Short Muffler Poems

muffler
muscle car
wife beater shirt
my dad in the sixties
muffler...

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Below Zero

grey skies thick as stew
spew white muffler mounds
drowns all in deep somnolence
even a dogs distant bark
hangs crystalline on the air....

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I spent some money today
On a brand new muffler
Getting one that doesn’t sound
Like there isn’t a buffer
This one is all shiny
And brand new looking
It sounds so perfect
Doesn’t sound spooking
I love my new muffler
Grand is its new sound
I believe it’s fantastic
Nice and perfectly round

Russell Sivey...

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if you kick
my kick
stand

my
bike
will fall

down
and all
the base

ball cards
and clothes
pins will cease

to
spin
and make

noise again
like a brok
en muffler 

or a motor
cycle now
just sits

there where
a don Quixote
kid kicks it and

says to 
his friend
Sancho it's 

dead...

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No blood, no bone; 
no sinewy flesh can hide muse’s cries.

No muffler stifles; 
any trifles, of muse’s singing soul.  
A celebrant of life is muse alive.

Intonations paint, blue and pinkish skies.  
The greens and gold’s, 
of earth and time; 
how they revel in muse alive.

Muse upon her natural high; 
gifts us with her best. 
Expressions fly from muse alive.
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Can you believe? I have Corvette!
Think my wife will be upset?
Bright, golden yellow, like a jet!
You bet, you bet, you bet, you bet!

What’s that she said?  “What the heck?”
Passenger seat I will eject 
Throw her on her fanny yet,
You see, the Devil I have met!

The muffler rumbles all upset
Roar through streams, but won’t get wet
I'll take my dog -- My favorite pet
Go like the wind –- Our thrills we’ll get!...

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my knees are squeezing tightly, my arms wrapped around your waist
a cool breeze, the morning sun, a quiet highway on which we run
centrifugal force in motion, as you pop the clutch
chest to back, the muffler crack, as we hit the open road

low clouds in the mountains offer a beautiful view
heading to Catalina, a first for me and you
the Victory purring loudly, an awesome humming sound
this vibration I'm feeling has nothing to do with bike...

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Behind the strong trunks of evening gloom
endless leaves sifting at toes
away and beyond in the low light fog
universal laws lead us home
trios of students examine life
inversely inspecting ideas and worms
fall lives adrift in the warmth
unkindled by muting life to death
leaven for life bread.

Fluttering winds, hair, friends
all swirled like a muffler taken to air
let us climb high toward heaven
let us swan dive into mulch with flair....

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Christmas is all about the gifts:
The gift of love, whether earthly, or above;
The physical gifts of joy---a muffler or a toy;
The gift of laughing cheer with someone you hold dear;
The gift of receiving, if you're worthy and undeceiving.

Christmas is all about the gifts:
Givers without receivers would cancel giving, too;
Receiving is a virtue, so be glad when you do;
When you get what you want, don't sham a shame and wilt;
Feel no dishonest guilt, take Christmas to the hilt....

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Time has become my greatest enemy
It drags on, an infernal grating on the nerve
Like a broken muffler, dragging around the curve 
While my love and I starve for each other’s company

Until time surrenders, I wait my love with baited breath
Watching time, which I have confounded for going by so slowly
For that hour, that minute, that second, when you will be mine only
When I shall pledge my love to you forever, until death




For: Barbara Gorelick’s contest
Once Upon A “Time”...

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