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Texaco Poems - Poems about Texaco

RUNAWAY
...[Verse 1] He wore the tie like a hand-me-down, Swore he'd make it big in some glass-wall town. But his mind kept drifting to that red clay bend, Where the river runs slow and the line don’t end. ......

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Categories: texaco, absence, emotions, faith, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member RASTA ANDREW AND THE LADY WITH THE RED DREADLOCKS
...REGGIE WHITE SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS AT UNIVERSITY MALL THE DAY YJAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY PLOTTED TO HAVE ME MURDERED OVER MY POETRY THE KILLERS LAY AWAITING FOR ANDREWS TAHOE TO PULL IN THEY PARKED IN ......

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Categories: texaco, allah,
Form: Naat



Premium Member All things that scrub the ground
...All things that scrub the ground like an old musty couch I saw you there seated with my very abusive ex husband wearing my under garments wrapped around your head I wondered just what you were as red......

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Categories: texaco, allah,
Form: Kyrielle
La route
...La route, c’est traverser l’Amérique, mille fois, C’est un idéal, qu’on ne réalise que parce qu’on est en vie, C’est un rêve qu’on poursuit dans une voiture, C’est des montagnes qui barrent l’hori......

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Categories: texaco, car, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our World of Yesterday
... Petal-pushers and hula hoops ‘Greasy Kid Stuff’ – smear on the goop Baseball card gum that tastes like rubber That amazing stuff called ‘flubber’ Dino the Dinosaur and th......

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Categories: texaco, fun, games, nostalgia, today,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Obsolete Professions - To Delete
...Of all the professions ever been in the world Some are rightly regarded today as absurd The Western Union man just can't compete with high-tech texts and twitters and tweets ......

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Categories: texaco, memory, nostalgia, people, work,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Red Texaco Fire Chief Truck
...The Red Texaco Fire Chief Truck David J Walker I’ve seen them parked on the shelves of antique stores Too numerous to count That Red Texaco Gas tanker truck Made of pressed sheet metal ......

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Categories: texaco, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fueling the Fumes
...Mexico rhymes with Texaco What a Gas......

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Categories: texaco, car, giggle, words,
Form: Senryu
Heaven Holds the Rest
...Dead cars decorate the field behind an old Texaco station that smells of grease and gasoline This is their graveyard: a place to rest and rust as relics of yesteryear Fords, Plymouths......

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Categories: texaco, appreciation, destiny, life, memory,
Form: Free verse
Regrets To Ash Footsteps
...Almost every, time I regret a thing, I've done it's from becoming my worst enemy Why can I never seem, to step aside Get out of my own way, instead of being Caught  between the many things preve......

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Categories: texaco, absence, dedication, destiny, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What I Think Will Come True This Year
...The czars and the kings will hold on to their throne chairs until they are dragged out kicking and screaming, tweeting all the way to their dungeons. Nuclear winter is a few years down the road,......

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Categories: texaco, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Get Home
...Broke down On the side of the road Got no where to go Just a flat tire Slept in the car till day light Thumbed a ride to a Texaco Man says, “Girl you look wiped out, You could stay at my place for ......

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Categories: texaco, abuse,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Nomadic Heart
...Nomadic Hearts Seems just yesterday simple Jane's heart kept perfect time. Ticking, never losing a beat. Days seemed good. Nights seemed hopeful. The streets of her town, barren of big city chaos, ......

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Categories: texaco, relationship, heart, city, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bang a Gong
...Who the hell rings bells anymore whether in a Capitalist society, a Theocracy, an Oligarchy, or a Dictatorship the DING has sure been taken out of the rama dama ding dong No ones home, the juries......

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Categories: texaco, education, history, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
This Is Uncle Max and This Is Aunt Thrax
...STOP TO SINK ABOUT THIS What you don’t understand is that I understand those of you who don’t understand I fully and factually get the things you do with clarity and class The way I understand w......

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Categories: texaco, angst
Form: Quintain (English)

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