Long Camaro Poems

Image of Grandparents Country Home from my family collection

The Two Drivers In My Life

In my younger years ...
I got to know the souls of my parent's worlds,
were as distant as our known solar system.
Mom was...

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I did not learn to drive until my twenties.
My two poor kids I hauled inside a wagon!
That wagon creaked when filled with groceries!
Fed up, I said, “My kids I won’t be draggin’!” 

I got my...

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driving our kids west . . .
our past life vanishing in
the rear view mirror

I don’t recall many details about our move to California. My husband’s job had transferred him two states over to California where...

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That keeps repeating over and over again
For twenty two years your face is all I have seen
did medication and therapy for all the emotional swings but nothing helped me

Because all the anger and rage is...

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As of time pass
when I was young
there another man
whom wanted to date me

As one day I was out side
this same man drove up
parked along the curb
He was in his Camaro   

than he hollered...

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Young and single, just got a job in a neighbour town,
Thought I’d buy a flashy car so I could get around,
My boyfriend at the time said that I should get a Camaro,
It was new, orange...

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My first car was an '87 Camaro.
That car was fast and sharp as an arrow.
I was sixteen and in high school.
I loved it, but boy was it a piece of stool.

I had it for a...

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A pleasant fall day
	out for a drive
a few errands to run
	in warm afternoon

traffic was light
	and the weather was good
and I thought that
	everything was going good

then with my ear
	I heard a strange sound
wasn't sure what was
	like...

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Picture this. It is a gorgeous summer day.
The grass is green, the birds are singing. 
You are a fifteen-year-old boy
whose parents have gone on vacation.
Your uncle is coming to watch you in three hours.
Until then...

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She walked pass his locker with a face full of flirt,
wearing red lipstick and a short black mini-skirt-
She seemed to need more than what he could give her,
then laughed at him and gave him the...

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It really happens, you know
The swiftness of heart you read about in love poems
Or romance novels peddling beauty and brawn on glossy covers
Stacked deep on the shelves of abandoned bookstores

Countless cliches coming to life as...

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Learned to drive in 1980; it became a must.
The car I bought soon broke down; “Another One Bites the Dust!”

With two kids by ‘81 - plus work.  My tired bones!
“Start Me Up” kept being...

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My son-in-law took my 15-year-old granddaughter for a driving lesson. 
She has a permit so she needed an adult.
On the way back they stopped for ice cream, and she wanted to eat hers
so my son-in-law...

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I am from country living and bareback riding
But you wouldn't know that 'cause i keep hiding
I look like I'm gothic but i really don't bite
Trust me I'm not that big of a fright

I am from...

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I never even drove till I was maybe twenty-five,
but then I learned, and so we bought a car for me to drive.

For fifteen hundred dollars, I got a crap sports car
with color kind of pink....

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Choked us up,
as love is being victimized
and burned at the stake.
Take me back to your place,
and I'll love you all night long,
and you'll feel my wrath
in the pleasure.
Let's drive in the Camaro,
with the top down,
and...

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It debuted in the sixties, and was an immediate star.
This model was within the genus of the family sports car.
The first generation was among the sportiest in its day.
This automobile was manufactured by Chevrolet.

With a...

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A Poet's Dozen II-First Date
Sponsor: Silent One


hallways before class
eye contact, chills up my spine
first date, Friday night

Exhilarated, I stare out the window looking for your old blue camaro,
I sway my long hair to the side,...

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free ride on the highway
crying all along inside
listening 
to the violent ring
so she turns the radio up
just as loud as she can stand
knowing that she just forfeited
the world's greatest man

and all the words that she...

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When a wig maker saw my wife's hair, he adored it.
He wanted it and said that he'd pay top dollar for it.
So I cut me wife's hair off while she was asleep.
She walked out the...

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No the world is not for me. 
it's for suburban hitlers 
who indulge in protocol wars 
and middle class wives 
in camaro jeeps. 
  
No the world is not for me 
but for trendy young...

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THIS CHEVY CAMARO, IS MORE THAN A DREAM. 
IT'S AMERICA'S FAVORITE MUSCLE MACHINE. 

IT'S NOT FOR THOSE FAINT OF HART. 
IT'S CREATED FOR THOSE WHO APPRECIATE ART. 

FROM COAST TO COAST, ACROSS THIS LAND. 
THE...

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I thought you were my honey 

but you were in for the money

I sent you to those classes

I bought your ugly glasses

I gave you that Camaro

You shot me with an arrow

I met your Kin

You broke...

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WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO
CARS THESE DAYS?
THEY SURE AREN'T BUILT
THE SAME AS YESTERDAYS

WHAT YOU SEE ON THE ROAD
IS NOTHING MORE THAN A PLASTIC MOLD
THERE IS NO WAY TO 
COMPARE TO THE OLD

THEY USED TO HAVE CLASS
A...

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A Sunken Pink Camaro

Tropical fish.
 swim in and out of the windows
 of a sunken pink Camaro.
I dive, leaving a rainbow stream
 of billowing  bubbles

Above on
the timber pier, someone
with a piano accordion
plays chiming French...

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