Willys Jeep
...My father bought a Willys Jeep
When I was just a kid.
My mother took one look at it
And man, she flipped her lid.
A station wagon was the car
He’d told her he would buy.
To him, they were equ...
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Categories:
station wagon, memory,
Form: Rhyme
What's Dead is Dead
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After checking the Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Wards catalogs until their pages were torn and faded, we took one last look at the sales ads in the local newspaper, donned our socks and sandal,...
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Categories:
station wagon, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Stay In Bed
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Two guys at the corner of Fifth and Grant,
were looking pretty far down on their luck.
Because their beat-up old station wagon,
just got T-boned by a Ford pickup truck.
The light was green fo...
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Categories:
station wagon, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Funny Papa's
...'66 Buick Station Wagon back gate door open
boys toss school stuff lay down in back fixes booked pillows
older bro latch down the back gate shut
girls all in a row in the back seat shuts back door...
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Categories:
station wagon, appreciation, character, childhood, family,
Form: Verse
Ilmo Our Eldest Brother Kimo 'James'
...*Image of Palm Tree Lights Trunk Wrap by Christmas Lights, Etc.
ILMO Our Eldest Brother Kimo (James)
Our sixties Christmas--as my memory serves, where
our eldest brother freshly cu...
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Categories:
station wagon, brother, celebration, childhood, christmas,
Form: Free verse
I Love You, Daddy
...I Love You, Daddy
( Previous title has been changed!)
Golly! I do miss Daddy and the luxury of the Cadillac Fleetwod Car Series!
My Dad would only buy these till he di...
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Categories:
station wagon, appreciation, childhood, father daughter,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Changing Face of Dreams
...Sometimes I think where we end up in life…how high we go…how far…
can be symbolized not only by the family tree…but by the family car.
For me it started with my parents driving our family station...
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Categories:
station wagon, dream,
Form: Rhyme
My Gramma S Couch
...Won’t you please take me back
To the brown couch at my Gramma’s house
With the big gold-framed antique mirror over it
And hand me Grampa’s old transistor radio
Covered in leather with glorious k...
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Categories:
station wagon, family, grandmother, sad,
Form: Free verse
Priest's Palette
...Priest’s Palette
Looking in the mirror over the sun visor of our nine passenger 1959 Ford station wagon, which we really need with six children, Dad says he does not care for Ash Wednesday.
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Categories:
station wagon, celebration,
Form: Free verse
He Say I Say
...HE SAY I SAY
You say tab water and I say filter water
You say cane sugar and I say stevia boomer
You say coffee and I say tea
You say pork chop and I say wild salmon
You say butter makes eve...
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Categories:
station wagon, care, for her, for
Form: Free verse
Internal Voice and Her Request
...A message came to me but I said no
The voice was persistent and insistent
I asked my husband to do it for me
He said no too
I was exhausted; I had just given my children a bath.
The voice woul...
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Categories:
station wagon, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
A Faded Polaroid Snapshot
...Long, winding gravel driveway
decrepit old Mercury station wagon
parked there
doors unlocked
those big red buttons
sticking up
no seatbelts either
Tiger lilies blooming
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Categories:
station wagon, basketball, car, flower, house,
Form: Free verse
Angel Knew What She Was Doing
...I count on angels. They speak to me.
Not in voices, but telepathically.
They do not leave me alone until I do certain things.
I know it is an angel due to their persistent tenacity.
Call Toni. ...
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Categories:
station wagon, angel,
Form: Narrative
The Good Old Days
...It was a crisp fall November weekend,
We had gotten up early that morning
A frantic rush, buzzing to go camping.
We'd packed the night before, tired by the end.
My parents briskly loaded th...
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Categories:
station wagon, dog, family, fish,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
God Sent Me
...March 1980
An insistent internal voice told me take a library book back
I had just sat down after bathing three little girls
I was exhausted
The voice would not leave me alone
I finally asked my...
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Categories:
station wagon, faith, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
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