Waves
...Waves
In and Out
On the Shore
Until you can see them no more
White caps
Touch my toes
As I dodge the crabs that waddle by
And all at once I catch the football
My friend throws
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Categories:
vw, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
We didn't have much stuff
...We didn’t have much stuff
We weren’t poor
Or so we were told
Ya got one pair of shoes
Maybe sneakers in the summer
A few “hand-me-downs”
A “cold water flat” in the city
An old black cast iron ...
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Categories:
vw, age, life, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Victor feels Frowsy Disheveled and Frayed
...Victor, the VW bus was angry, he had rust on himself now
His owner was unkempt, frowsy, disheveled and frayed.
His house would have been condemned
If he had not hired a maid....
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Categories:
vw, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
ONE MAILBOX AT A TIME- THE SEQUEL
...
Yesterday I posted a poem about our Volkswagen mailbox-
on which Deborah painted symbols of flowers, butterflies and a dove
It’s our subtle way of stating we hope for a world filled with peace a...
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Categories:
vw, love, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Flower Power On the Side of a Vw Bus
...I had heard of flower power, but this was extra nice
I sat and stared at the bus as I enjoyed a pizza slice.
Who painted your flowers? I asked a hippie all gray.
My wife, he told me. Aren’t they m...
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Categories:
vw, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Beach Bound With Beach Boys
...beach bound
heading there with canoe
three hippie squirrels
driving a VW, what could be better?
potato salad and hot dogs ready
listening to Beach Boys music from the sixties...
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Categories:
vw, beach,
Form: Free verse
Beetle
...It was just a 1964 Beetle
dressed in its finest
VW red;
the best car
on the road,
spin on a dime,
driv’in half a mile on fumes
with three spark plugs;
yes I said three spark plugs,
don’t...
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Categories:
vw, appreciation, car, fun, poems,
Form: Free verse
The End of a Year
...The end of the year.
The pope is dead, no, not him, but the old one
who liked wearing red hats
There he was, driving his VW around the alps
advancing slowly through the clerical ranks
and sudd...
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Categories:
vw, absence, angst, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
Courier Run - West Berlin
...A VW Beetle
An unloaded thirty eight
In the passenger seat
And out through the gate
A briefcase of secrets
Chained to the wrist
Memorized instructions
From an unwritten list.
In the event ...
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Categories:
vw, military, nostalgia, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Ramble 23
...i’m running a little late
six months ago i read
the average life expectancy was 79.5 years
i thought i had time to
finish a couple of home projects,
find and restore that 65 vw bug
i’ve always...
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Categories:
vw, age, golf, time,
Form: Free verse
All the Mothers
...I cry EVERY TIME I come here, But I just cant stay away
Cus I know you ladies are all feelin..... what I'm feelin.... EVERYDAY!
I read your posts and cry, my heart breaks for all of you
As we sh...
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Categories:
vw, bereavement, death, heartbroken, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Mariah Gets To Hollywood
...Mariah needed to get to the Hollywood Hills
She recognized this mission was her destiny
Tell everyone her mother encouraged her
It was 1974, when rides were free
She hitchhiked from Ohio to Cal...
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Categories:
vw, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Creating a Super-Hero Part2
...Ever had chase fest for a runaway balloon,
that's going places, underused, under benches,
high fiving branches,
becoming a star to the onlooking masses?
Convenient how it knows,
that we h...
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Categories:
vw, butterfly, care, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
So Happy, My Heart
...A pink
VW Beatle
I spotted
today
So happy
my heart ~
'til a big SUV
got in the way...
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Categories:
vw, car, color, happy, heart,
Form: Rhyme
VW Beetle
...Two adults and six kids jammed into a VW beetle. We could have been the poster family for their commercial. Driving twenty-five miles into town and back for Sunday mass. What an excursion. Singing wa...
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Categories:
vw, car, family, growing up,
Form: Haibun
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