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Carpool Poems - Poems about Carpool

August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

...August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a frea...
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Categories: carpool, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Freeway

...Why did they name it a freeway to begin with
Honestly it doubles your chances of getting hit
Drunk drivers and those with road rage throwing fits
Constantly driving defensively to avoid a near mis...
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Categories: carpool, car,
Form: Rhyme



Eurotunnel Travel

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While sharing the ride
and not a lot to see or do
seated side by side
in the Chunnel queue
with commuters driving home
I took a look at the view
carpool tunnel vision syndrome
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Categories: carpool, car, england, french, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberClimate Change

...The charts and graphs of doom are steep.
Our worries pile up in a heap -  
Into our brains it starts to seep - 
Indeed, we are in trouble deep.

Will he move fast or slowly creep,
As he, at bay...
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Categories: carpool, earth, environment, heaven, natural
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTrue of Country Magic

...Oft’ the person remembered by a song.
Short trip to the base, in the come along.

Don’t know much about the driver,
(We were bound with military fiber…)

but the cool-cassette-high in t...
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Categories: carpool, memory, music,
Form: Couplet



Summer's Over: Back To School

...Finally, Summer's over and the kids are back in school
I'm not a bad mother, but after driving through carpool,
I'll have seven hours, five days a week, spent in peace
No yelling, "Behave!"  In si...
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Categories: carpool, school,
Form: Rhyme

The Heights of the Ohio

...Ever heard of the beautiful Ohio?
The writer in me wants you to know -
River life has its anecdotes
My granny, a German immigrant,
mastered that river in dinghy boats
to attend a Lutheran church...
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Categories: carpool, 11th grade, adventure, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

People Talk

...Kristin says he wasn’t good enough for me. 
Kristin tells Andrew she loves him in front of me. 
Kristin wishes Andrew was more thoughtful. 
Kristin says nobody is ever enough, anyways.

Katie sa...
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Categories: carpool, best friend, break up,
Form: Free verse

A Light Year To Cleanse the Earth 2

...Continued one of the angelic aliens in earth’s close orbit,
‘Thus we’re given this task by our CEO at universe Milkit.
All you need to plant the flora umpteen
Until we create a fresh ozone layer c...
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Categories: carpool, angel, appreciation, art,
Form: Couplet

So You Think Gangs Are Cool

...So, you think gangs are cool,
Are you really that big a fool,
Did I not see you at a rally to make women your equal?
And did you not support a carpool,
To keep children safe from a possible ghoul...
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Categories: carpool, abuse, addiction, anger, betrayal,
Form: Political Verse

About Dead People

...Respect dead people and never sleep with them
Don't expect call backs from the dead
Smoking, drinking and deceased in trunks of cars
Are bad habits and probably against the law in Alabama

It is...
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Categories: carpool, abuse, appreciation, death, judgement,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberReflection On An Aging Nomad

...I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
h...
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Categories: carpool, age, health, integrity, relationship,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberThe Teacher Scrambled Out of Bed

...Before the crack of dawn
  Quickly washes, throws her clothes on

Hustles downstairs in a second or two
  In a rush: Instant coffee will have to do

With love she makes breakfasts for her other...
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Categories: carpool, feelings, hurt, student, teacher,
Form: Rhyme

A Movement

...I woke up it was a sunny day
'Come for breakfast' mom would say,
I freshened up, then made my bed
Put away the books that I had read,
Just another day at school
My ride was here, my friends carp...
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Categories: carpool, abuse, dark, horror, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Finding Me

...I’m from toy cars and mismatched Barbie shoes.
I’m from bike races down the one road where no unpadded limb was safe.
I’m from a Sunday carpool and Tom Thumb slushies in Florala.
I’m from the twan...
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Categories: carpool, appreciation, i am,
Form: Free verse

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