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Tailgate Poems - Poems about Tailgate

In Autumn
...In Autumn In Autumn pumpkins hang out in hedge mazes, corn visits wreathes in Finland, spices go to music festivals, photos of chestnuts do the splits, marsh mellows make prank calls, h......

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Categories: tailgate, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Football game
...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......

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Categories: tailgate, football,
Form: Free verse



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

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Categories: tailgate, car,
Form: Rhyme
Old Weathered Pickup
...A rust-eaten frame, a canvas of scars, A weathered old truck, a king of the bars. Its paint, once a gleam, now faded and worn, Like a story told, a lesson to be born. The tailgate hangs loose, ......

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Categories: tailgate, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Creating a New You
...Written: August 28, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ If you don't covet where you live, my friend, Imagine a fitter home, a place to mend, A sanct......

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Categories: tailgate, analogy, appreciation, change, character,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member What the Friggin
...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 a......

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Categories: tailgate, anger, raven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Disrespecting My Friends Anguish
...My friend’s house caught on fire when she was gone. It was a gorgeous house, in the country, on fifty acres. She had painted custom murals and decorated every room fancy. The kind of house people ......

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Categories: tailgate, fire,
Form: Narrative
Bobo's Comeuppance
...A Rottweiler Shepard mix longsuffering had proven to be With the Doberman pup, a red one, won on a gambling spree Rocky the mix and BoBo coexisted for a time As any two male dogs can manage......

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Categories: tailgate, animal, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Street Skiing
...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......

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Categories: tailgate, brother, memory,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Road Rage
...It takes two to tango, as they say. It also takes two to road rage. It sure is fun watching two insane, out-of-control knuckleheads zigzag aggressively on the highway with their driv......

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Categories: tailgate, analogy, anger, angst, encouraging,
Form: Didactic
One Date Too Many
...she spoke of her man who rode a horse to date her one night no carriage in place for her to sit she smacked the horse’s rear her man was ridden out of sight. she spoke of her man who had horse......

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Categories: tailgate, funny,
Form: Rhyme
National Beer Day
...Today’s a day to shout and cheer And naturally, to have a beer For it’s the day, across the land, When Prohibition lost its stand. We owe it all to F.D.R. And whether you are in a bar, At hom......

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Categories: tailgate, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Road Rage
... Road Rage By: Tom Wright 8/2/2006 The latest phenomenon Of “Britches” day and age, Was his life’s first encounter? With the tag Road Rage; It had happened one night Or was it ea......

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Categories: tailgate, funny,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Winter's Teasing Silence
...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 sil......

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Categories: tailgate, imagery, metaphor, nature, silence,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Anticipating Autumn
...With temps in the nineties for four solid weeks, and nary a raindrop forever it seems; our outlook is bleak and to this our mood speaks of these late summer months and their endless extremes as t......

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Categories: tailgate, autumn, longing,
Form: Quintain (English)

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