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Taillights Poems - Poems about Taillights

Standing Out
...Riding on a highway, As the cars go streaming by, I notice varied brands and styles I can’t identify. To me, they mostly look the same, The SUV’s and such, With different shapes of tailligh......

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Categories: taillights, car,
Form: Rhyme
When My Nikon Died
...I kept the inner workings, kept the plastic furniture while it cracked into multidimensional bones. I kept (in part), the whir of its mirroring mind. Of course, the viewer has dimmed out not......

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Categories: taillights, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member On Interstate 5 In A Greyhound Bus
...On Interstate 5 In A Greyhound Bus mother pauline boards the big greyhound double decker her freckled son goes before her wearing a cub scout cap hurry up she says as they climb the stairs to t......

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Categories: taillights, america, memory, mother son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nuance of Spring
...I beckon nature to play her Symphony of Spring when everything comes alive, revived once more. When resident avian will have a chorus as backup, perched along limbs and branches of aged oaks, ar......

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Categories: taillights, spring,
Form: Free verse
Mirrored
...I came to her one night like she came to me softly and with a whisper she said she had a three-year-old daughter at home. The dining porch was a stage where we lost ourselves in song the back......

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Categories: taillights, devotion, friendship love,
Form: Free verse



Desolations Boulevard Ii
...a bar door is ajar, only fading voices echo into the void, from nowhere...and afar! Here n there, trash drifts ghosts in flickering neon. Broken, floating, bloated dead down eons halls a ......

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Categories: taillights, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deer
...taillights shine brightly as motorcycle stops quick deer crosses the road......

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Categories: taillights, animal,
Form: Haiku
Suburban Wastes Ii
...Suburban waste stretches beyond and far away Languishes under the hot hazy sun Seasons reap Memories run Remembering things better left unseen Memories reel in the theater on the mind Things fr......

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Categories: taillights, adventure, age, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Broken Neon Iii
...Splash of neon light. Neon glass shatters. A pale face looms out of the gloom. It shimmers into the night Smash of an engine's steel, A flash of sharp car headlights. Black eyes stare wide Cr......

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Categories: taillights, city, dark, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Ribbons Iii
...In halls of idol wind Ribbons of rain Ribbons of pain Ribbons of the insane Flying down the avenues Hands clutching the wheel Eyes blur as my mind swims… of my intellect's ravaged ruined laby......

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Categories: taillights, addiction, allegory, allusion, art,
Form: Free verse
Ribbons Ii
...Here I sit... Behind steering wheel. My back is numb My head reels. Cars pass me left and right Ribbons of crimson taillights Leave traces behind my eye Deep in my mind. Speeding headlong i......

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Categories: taillights, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Fire Fly
...Seeing it’s dim light I feel relieved The sun is too strong The moon is too far away The stars are too glittering The headlights are too blazing The taillights make me too emotional T......

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Categories: taillights, blessing, care, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Ribbons I
...Ribbons of silver light Crimson in amber strings drift ahead of me Red, Gold, and Green sway absently As the engine hums into the night Passing the shop windows of industry People bustling along......

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Categories: taillights, age, allegory, allusion, art,
Form: Free verse
When My Nikon Died
...I kept its funnel-cloud eyes. I kept the inner workings. Kept the plastic furniture while it cracked into multidimensional bones. I kept the whir of its mirroring mind. A shutter undrapes sh......

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Categories: taillights, poetry,
Form: Free verse
California Sunrise
...I woke up rested this morning And kinda excited too Sending out text notifications to A few friends for a review. One in particular from so far away I spoke with at length. A few hours ahead in......

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Categories: taillights, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Free verse

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