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Jalopies
Jalopies Poems - Poems about Jalopies
Discontinued?
...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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Craig Cornish
Categories:
jalopies,
life,
Form:
Free verse
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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David Crandall
Categories:
jalopies,
baby, silly,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
jalopies,
memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
jalopies,
animal, cat,
Form:
Free verse
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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Kai Michael Neumann
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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John Sensele
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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Steve Zak
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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Fabiyas M V
Categories:
jalopies,
city,
Form:
Free verse
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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Sandison Jumbo
Categories:
jalopies,
humorous, rain, sky, sun,
Form:
Narrative
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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Robert L. Hinshaw
Categories:
jalopies,
funny, me, music, sound,
Form:
Rhyme
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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©
Robert L. Hinshaw
Categories:
jalopies,
childhood, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Robert L. Hinshaw
Categories:
jalopies,
funnyme, me,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Robert L. Hinshaw
Categories:
jalopies,
nostalgiaold, old,
Form:
Rhyme