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Jalopies Poems - Poems about Jalopies


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...Eventualities don't apply to me (I can dream) no matter their presence in the mirrors of reality Always one step ahead though the shrinking distance haunts like an early frost - t......

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Categories: jalopies, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Definite Maybe
...Do you want to have a baby? I'll give you a definite maybe. Babies can cry and scream so loud. Three in one house can make a small crowd. I hope I'm not clearly misunder......

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Categories: jalopies, baby, silly,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Way Things Really Were
...O, the nights we couldn't stop sweating the porch no cooler than our rooms Enervated, we drove down to the lake where 'shore patrol' lowered the boom All those appliances that too often fai......

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Categories: jalopies, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Junkyard Cat
...Junkyard cat escaping every human climbing over Plymouths and Dodges, Hiding in rusty jalopies that used to carry Grandpas to potential grandma’s for courting. Junkyard cat slinking in and......

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Categories: jalopies, animal, cat,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jalopies
...An old man in Buffalo Got toes of unwanted glow He kicked the banger On a cliff hanger Waited for a truck to tow Antique or dear jalopy The bloke was on ecstasy Smoked gum from......

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Categories: jalopies, fun,
Form: Limerick



Care For Mother Earth and Her Everything
...Spare a thought For buffaloes, bulls and bears groaning, mourning, starving Under your collar don’t blow hot Making rivers and rodents sad, carving Space and time you don’t own Encroaching on......

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Categories: jalopies, poems,
Form: Free verse
America, 1933
...They are conflicted haunted images from black and white photos of America 1933, when there was no place left to run. It was the hunger of people lined up, scraps of food ladled out, the street ki......

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Categories: jalopies, character, culture, history, life,
Form: Narrative
Mini Dubai
...My town nicknamed, ‘Mini Dubai’, burgeoned and branched on the bank of Kanoli canal like a tamarind seed. Now the silvered canal sprawls on its death bed. Busy pedestrians walk down an ancie......

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Categories: jalopies, city,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Storm
...The Storm Black rimmed skies, Clouds with no lining of silver, Gusts of wind, Trees protesting, With a dance on the horizon. Rumblings of thunder, Flashes of lightening, Animals and human......

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Categories: jalopies, humorous, rain, sky, sun,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Noxious Noises
...I must say that in my four score years I've done it all and seen it all, But in the autumn of my life, noxious noises drive me up the wall! I like the soothing sound of most music and birds trillin......

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Categories: jalopies, funny, me, music, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Hometown
...I was sittin' on the porch today reminiscin' about this and that, And my hometown came to mind where I grew up as a feckless brat! Life was lived at a slower pace it seemed, back in that place and ......

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Categories: jalopies, childhood, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Joy Ridin'
...Fer the life of me I jes' can't figger kids out today! With their automobiles they make a most tawdry display! Seems their jalopies with geegaws and gadgets they adorn. (My '37 Ford played "Mary H......

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Categories: jalopies, funnyme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Sure Had It Rough!
...My grandkids gather around my hearth and think it's so great, To listen to tales of my youth that to them I love to relate. They sit with mouths agape and with attentive ear, As I tell them how it......

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Categories: jalopies, nostalgiaold, old,
Form: Rhyme

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