Short Tailgate Poems

As the butterfly
Hovers near a peach blossom
Its shadow follows...

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Tailgate party time
Chicken, steak, baby back ribs
Quarterback show down...

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A little late?
Tailgate?
Uhoh, smash!
It's a crash!
Hospital bed -
Enough said....

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Old
Dirt road
Pick up truck
Blue jean baby
 By my side, Harvest moon lights up the night
My tailgate down, our swinging cowboy boots
A Gentle breeze
Sweet kisses
You and
Me....

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Listen to poem:

What The Friggin
Happened here mate.
I thought we had a date
Now you're late
Where's the bait?
I've burnt the steak.
You're a flippin' 
flagellate.
Get off your tailgate
and get over here
and gestate.
You friggin'
degenerate
cheapskate....

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Crowded stadium 
tailgate parties on
smoking barbecue
beer and booze flowing
chatter, loud music.
 
Warmth of friendship 
high with the drinks 
bare chest in snow
one big proud fan.

crowd cheering 
Band playing  
players wrestling. 

the beer 
popcorn 

Food 
...

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Early one Christmas morning, many years ago, 
after the earth received a new blanket of fresh fallen snow, 
and while the day was still dark and new, Wondering why 
did our Big Brother wake us? we didn't have a clue.

Hands gripping tailgate
Ski upon the ice and snow
happily we'd go
7/1/2020...

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What happened to all the gay poets I used to love?
I just sprained my thumb on the tailgate of my truck
What happened to all the lesbian poets that I loved?
Pockets full of rhymes and rocks
What happed to all the poets?
That were
Here
To
Say
I
Am
Not
You
I
Am
Some
Other
From
A different
Age
No
Labels
Nowhere
Gone...

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License
Learn it
Earn it

Road signs
Traffic's
Graphics

Parking 101
Rehearse
Reverse

Text messages
Checking
Wrecking
 
Back Off!
Tailgate
Jail bait

Officer on duty
Patrol
Control


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Contest for March of the Footles-- Sponsored by Timothy Hicks
3/3/16...

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As I sit here
looking out into the cold,
all motion except the flow of sight 
seem to be frozen still; even the wind
appears to have blown into a rest stop.

All sounds—
the adversaries of silence—
seem to have gone into retreat;
leaving an eerie void in nature’s cold.

Suddenly,
the wind is frightened awake!
nature’s mood of death is no more;
as motions begin to tailgate the scene....

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