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Best Pileup Poems

Below are the all-time best Pileup poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of pileup poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Never Argue With a 3-Year-Old
My three-year-old put his hand on his chin 
like he was mulling over something troubling
I said, "Son, look at this place; what a mess!" 
“But,...

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Categories: pileup, child, humorous, kid,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member What's Up With Poetry
Poetry is about faith, a song, and sometimes a checkup.
It’s about that girl on the other side you want to link up. 

Poetry is about...

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Categories: pileup, break up, courage, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Airplane
Surely it does... but don't call me Shirley
“Airplane” a rapid-fire spoof, you remember surely
Leslie Nielsen was the pilot
A real sexual joke pileup 
A riot for...

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Categories: pileup, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Crash Gordon
You ran a red light and I did yell,
for you are a clown, "So go to hell,"
but while I was screaming
and my blood was teeming,
you...

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© George Aul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pileup, car,
Form: Limerick
Parking In Detroit
Lyrics are sung to the music of 
David Bowie’s “Panic in Detroit”


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Categories: pileup, anxiety, city, song,
Form: Lyric



To Feel Your Pain
To feel your pain 
means sensing the endless and senseless energy drain

Moving forward doesn't happen with ease
sometimes it's more like a painful disease

or like a...

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Categories: pileup, angst, hope, philosophy, sympathy,
Form: Rhyme
Traffic In Memphis
Just jumping in.
Everything comes to a halt.
The first few moments don't seem as bad.
Depending on length.
The line of cars.
In a sea of metal 
Something wow...

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Categories: pileup, black african american, life,
Form: Free verse
Wild Slide
Her hormones fled the coop on scalding tires.
Motel maids were her sisters, bars her occupation,
a place to work on the aerobics of hope.
He was a...

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Categories: pileup, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Twelve Pains of Christmas
On the first day of Christmas,
the holiday gave to me,
a headache bigger than Texas.

On the second day of Christmas,
the holiday pain for me,
was two sore...

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Categories: pileup, christmas, funny, holiday, poems,
Form: Free verse
Old and Classic
I am getting old now, I can only turn over
They can’t get me to run, but I not all done.
My valves are leaking, I often...

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Categories: pileup, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Holy Mess
The tip of the fur tree sticks out like a sore candle

Barely visible an angel drowns in a pileup of presents 

Fortunately wrappers and cards...

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Categories: pileup, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Sesame Balanja
Over a bridge
and past a bright green meadow
appeared a little squidge
an angry monstrous short little fellow

"Come, Come my Sesame Balanja,
Follow me to my CrossjaKanga!"

He jumped...

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Categories: pileup, dark, voice,
Form: Verse
The Wild Slide
Her hormones fled the coop on scalding tires.
Motel maids were her sisters, bars her occupation,
a place to work on the aerobics of hope.
He was a...

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Categories: pileup, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wild Seeds
Her hormones fled the coop on scalding tires.
Motel maids were her sisters, bars her occupation,
a place to work on the aerobics of hope.

He was a...

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Categories: pileup, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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