Long Tractor trailer Poems

A frown 'pon his face_ bills, bills, 
                           ...

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Oh, yes, angels are real ...

Late fall of 1974, just after Halloween -
I was driving home from prep school one Friday afternoon,
After a long week of intense studies and soccer ...
On Interstate 295 between Yarmouth...

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*Nathan's Song

Nathan loved to be playin' baseball
Talk with his friends everytime they'd call
He would rather be doing for others---any day.
Nathan loved the lake in the Summer,
Skiing in winter--one slope or other.
He was full of life...

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October 8, 2013 at 2:34pm

Best Seat In The House

Sitting here at the kitchen table this morning
drinking the blackest of coffee letting the
most amazing cool breeze envelope me through
the back window I forget for a moment...

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“... The closeness of the place and the heat of the climate, 
        added to the number in the ship which was so crowded 
   ...

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Five Arab Men


In the dead of night, asleep in my bed
Suddenly, upon a hill as bright as day
A vision before me, or am I misled

On this asphalt road,to the left, a tractor trailer stands
Waiting as...

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Travel Time  Tropics Trip  Tepid Temperature  Tourist Town 
Tunnel Toll Ticket Taker Taxi Token Transit Trail Transport Truck 
Tractor Trailer Train Track Trouble Test Terror Turf Tribal Territory 
Tender Trap  Tricky...

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She was married to a squirrel named Earl.
And Earl was later buried along side her
grave.She wore a mud pack upon her face.
To cover up all the horrifying disgrace.
And when she walked across the town.A
tractor trailer...

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Alone in the zone while i'm cruising down the highway, duck and dodge D.O.T cause they 
never 
see it my way, steering clutched as i down shift three gears 80,000 thousand on my back no...

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Well twenty whales met ten goldfish at rush hour on the A9 but the heavily congested B85 was chewing on some straw that had fallen off a bridge. Hay deepens a drag from a nomadic...

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Because of a jackknifed tractor-trailer up ahead,
vehicles on this highway has been stopped cold dead.
The radio traffic report came on a little late.
That is the reason for my ignominious fate.
I had to use the highway...

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A tractor trailer with slats and moos
pulls up at a city slaughterhouse.
The driver pulls the wrong lever 

and two thousand pounds 
of trotting cattle go for an easy 
ramble down the street. 

Cop cars follow...

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First motion is practiced at sunrise
With devout courage and humble strength,
Unobserved, unguided, and alone.

First motion glides over the accent.
Some say swan dive, some jack-knifed tractor trailer,
Balanced graceful as a feather on the sharp edge of...

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The calm lake woke up suddenly
On an all consuming day
Received its first visitor from above
A truck, a tractor trailer fell from the sky
Crashed!...An accident perhaps
A high ridge to sharp
A curve too narrow
It split open like...

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(This is a fictional poem)

My son was in the road and a tractor-trailer couldn't stop in time.
The driver ran over my boy and he broke this heart of mine.
My wife and I should've been watching...

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