The Final Turn
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I’ll admit
I’ve
Thought
About it
The moment where
The ground underneath my feet
Reverses
My life
An old film strip
Burning up after the last breath
With the weight
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Categories:
hardtop, car, death,
Form: Free verse
Under the Mystery
...The streets are vacant under the mystery rain gently falling as I gaze into the cold blue depth of a fluorescence-lit street
Languishing…
Under blaring lamps, the hardtop black flickers wet fro...
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Categories:
hardtop, adventure, allah, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
From Betty Boop To Poetry Soup
...In '29 -- Betty Boop
In '34 -- Marx Bros. 'Duck Soup'
In '39 -- Benny Goodman's Jazz Group
In '49 -- Chevrolet Hardtop Coupe
In '59 -- the Hula Hoop
In '69 -- Joplin, Hendrix,...
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Categories:
hardtop, history, humorous,
Form: Monorhyme
Toothache
...`Toothache
The festering morsel
Festooned in buccal cavity
Triumphant against the crown
A queen in pearly finery
Whose decaying beauty
Succumbs to the invader
In eroded submission
With...
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Categories:
hardtop, pain,
Form: Blank verse
My Beautiful Rusty Body
...Mint condition - brand new transmission and loaded. I used to fit that description.
You should've seen me brand new. My owner had the only key to my ignition.
But one day I ...
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Categories:
hardtop, car,
Form: Acrostic
The Car I Remember Best
...The Car I Remember Best
By Elton Camp
Over the years, many cars have come and gone
The one I recall with most detail I didn’t own
I thought it was the most beautiful I’d ever seen
But that...
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Categories:
hardtop, nostalgia, car, beautiful, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme