusted in white with gray centers
An unexpected warmth to the air this morning.
Any hope of rain? I peer at...

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Categories: garbage truck, native american, rain,
Form: Light Verse
Two Scavengers In a Truck and Two Beautiful People In a Mercedes
Two Scavengers in a Truck,
Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes

At the stoplight waiting for the light
nine a.m. downtown San Francisco
a bright yellow garbage truck
with two...

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Categories: garbage truck, adventure, suicide, red,
Form: Classicism
The Screen Door
Mornings are beautiful at the screen door!
Trees swaying with the gentle breeze
Birds are chirping their hello
Noise of a busy street - steady zoom of cars

Apartment...

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Categories: garbage truck, emotions, feelings, happiness, remember,
Form: Narrative
Wheelie Bin Fun
Our wheelie bin gives me a grin,
When I put my brother in,
I push him hard from the rear,
He yells out loud, " NO rubbish here,"
We...

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Categories: garbage truck, children, funny,
Form: Rhyme
A Portrait
The restless night had ended
abruptly. Caught between dreams and
consciousness, the town was arching towards
the sprinkled light of dawn. A perpetual regularity 
reigned over the dusty...

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Categories: garbage truck, aubade, death, humanity, life,
Form: Concrete
Dust Bunny
Dust bunny, dust bunny I see you as you
make your escape under the sofa hoping that
the big, noisy, red contraption that I push around
won't fit...

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Categories: garbage truck, hilarious, horror, life, truth,
Form: Free verse
The Garbage Man
for under 10$ an hourly wage
you too can be the lucky one
who rides around on the back of a pungent & filthy green
garbage truck for...

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Categories: garbage truck, life, people, people,
Form: Free verse
Where's My Data
Here I am again computer; it’s another day with me
It’s too bad you don’t have eyes so you could really see

It is actually morning, the...

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Categories: garbage truck, computer, humor,
Form: Couplet
Won Problem
Care free driving down the lain, 
sites of yesteryear refrain, 
Children playing inn there yards, 
Tattered houses somewhat scarred. 
  
Traveling inn gay apparel,...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: garbage truck, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
I Am a Plain Jane
I am a plain Jane,
a non-descriptive woman
who lives on Dreary Lane,
my world revolves around 
my kitty called Pretty who
was adopted from the lost and found,
I...

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Categories: garbage truck, cat, hurt, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs