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Best Horsepower Poems

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Premium Member Horsepower Makes Us Proud
Rednecks make parts in the basement 
They've mastered piston emplacement
They'll bore out a block
To be bigger than stock
Displacement has no replacement

Author's note.  A really...

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Categories: horsepower, home, house, humor, identity,
Form: Limerick



The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently...

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Categories: horsepower, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Horses Are Heroes
I've always admired 
horses
and I guess I most surely 
always will
No legend without em' 
complete
The unsung heroes of 
any heroic battle

Pony, colt, filly or mare
ride...

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Categories: horsepower, horse
Form: Quatorzain
Premium Member The Un-Beetable Bug
THE UN-BEETABLE BUG


Simplicity, elasticity, beauty in the thirties,
not like some sedans, ugly and beastly

This popular car and it's history from the past,
from it's World War...

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Categories: horsepower, age, art, beauty, car,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member From Wren's They Came
The Head Line News read, Houston under Martial Law,
Stay indoors, do not panic, and do not go out, under any
Cause!
I’m not sure from wrens’ they...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horsepower, fantasy, gothic, halloween, holiday,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member It Seems To Me
History unfolds reflective evolution
as culture nutrition values inform economic health.

Just as currency only carries values humans supply
as a society of economic transactors
so my own paltry...

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Categories: horsepower, earth, language, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Eco Friendly Vehicles
ECO FRIENDLY VEHICLES

There are  problems with eco-friendly  - among others
It is friendly for us but not for our brothers.
A rich man  often...

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Categories: horsepower, philosophy
Form: Didactic
The Studebaker Salesman
Hello madam, and welcome to our place of business.
Is there any way that I can be of assistance?
We have a huge selection of cars both...

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Categories: horsepower, business, history, nostalgia, car,
Form: Rhyme
Fiat 500
New Fiats can be seen on the roads of our nation
since they took the reins of the Chrysler Corporation.
One hundred and eight horsepower does not...

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Categories: horsepower, business, car,
Form: Rhyme
Critter Power
Forget all you’ve heard about horsepower

Hamsters can take you six miles per hour

  Running a wheel neath the hood

  No oil needed, all...

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Categories: horsepower, animals, funny
Form: Limerick
Nuthin' Else To Do
It was a Tuesday night and dull boredom had set in
‘ thought I heard my ol’ car say: “Take us for a spin!
Go pickup Bobby...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horsepower, adventure, best friend, car,
Form: Rhyme
Delight of the Drummer Boy
"...Maybe they would allow me to dance,
perhaps they would leave me to dance;
let me ask the landlords,
If they would permit me to dance.."

Forty horsepower!
Sixty horsepower!!
The...

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Categories: horsepower, art, culture, dance,
Form: Ode
Formula Won
Untimed
Untamed
In the face of a thousand horsepower
Up rises the man of the hour
His passion peaked 
His focus tweaked
Raw
Pure
He spins and loops
Whirlpools each lap
Egos over rev
An...

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Categories: horsepower, hero, sports,
Form: Rhyme
The Pegasus' Derby
racing along the crescent rainbow track into the human race
a starting gate drawn on a diagonal perspective to innovation
breaking the colour spectrum like a powerful...

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Categories: horsepower, horse, imagination, inspirational, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Wagon
The Wagon

                       The...

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Categories: horsepower, best friend, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs