Best Taillights Poems

The year was 1978, 
my car, once again on the fritz;
I stuck out my thumb going to and from work 
hoping to catch a hitch.

After...

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He stood on the corner
as she drove on by
Watching her taillights,
a tear in his eye

Feeling the sadness
that grew in his heart
But knew it was best
that...

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Ice crystals form on a once dusty road
Taillights shining brightly amongst the smoke
The old tall oak bruised but still standing strong
A pickled blackened heart no...

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Sitting on the soft cushion seat
Start of turtle movement
The advert on the bus
Is the only catchy appeal
The drumming of the engine
The grunting of the taxi
Dusk...

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Down dusty roads by ways,
Hidden trails spreading wide.
I've been seeking freedoms,
Blazing liberty on the back,
Of my Harley Davidson two,
Wheeling masterpiece.
 Along our nations country side.
I'm...

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There was a moment 
in time and space no distance 
can erase when she was standing 
on an island in the middle 
of Times Square,...

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The Living God has moved on 
Jesus in his memory, cherry taillights
Receding down a long desert highway
Jesus’ words were, and still are, 
The only true...

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We said goodbye two years ago today -
I'll never forget the way I felt that day.
I couldn't breathe when the door closed between us
And your...

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Light gleaming, bouncing to and fro
Raybans and Coppertone Sport
Man's best friend ridin' shotgun
Radio cranked...volume 10, what else!
Trunk filled to the brim
Pabst Blue Ribbon gettin' frosty
Scarf...

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Henry stood his rocky ground
     as he watched her board the bus,
Not one time did she look back
   ...

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It doesn’t seem like that long ago I was heading to the park
Meet some friends and play until well after dark
It was a special time...

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This is for the first time when I saw you standing there
with your curly, brown hair hung over the stare in your eyes
that made me...

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It is hunting season in the mist of beauty and delight
In the thick of the trees, sounds of shooting, deer run in fright
Some grow weak...

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Out my invalid’s window I see the hills
wrapped in a crochet of evening fog
Red taillights wink at me as people prepare
to go home at end...

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To fall behind
To come up short
Smudge my line
Or worse, abort

I cannot see
Too much to fathom.
A thick debris
Of many passions

One track mind
Obsessive kind
Can’t switch lanes 
For...

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when you walked out the sky even cried
pouring down over me
as i stood on that lonely piece of road
watching the blur of your taillights
you've just...

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I woke up rested this morning
And kinda excited too
Sending out text notifications to
A few friends for a review.
One in particular from so far away
I spoke...

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I kept its funnel-cloud eyes.
I kept the inner workings.
Kept the plastic furniture 
while it cracked
into multidimensional bones.
I kept the whir of its mirroring mind.

A shutter...

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