Coattails Poems | Examples

Wake up and hear the silence

How long do you think
you can ride the coattails
of blissful ignorance?

Isn't it flagrantly obvious that
you are skating on thin ice...
and equally evident that
you're living on borrowed time?

How long do you think
you can get away with avoiding
the elephant in the room?

Have I been the unjaded enabler
whilst my silence should have screamed
to you louder than any multitude of decibels?



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

if

if you're going to
ride on someone's coattails
go big or go home



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Why Would Anyone Buy A Tesla And A MAGA Hat

Why Would Anyone Buy A Tesla And A MAGA Hat

Why would anyone patronize Elon Muck?
Muck rode the coattails of his friend Donald Duck
Muck and Duck went up the hill
To serve us a bitter pill
Their fascism has left the country horror-struck

Muck's shaking of the tree, and kills the forest
His cleaning of the house affects the poorest
He's slashing a sword at regimes
And sending our country downstream
Muck pulls puppets strings, and Duck's the daffiest

connie pachecho

2/16/25

Hold On Tightly Bob and Wheel

Hold on,
don't you dare let me go;
From sunset until dawn
caught in the undertow;
I'm all thawing passion;

Tightly,
paradise is fleeting;
Savor that melt gently
the Sun will be riding
the Moon's coattails quickly;

Don't fall,
I may have a rough bounce;
Playing with that eight ball
a star with a sly pounce,
believe for the long-haul.

Ghost Moon

Have you seen
the ghost moon?
It rides the coattails
of that more solid rock.

It alone is the real living one,
the dead moon is but a shadow.

Be up and seeking
in the misty dawn of a hot summer
when the heavens are an ethereal drape
over a floating mirage.

See that Luna twin
rise
its wedding train
trailing along
an aisle of fading stars,

That is the moon
few see;
that one lives on.

It waits for the vows made
between earth and sky
to be one day
acknowledged by all.

Sure Nuff Gotta Be the Reel

From far and wide.
To see the
Big Island Rattlers
Verses
The Desert Snears
Alot of planning
Across sport negotiations
Stuff to say in conversation
Nothing's ever been like
This before.
From riding someone's coattails
To individual dominance
Secure the worm
and cast the rod
there really jumping tonight
Tune the band
Rent the hall
We call this one
a humdinger
Say, did you see the beautiful
Smiling face
She think she's pick that right one
You know that special one let's
Just wait and see
Bayshore special
And a Desert Delight
Time for talking
Is whining low
The hype men
Getting a taste for crow
Tell everybody
Like I know
It's getting down
Tonight!

Sure Nuff Gotta Be the Reel

From far and wide.
To see the
Big Island Rattlers
Verses
The Desert Snears
Alot of planning
Across sport negotiations
Stuff to say in conversation
Nothing's ever been like
This before.
From riding someone's coattails
To individual dominance
Secure the worm
and cast the rod
there really jumping tonight
Tune the band
Rent the hall
We call this one
a humdinger
Say, did you see the beautiful
Smiling face
She think she's pick that right one
You know that special one let's
Just wait and see
Bayshore special
And a Desert Delight
Time for talking
Is whining low
The hype men
Getting a taste for crow
Tell everybody
Like I know
It's getting down
Tonight!

Sure Nuff Gotta Be the Reel

From far and wide.
To see the
Big Island Rattlers
Verses
The Desert Snears
Alot of planning
Across sport negotiations
Stuff to say in conversation
Nothing's ever been like
This before.
From riding someone's coattails
To individual dominance
Secure the worm
and cast the rod
there really jumping tonight
Tune the band
Rent the hall
We call this one
a humdinger
Say, did you see the beautiful
Smiling face
She think she's pick that right one
You know that special one let's
Just wait and see
Bayshore special
And a Desert Delight
Time for talking
Is whining low
The hype men
Getting a taste for crow
Tell everybody
Like I know
It's getting down
Tonight!

Sure Nuff Gotta Be the Reel

From far and wide.
To see the
Big Island Rattlers
Verses
The Desert Snears
Alot of planning
Across sport negotiations
Stuff to say in conversation
Nothing's ever been like
This before.
From riding someone's coattails
To individual dominance
Secure the worm
and cast the rod
there really jumping tonight
Tune the band
Rent the hall
We call this one
a humdinger
Say, did you see the beautiful
Smiling face
She think she's pick that right one
You know that special one let's
Just wait and see
Bayshore special
And a Desert Delight
Time for talking
Is whining low
The hype men
Getting a taste for crow
Tell everybody
Like I know
It's getting down
Tonight!

Sure Nuff Gotta Be the Reel

From far and wide.
To see the
Big Island Rattlers
Verses
The Desert Snears
Alot of planning
Across sport negotiations
Stuff to say in conversation
Nothing's ever been like
This before.
From riding someone's coattails
To individual dominance
Secure the worm
and cast the rod
there really jumping tonight
Tune the band
Rent the hall
We call this one
a humdinger
Say, did you see the beautiful
Smiling face
She think she's pick that right one
You know that special one let's
Just wait and see
Bayshore special
And a Desert Delight
Time for talking
Is whining low
The hype men
Getting a taste for crow
Tell everybody
Like I know
It's getting down
Tonight!

Sure Nuff Gotta Be the Reel

From far and wide.
To see the
Big Island Rattlers
Verses
The Desert Snears
Alot of planning
Across sport negotiations
Stuff to say in conversation
Nothing's ever been like
This before.
From riding someone's coattails
To individual dominance
Secure the worm
and cast the rod
there really jumping tonight
Tune the band
Rent the hall
We call this one
a humdinger
Say, did you see the beautiful
Smiling face
She think she's pick that right one
You know that special one let's
Just wait and see
Bayshore special
And a Desert Delight
Time for talking
Is whining low
The hype men
Getting a taste for crow
Tell everybody
Like I know
It's getting down
Tonight!

Sure Nuff Gotta Be the Reel

From far and wide.
To see the
Big Island Rattlers
Verses
The Desert Snears
Alot of planning
Across sport negotiations
Stuff to say in conversation
Nothing's ever been like
This before.
From riding someone's coattails
To individual dominance
Secure the worm
and cast the rod
there really jumping tonight
Tune the band
Rent the hall
We call this one
a humdinger
Say, did you see the beautiful
Smiling face
She think she's pick that right one
You know that special one let's
Just wait and see
Bayshore special
And a Desert Delight
Time for talking
Is whining low
The hype men
Getting a taste for crow
Tell everybody
Like I know
It's getting down
Tonight!

Joke and Prayer - In Reverse Order

I
 Lord, without You, what is time?
 Over and over, Seconds may drag like days 
Revealing relativity, time is not a thing
Deliver me from vanity, "All is vanity," wrote Solomon, who asked You for wisdom 

II (joke recycling business)
Honesty is the best policy - only for our enemies to follow

NOTE:
My joke was lost this morning (thank u, & I forgive u, Cyberspace Monster). My additional prayer was lost just now. I wanted to say how God saw my hands in praise for miracles I needed; He saw pure hands uplifted, only because I hang on to the coattails of His Dear Son, Jesus. He sees all our faces & hands with Grace through The Lambs Sacrifice, hallelujah. Amen in Jesus' mighty, love-ly, Name

One With the Universe

the morning
quiet as a prayer
stood breathless
before me

intoxicating
in all its modesty
inspiring
its wondrous silence

the world asleep
even the sun
slow to rise
stretching time

and so i lingered
at one with the universe
on the coattails of summer
waiting for a sign from you



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on November 7, 2021

Puppet Free of Strings

the frailty of human nature
to wonder where this all can lead

truth best captured in the present
no place more perfect than its now

riding the coattails of fantasy
candied kisses in clear mint sky

longing in conjured dreamy state
ethereal in its summoned whimsy

scattered figments of imagination
there then gone they never happened



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on September 28, 2021

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