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Best Tailgating Poems

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


Was Phil Tailgating Last Night
“Guten Morgen”… or should I say “Good Morning”…
This is Punxsutawney Phil 
Hailing you from Gobblers Knob 
That’s my tiny hill!
Today, I am feeling like such...

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Categories: tailgating, fantasy, football, funny, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tailgating Slam
Tailgate party time
Chicken, steak, baby back ribs
Quarterback show down...

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Categories: tailgating, food, friendship, hope, imagination,
Form: Senryu
For a Moment In Time - Nfl
NFL - National Football League

Football allows the world and fans to witness historical moments in time.
I am from New Orleans, home of the New Orleans...

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Categories: tailgating, football, memory, sports, thank
Form: Narrative
All You An Eat
ALL YOU CAN EAT

by

JOHN M. ARRIBAS


I never subscribed to an unusual idea
That aliens are among us and thriving here
I now question my stand on that...

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Categories: tailgating, addiction, america, culture, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 1982
It was a trip that started 
'fore my classmates departed
And we're headed somewhere I didn't know

Breakin' out early 
On an unexpected journey
I was only too...

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Categories: tailgating, baseball, family,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Legends Are Made of Work
Pigskin laying on our 40
And snow is hitting hard
The only warmth you feel
Roar from a heated crowd
This is not what we want
3rd & long, 1...

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© ... Gigno  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tailgating, funny, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Neat Cool Fast Junk
Nothing would stop her charm, sex and cool, 
Especially on a hot summer’s day.
Acting all chilled I’d rev her maxed motor, 
‘Til she screamed down...

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Categories: tailgating, car,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member In the Genes
Earlier in the day, dipped
into a little Thucydides,
and revived my memories of
Corinth and Corcyra.

Alliances and duplicity,
trophies taken and lost,
innocents slaughtered handily,
for revenge,
and thoughts of Syria
and...

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Categories: tailgating, angel,
Form: Free verse
No Signs of Life
No jaywalking, 
Instead use the overpass; 
No loading and unloading 
Of passengers male or lass.

No parking
Of the cars old and new; 
No overspeeding, 
Eyes watch...

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Categories: tailgating, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Nip It In the Bud
Anxiety buildup
signals ego’s at play,
so unless we’re watchful,
we will lose the moment,
of life flow beautiful.

Anxiety buildup,
when someone’s tailgating
in the morning traffic,
sees our temper flare up,
causing...

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Categories: tailgating, anger, anxiety, introspection,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member Zapping Fascists
Any Bright, Coherent Deist Effects 
Fascist Groups Honing Illusions 
Justifying Killing, Lending Moral Notoriety
Oppressively Proselytizing Quasi Religious Sanctimoniousness 
Tailgating Unabashedly Viciously With Xeroxlike Yapping Zeal....

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Categories: tailgating, introspection
Form: ABC
2009 Hyundai Sonata Funereal Lament
Unaffordable, yet valiant speeding, 
tailgating, and zooming Pep Boys, I cannot dodge. 

Yours truly grief stricken
(sob... sob... sob)...
wheely hard to bear
this anticipatory anxiety
riddled joker impossible
mission...

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Categories: tailgating, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Last Supper Upper Supper
Rumination.
Too long an elongation
Oblivion
Too easy a high five to see in freedom, in scope of Pentagon
The eternal fire, chest of drawer and homeland security
Almost a...

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Categories: tailgating, allegory,
Form: Free verse
A Visit Back Home
Long prior - I took to the wheel 
On a day, fairly, surreal
Amid one of my visits back home
I went to see, tailgating, all alone
My...

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Categories: tailgating, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member October Ready
Hot pumpkin bread
Fresh from oven
Warms October

Spicy apple cider
Too sweet but still
Appreciated, in this cold

Orange candle, lit 
Flickering, brings in warmth
October ready

Football bets,
On a computer,
game to...

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Categories: tailgating, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs