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Poetry About Cars

Cars are more than machines; they are vessels of freedom, engineering marvels, and the backdrops to our most transformative journeys. These poems celebrate the visceral thrill of the drive, the mechanical heartbeat of the engine, and the poetry found in the blur of the passing landscape.

From vintage classics to modern speed, this collection explores the relationship between man, machine, and the endless call of the horizon.

Featured Poems

Asphalt Song

The music of the night drive.

The headlights cut the dark in two, a silver blade on velvet black.
We are the ghosts of speed and steel, with miles behind and no way back, just the rhythm of the rolling wheel.

- David Vance

Interstate Meditation

On the hypnotic quality of long-distance travel.

The white lines are stitches in a seam that holds the world together as we run.
We chase the setting of the golden sun, living out a mechanical dream where every mile is part of a larger stream.

- C.R. Miller

The Mechanic's Prayer

The grease-stained ritual of keeping machines alive.

Hands mapped with grease and knuckles scarred, I listen to the rhythm of the valves.
There is a logic here, in gears and shafts, a metal prayer that's sung in parts against the quiet of the empty yard.

- Silas Vance

Classic Voices

The Motor Car

by Valentine & Sons, Ltd. (Early 1900s)

Capturing the wonder and novelty of the first automobiles.

With a rattle and a roar, it leaves the dusty street.
A chariot of the future age, running on lightning and heat.

Portrait of a Motor Car

by Carl Sandburg (1918)

A vivid personification of early automotive power.

It's a lean car... a long-legged dog of a car... a gray-ghost eagle car.
The feet of it eat the road.
The eyes of it tear the night into soft shreds.

To My Pegasus

by Filippo Marinetti (1908)

A Futurist celebration of the 'vehement god' of steel.

Vehement god of a race of steel, Automobile drunk with space,
Trampling with anguish, with bit between your teeth, The silence!

Micro Verses

The road is a story written in tire tracks and fading oil.

- Julian Thorne

Speed is the only modern beauty.

- Filippo Marinetti

The engine's heart beats only for the open road.

- Clara Holm

Chrome is the jewelry of the restless spirit.

- Maren Grey

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