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Best Tailgate Poems

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


Premium Member Tailgate
As the butterfly
Hovers near a peach blossom
Its shadow follows...

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Categories: tailgate, happiness, inspirational, life, nature,
Form: Haiku



Tailgate Party
Poet:  Ken Jordan
Poem:  Tailgate Party
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan
written:  January/2015


It's my 
tailgate party

you're welcome 
to come -

Music's blasting,
and
We
Popp'in 
Champagne,

around
a hot

Webber Grill
In the 
parking lot -

Got my 
game day apron 
on,

Cook'n:

Oak wood Q'd
Baby Back 
Ribs,

Slow grilled 
and
smoked....

Brushed
in 
Sweet...

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© Ken Jordan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tailgate, food, football, happy,
Form: Prose
Game Day
Mighty Ducks win the game
Pass the ball perfect the play
There's so much riding on your fame
Men clad in armor win the day

The crowds are grumbling...

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Categories: tailgate, football,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Things That Annoy Me
I reckon you could call me an old curmudgeon but that's alright!
I've been around four score and three and I have earned that right!
There are...

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Categories: tailgate, how i feel, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
My Children Are Mexicans
out in the county and up the highway
anger hangs like lost voodoo over Miami
dances on bumperstickers
floats on airwaves
scars faces with perpetual glares
colors perceptions darkly
alters moods...

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Categories: tailgate, social, children, son, old,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Creating a New You
Written: August 28, 2023
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If you don't covet where you live, my friend,
Imagine a fitter home, a place to mend,
A sanctuary where dreams come alive,
A space...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tailgate, analogy, appreciation, change, character,
Form: Rhyme
A Wedding During Football Season
A Wedding During Football Season

By Elton Camp

It has often wisely been said
Football season’s no time to wed

Let’s make one thing quite clear
It’s only four months...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tailgate, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Driving School
License
Learn it
Earn it

Road signs
Traffic's
Graphics

Parking 101
Rehearse
Reverse

Text messages
Checking
Wrecking
 
Back Off!
Tailgate
Jail bait

Officer on duty
Patrol
Control


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Contest for March of the Footles-- Sponsored by Timothy Hicks
3/3/16...

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Categories: tailgate, car, people, teen, teenage,
Form: Footle
Premium Member I Am Bored With Boors
I looked up the word 'boor' in my Funk n' Wagnalls to verify the truth.
I found that, "A 'boor' is one who's ill-bred, crude and...

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Categories: tailgate, funnyme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Barnstorming Heart
49 years past; a puppy was bought, picked up out of his pen on a pet shop floor;
he had honey brown eyes & an inquisitive...

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Categories: tailgate, adventure, memory, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Ready Set Go
Ready set go, pick yourself up off of that floor
Because you probably drank to much the night before
You have an alcohol problem you can't ignore

Put...

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© Mike Grant  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tailgate, 10th grade, anxiety, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just -- Trust Me - 1st Half Text Plus Full Audio
Here's the deal, folks...
   This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this...

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Categories: tailgate, car, funny, humor,
Form: Narrative
Southern Tales -
He drops the tailgate on that old GMC truck
using it as a makeshift workbench
He tinkers with an old icemaker 
determined to bring it back to...

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Categories: tailgate, blessing, culture, family, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Joe
Another season has started and he's ready to go.
For the Bobwhite Quail is this hunters foe.
He's one beautiful dog,but he's not for show,
for not many...

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Categories: tailgate, friendship, happiness, dog, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Road Trip
Let’s take a
Road trip
Together.

I want to go
Far away,
Maybe
Even to
Outer space
Where we can
Race the stars
Across
The night sky-
I’ll fly you
Around
On clouds,
Drift soft
On winds
Or burrow
Deep in the
Ground-
A landmark
Unto...

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© Alex Grimm  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tailgate, adventure, fear, racism, spoken
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things