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Tailfins Poems - Poems about Tailfins


Premium Member I spent my childhood being enraged
...I spent much of my childhood being enraged Fairness mattered to me I was a kindness advocate Deploring bullies, liars and thieves Good thing I did not know about sex trafficking or rapists I c......

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Categories: tailfins, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Dream Car
...1959 pink Cadillac with tailfins It was gorgeous, and cost five hundred dollars A fifteen-year-old boy drove thirty miles to buy it. He had been saving money for four years. 1959 pink Cadillac ......

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Categories: tailfins, car,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member I Remember Then
...I remember when soda pop was a nickel Same for a double strawberry popsicle, Back then the best cars had long tailfins We did silly things for “sh*ts and grins,” Turned-up collars and......

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Categories: tailfins, childhood, growing up, memory,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member 1959 Pink Cadillac With Tailfins
...1959 pink Cadillac with tailfins It was gorgeous, and cost five hundred dollars A fifteen-year-old boy drove thirty miles to buy it. He had been saving money for four years. 1959 pink Cadillac ......

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Categories: tailfins, car,
Form: Prose Poetry
Going West
...Once, a hundred cigarettes glowed in just one cinema. Arrows flew yet all were near misses, random unaimed bullets easily knocked over bunches of whooping Comanches. Some horses were shot unse......

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Categories: tailfins, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pinkie
...Pink as a baby’s bottom. Pink as 1960’s Bazooka Bubblegum Pink as Barbie’s Dream House Pink as a 1959 Cadillac with chrome tailfins. Pink as a perky, pretty, popular, pizzazz-y petite preteen. W......

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Categories: tailfins, girl,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clickety Clickety Clickety Click
...Strappy white sandals with heavy heels Clicking on the hood of his 1959 Pink Cadillac with the pink tailfins Tappy Tappy Tap Tap Tap If you think I am cute, your eyes can clap Clickety Clicket......

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Categories: tailfins, dance, nostalgia, relationship,
Form: Free verse

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