Short Car Crash Poems

When you drink and drive,
Your Accountability
Is gone. Here and now....

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life is like a car crash
it spins out of contol
its pain creates an impact
it runs you off the road...

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twenty critters crushed...

  car crash...driver tipsy...hah...

    we laughed...not funny


        April 25 2018...

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Car crash train wreck tragedy 
far has pain trekked after me 
scar gash stain trick catastrophe 
discard mash drain reject strategy...

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Car Crash

Her last kiss was
a thorny stick pulled  
through my heart

Her last draw 
of cool fingers 
on warm palms
a car crash...

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A Last Kiss

A last kiss
like an arrow; 
pulled  
through 
my warm heart

A last 
draw of cool 
fingers on warm palms 
a car crash

And memory
a candle
all but numinous;
died...

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Dancing lights
   stealing the minds sight
stepping through the night sky,
glowing and pulsing
burning themselves out
    being lost 
to the appreciative
   by a massive car crash 
on the news....

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Smell the burning rubber.
Hear the screeching tyre. 
Watch in awe as the wheels fly off 
and the chassis catches fire.
Then avert your eyes.
Say your au revoir.
The casualties are packed in tight
Limp inside the car....

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The World is not out to get you !

You Are !

Or has it not been you ??

Who has brought yourself ??

Thus Far ?

Only you steering, driving this wreck
Car crash
Off the deck into the deep end
My Wizened Friend...

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Andy was driving.
Caused a
Car crash
On the highway.
Unbelievable!
Now
That
A friend has
Been killed.
It has caused chaos
Leading him
Into
Taking responsibility for his own actions,
Yet, he still blames himself....

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A car crash and he wouldn't go to the emergency room.
He was septic but he died only a few hours after he was admitted.

It was a useless death he could have been saved,
I was devastated at the loss and wasn't able to tell him how much I loved him....

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shallow groves
of my mind 
tepid waters break 
over  and over
hollow thought
of you tonight
a car crash
in my life
never was sober
shallow groves
all your lies
insecurities
swallowed whole
i gave up 
when i ran
when you wake up
quite hungover
want to stay in bed...

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Everytime he says a rhyme
It becomes a crime
When he spits the word 
It kills a bird
Everything he couldn't bare 
Came true with a stare
He threw it in the trash 
Before it became a car crash
Since birth he's been cursed
It makes him want to burst
He wants to die 
Just to get by...

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hospitals. tractors. cars. agitation.
family and friends.
Enemies at the cross roads put aside for a loved one.
waiting, seems like forever.
wishing, hoping, for the better.
jail, intoxication, blood.
a car crash, a drunken fool.
not his fault, not all of it.
Stuck in the hospital, waiting for quiet release....

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When You
ran away
with the rock-star
I ended-up
in Newbury Street
Billy Goat
in Gay and Lesbian 
parade

and now
lonely
like the one
who lost 
the whole family
in a car crash
cry with hail tears
for the sea lions
of Newton
living in Brookline

back then
it was a big deal
now is nothing
just two drunk southies
on a dead point......

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My first cry echoed out
in a metallic hospital room.
The magnolias and dogwoods
were in full bloom. Through
the years I grew hardy and
strong. A car crash enlightened
me to my own mortality. It was
the beginning of the end. Little
by little I lost my grip on life,
spiraling on a downward trend.
Now I embrace a cold winter that
will never become spring....

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Certain things must stay
under lock and key.
No one wants to know
who persecuted me.

Like a car crash or disaster,
we avert our eyes.
Must not lift the lid
on all those lies.

Bury hurt of twenty years
deep inside my heart.
Thought talking about it
would be a start.

Certain things must stay
under lock and key.
No one wants to know
who persecuted me....

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“Trash” 

they were like
a car crash on Mars
without thermal blankets

to make a
warm space
anywhere, haven

poetically 
landing 
unannounced,  

somewhere else

where trash
became 
treasure

(Ladylabyrinth / 2022)







perseverance.
"persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success"...

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An only child, actress, singer, nightclub entertainer
Jayne Mansfield.
Her movie Too Hot to Handle made sense to the people who knew her.
A tomato, lightning, a bonfire, married and divorce numerous times.
She loved her five children and kept her Playboy playmate figure.
Dying in a car crash in New Orleans at the young age of thirty-four.
She lived as if she knew she was running out of time....

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Two bodies hanging from annihilated cars
Collided hearts
Crashed at the lips
Creating daydreams with the impact of their fingertips
Worlds bleeding onto the jagged spears of shattered windshields
Love forming on the merged, crumpled hoods; Love the bodies can't feel
A marriage in death
Exchanging vows in silent breath
You may kiss the bride, the stranger
Upon this altar of a devastated Pontiac Grand Prix and a mangled Jeep Wrangler...

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Helium filled balloons 
Rose above the weary
Casket impaled with in
The crevice onlooker’s teary 
Dressed in black 
No one bright 
Send off to the dead
No dry eye in sight 
There is always 
A story to be told
Car crash death 
Young or old
Sickness and disease 
All ends the same 
Heart stops beating 
Soul loss is to blame
Adieu to the dead
Whatever path they take 
Nothing is set in stone except
An epitaph for the livings’ sake...

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Another stormy night in my hometown
Brought icy trees and wires down
Streets looking like a piece of glass
It was extremely hard for cars to pass

On this cold and chilling winters night
Bodies were thrown from a car in flight
One could see, not far out of sight
The reflection of red and blue lights 


From a deadly car crash, to a coffin
Lying there in innocence and youth
Surrounded by an aura of white
Called home too soon by God....

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So many feelings
So many insecurities
Over-thinking everything

Marching like a criminal 
To the beat of my own car-crash
Lingering in the fire of defeat

Must I meet your hollow empty friends?
Deaf
I dare not stay 

Take me back
Back to the beginning

Heart spun
Blindly singing to the sun

You nailed my head to the ground
You kept me alive

You became my muse
Until you tightened the noose
And kicked the chair from under me

Leaving me hanging
My heart dangling....

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In our heads
Are graveyards
Many

Everyday we visit
Every night
We weep

We remember
The one that
Kept us up 
Pushing fluids

The other
The car crash
His entrails 
Hanging out

The young dad 
Bike vs curb
One early dawn
Liver minced

The pancreatic
With cancer
All yellow
All dead

The new baby
Floppy like slinky
No sound
No hope

The breast lady
Besmirched
Figuratively
We failed her

We stay up
Like tonight
Secretly
Crying

Why?

(c) mbsaaka/2020...

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