Best Tailpipes Poems
A Young Stacker of FirewoodMy father’s timber array arrived on an
overloaded Diamond Reo flatbed.
It dumped oak scraps, leafless dead-woods,
inspiring last metamorphosis to
warming fires come winter’s weather.
Empty, truck leaves then heaves
into a scrubby alley
squeezing by barely.
With its narrow fit made
it disappearing...
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Categories:
tailpipes, life, work,
Form:
Free verse
WatcherVoices drifting between the branches
Swept away by the evening chill
Hurried footsteps and loved ones pulled close
First light from fires kindled
Smoke slowly curling into the darkening sky
Loud clangs from vendors closing up shop
Exhaust from tailpipes fills the frigid air
Puff, puff, puff….
Greedily...
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Categories:
tailpipes, imagery, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Illusion Is FadingMy illusion is fading as life slips away
Like a snake sheds its skin that gets lost though each day
Still begins with a sunrise, of course! I awake,
Life's past lessons less certain, though I may yet break
Bread with friends (the survivors I'm able to reach!)
But does...
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Categories:
tailpipes, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
The FutureWorshippers of the shallow, whorish Hollywood stars
Imitators of the gangster rapper’s hateful raves
They drive small vibrating Japanese cars, with big tailpipes
Unconscious to reality, caught in the dropout’s trance
Fatherless children stumbling behind cell phoned welfare queens
Products of rainbow partying, painted teenage hookers
The indiscriminate lives of the...
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Categories:
tailpipes, life, social,
Form:
Free verse