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The Car Trip - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

The Car Trip is a story that involves Michael Rosen and Brian Rosen annoying their mother about wanting snacks and other stuff on a car trip. This story comes from the book The Hypnotiser and was reissued for the 2015 book Mad In The Back .

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• Brian Rosen
• Connie Rosen

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DISCLAIMER : This is a transcript for a video of Michael performing the poem/book, not a transcript from the actual poem/book itself.

The Car Trip.

Mum says "Right you two. This is a long car journey. I'm driving, and I can't drive properly if you two are going mad in the back. Do you understand?"

So we go "Okay Mum, okay. Don't worry about it!" And off we go... and we start the moaning.

"Can I have a drink? I want some crisps. Can I open my window? He's got my book. Get off me! That's my ear!"

And Mum tries to be exciting. "Look out the window! There's a lamppost!"

And then we go on "Can I have a sweet? He's sitting on me. Are we nearly there? Don't scratch! You never tell him off. Now he's biting his nails. I wanna drink, I wanna drink."

And mum tries to be exciting again. "Look out the window! There's a tree!"

Then we go on, "My hands are sticky. He's playing with the door handle now. I feel a bit sick actually. Your nose is all runny. Don't pull my hair! He's punching me, Mum! That's really dangerous, you know?! Mum! He's spitting!"

And mum says, "Right! I'M STOPPING THE CAR, I AM STOPPING THE CAR!"

She stops the car, "Now, if you two don't stop it, I'm gonna put you out the car and leave you by the side of the road."

"He started it!" "I didn't! He started it!"

[facepalm] "I don't care who started it, I can't drive properly if you two go mad in the back. Do you understand?"

And we go "Okay Mum, okay. Don't worry about it!"

"Can I have a driiiiiiink?"

Use in YTPs [ ]

• The ending where Michael says "Can I have a driiiiiiink?", the word "driiink" is used often in Michael Rosen YTPMVs as bass/tenor. It's also used as a transition; it's put over a test card image to replace the 1kHz test tone, but it's trimmed to the long "iiiiiii" sound. This is done typically after Michael purposefully fails a joke, and is used to make the situation funny. 
• "Get off me!" is often used in sexual references in YTPs.
• The facepalm is often connected to the stupid and/or obvious answer to an unoriginal/overused joke.
• "I don’t care!", "Going mad", "Do you understand?" and "That's really dangerous, you know?" are used a lot in a YTPs when the context arises, due to Michael's expressive articulation and silly expressions.
• "Look out the window! There's a lamppost/tree!" is often used with lamppost or tree replaced by another noun.
• "Okay, Mum, okay. Don't worry about it!" is used a lot in various YTPs, normally spliced with a character's name rather than "Mum".

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Michael Rosen

The hypnotiser.

I wrote a book of poems for children called The Hypnotiser some years ago and then it went out of print. I couldn’t get anyone to reprint it, so I asked my son Joe to film me performing the book for this website. All you need to do is click on whichever poem you want in the gallery below.

There are second-hand copies of  The Hypnotiser available on various sites on the web, most obviously at Amazon, Abe Books.com and eBay. Tell me if you like it, and if you do, I’ll do the other books of mine that are out of print like Mind Your Own Business, Wouldn’t You Like to Know, When Did You Last Wash Your Feet?, Never Mind, Who Drew on the Baby’s Head , and You Tell M e (which I wrote with Roger McGough).

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Michael Rosen

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I love chocolate cake. And when I was a boy I loved it even more. ...

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Michael Rosen Biography

Michael Rosen is a British author, poet, and broadcaster, known for his contributions to children's literature. He was born on May 7, 1946, in Harrow, London, England. Rosen attended Oxford University, where he studied English literature. He began his career as a writer in the late 1970s, and his first book, "Mind Your Own Business," was published in 1974. He went on to write many other books for children and adults, including poetry collections, picture books, and novels. Rosen's poetry is known for its accessibility and humor, often drawing inspiration from his own experiences and observations of everyday life. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the Eleanor Farjeon Award for children's literature and the National Book Awards Children's Book of the Year. In addition to his writing, Rosen has worked extensively as a broadcaster, presenting programs for BBC Radio and TV. He is perhaps best known for his work as a presenter of the BBC's "Word of Mouth" program, which explores the English language and its usage. Rosen has also been a vocal advocate for education, particularly in the field of literacy. He has written extensively on the subject, and his work has been used in schools across the UK to encourage children's reading and writing skills. Today, Rosen continues to write and speak on a variety of topics, including children's literature, education, and language. He is known as one of the most influential and beloved children's writers of his generation.

Family and early years

Michael Rosen was born in Harrow, London, the son of Connie Isakofsky and her husband Harold Rosen. The family background is Jewish, "from the Jewish East End tradition" as Rosen puts it. Rosen's father Harold (1919–2008) was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, in the United States to Communist parents and settled in the East End of London at the age of two, when his mother returned to the country of her birth. While a member of the Young Communist League he met Connie Isakofsky, his future wife and Michael Rosen's mother, in 1935. Harold was a secondary school teacher before becoming a professor of English at the Institute of Education, London, and Connie a primary school teacher before becoming a training college lecturer; she also broadcast for the BBC. Producing a programme featuring poetry, she persuaded her son to write for it, and used some of the material he submitted. Their ancestors came from Poland, Russia and Romania. Michael Rosen was brought up in Pinner, Middlesex, and went to various state schools in Pinner, Harrow, and then Watford Grammar School for Boys, and, having discovered the range of Jonathan Miller, thought: "Wouldn't it be wonderful to know all about science, and know all about art, and be funny and urbane and all that." Subsequently, in his own words: ... I went to Medical School, started on the first part of a medical training, jacked it in and went on to do a degree in English at Oxford University. I then worked for the BBC until they chucked me out and I have been a freelance writer, broadcaster, lecturer, performer ever since – that's to say since 1972. Most of my books have been for children, but that's not how I started out. ... Sometime around the age of twelve and thirteen I began to get a sense that I liked writing, liked trying out different kinds of writing, I tried writing satirical poems about people I knew.

After graduating from Wadham College, Oxford, in 1969, Rosen became a graduate trainee at the BBC. Among the work that he did while there in the 1970s was presenting a series on BBC Schools television called WALRUS (Write And Learn, Read, Understand, Speak). He was also scriptwriter on the children's reading series Sam on Boff's Island. But Rosen found working for the corporation frustrating: "Their view of 'educational' was narrow. The machine had decided this was the direction to take. Your own creativity was down the spout." Despite previously having made no secret of his radical politics he was asked to go freelance in 1972, though in practice he was sacked despite several departments of the BBC wishing to employ him. In common with the China expert and journalist Isabel Hilton among several others at this time, Rosen had failed the vetting procedures which were then in operation. This long-standing practice was only revealed in 1985. In 1974 Mind Your Own Business, his first book of poetry for children, was published. In due course, Rosen established himself with his collections of humorous verse for children, including Wouldn't You Like to Know, You Tell Me and Quick Let's Get Out of Here. Educationalist Morag Styles has described Rosen as "one of the most significant figures in contemporary children's poetry". He was, says Styles, one of the first poets "to draw closely on his own childhood experiences ... and to 'tell it as it was' in the ordinary language children actually use". Rosen played a key role in opening up children's access to poetry: both through his own writing and with important anthologies such as Culture Shock. He was one of the first poets to make visits to schools throughout the UK and further afield in Australia, Canada and Singapore. His tours continue to enthuse and engage school children about poetry in the present. In 1993, he gained an M.A. in Children's Literature from the University of Reading; he also holds a Ph.D. from the University of North London. He is also well established as a broadcaster presenting a range of documentary features on British radio. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's regular magazine programme Word of Mouth which looks at the English language and the way it is used. The English Association has given Michael Rosen's Sad Book an Exceptional Award for the Best Children's Illustrated Books of 2004, in the 4–11 age range. The book was written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It deals in part with bereavement, and followed the publication of Carrying the Elephant: A Memoir of Love and Loss which was published in November 2002 after the death of his son Eddie, who features as a child in much of his earlier poetry. In 2004, Rosen published This Is Not My Nose: A Memoir of Illness and Recovery, an account of his ten years with undiagnosed hypothyroidism; a course of drugs in 1981 alleviated the condition. Rosen has also been involved in campaigning around issues of education and for the Palestinian cause. He stood for election in June 2004 in London as a Respect Coalition candidate. He is also a supporter of the Republic campaign. Rosen was the subject of the BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs programme on 6 August 2006.)

The Best Poem Of Michael Rosen

Chocolate Cake I love chocolate cake. And when I was a boy I loved it even more. Sometimes we used to have it for tea and Mum used to say, 'If there's any left over you can have it to take to school tomorrow to have at playtime.' And the next day I would take it to school wrapped up in tin foil open it up at playtime and sit in the corner of the playground eating it, you know how the icing on top is all shiny and it cracks as you bite into it, and there's that other kind of icing in the middle and it sticks to your hands and you can lick your fingers and lick your lips oh it's lovely. yeah. Anyway, once we had this chocolate cake for tea and later I went to bed but while I was in bed I found myself waking up licking my lips and smiling. I woke up proper. 'The chocolate cake.' It was the first thing 1 thought of. I could almost see it so I thought, what if I go downstairs and have a little nibble, yeah? It was all dark everyone was in bed so it must have been really late but I got out of bed, crept out of the door there's always a creaky floorboard, isn't there? Past Mum and Dad's room, careful not to tread on bits of broken toys or bits of Lego you know what it's like treading on Lego with your bare feet, yowwww shhhhhhh downstairs into the kitchen open the cupboard and there it is all shining. So I take it out of the cupboard put it on the table and I see that there's a few crumbs lying about on the plate, so I lick my finger and run my finger all over the crumbs scooping them up and put them into my mouth. oooooooommmmmmmmm nice. Then I look again and on one side where it's been cut, it's all crumbly. So I take a knife I think I'll just tidy that up a bit, cut off the crumbly bits scoop them all up and into the mouth oooooommm mmmm nice. Look at the cake again. That looks a bit funny now, one side doesn't match the other I'll just even it up a bit, eh? Take the knife and slice. This time the knife makes a little cracky noise as it goes through that hard icing on top. A whole slice this time, into the mouth. Oh the icing on top and the icing in the middle ohhhhhh oooo mmmmmm. But now I can't stop myself Knife - 1 just take any old slice at it and I've got this great big chunk and I'm cramming it in what a greedy pig but it's so nice, and there's another and another and I'm squealing and I'm smacking my lips and I'm stuffing myself with it and before I know I've eaten the lot. The whole lot. I look at the plate. It's all gone. Oh no they're bound to notice, aren't they, a whole chocolate cake doesn't just disappear does it? What shall 1 do? I know. I'll wash the plate up, and the knife and put them away and maybe no one will notice, eh? So I do that and creep creep creep back to bed into bed doze off licking my lips with a lovely feeling in my belly. Mmmmrnmmmmm. In the morning I get up, downstairs, have breakfast, Mum's saying, 'Have you got your dinner money?' and I say, 'Yes.' 'And don't forget to take some chocolate cake with you.' I stopped breathing. 'What's the matter,' she says, 'you normally jump at chocolate cake?' I'm still not breathing, and she's looking at me very closely now. She's looking at me just below my mouth. 'What's that?' she says. 'What's what?' I say. 'What's that there?' 'Where?' 'There,' she says, pointing at my chin. 'I don't know,' I say. 'It looks like chocolate,' she says. 'It's not chocolate is it?' No answer. 'Is it?' 'I don't know.' She goes to the cupboard looks in, up, top, middle, bottom, turns back to me. 'It's gone. It's gone. You haven't eaten it, have you?' 'I don't know.' 'You don't know. You don't know if you've eaten a whole chocolate cake or not? When? When did you eat it?' So I told her, and she said well what could she say? 'That's the last time I give you any cake to take to school. Now go. Get out no wait not before you've washed your dirty sticky face.' I went upstairs looked in the mirror and there it was, just below my mouth, a chocolate smudge. The give-away. Maybe she'll forget about it by next week.

Michael Rosen Comments

Hi Michael, I am trying to contact you to obtain permission to display one of your poems Chocolate Cake in an art show that is called Visual Poetry in Tampa Florida. I do not find a way to contact you directly, and the website people were no help. I trust that you do not mind, and credits will be given to you and to the website where I found your marvelous poem. Contact me at [email protected] and I'll give you more information. Thanks so much!

Hello! Just wanted to say how brilliant you were when you came to my old school. I am using a few of your poems for a poetry anthology for school. Thanks so Much! lola ps my old school was Wickham Common :)

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Hi Michael, I have loved reading your poems in The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry, Brian Patten (Ed.) for years now, ever since my grown up daughter was a little girl. I love, Chocolate Cake, but, by far the favourite of most of my students is, I'm the Youngest in Our House! Thank you for writing about life in such an engaging way. You have helped to make poetry accessible and enjoyable by countless children. Now, you can probably write a poem about heads exploding from so much praise!

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The Car Trip - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

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45 Sweet and Fun 1st Grade Poems for Kids

Inspiration for our younger learners.

It’s so much fun to see students exploring new ways to use words and learn vocabulary. That’s why poetry is so exciting! We’ve put together this list of sweet 1st grade poems for kids to use in your classroom or at home. You’ll find great options of various lengths for all reading levels. Your students will love them!

1. First Grade Rocks by Lusine Gharibyan

“There’s a lot to do!”

2. The Car Trip by Ruth Donnelly

“Not on a plane! Not in a ship!”

3. My Lunch by Kenn Nesbitt

“A candy bar. A piece of cake.”

4. Play by Lill Pluta

“I jump. I shake.”

5. Apples, Apples by Liana Mahoney

“Growing on a tree.”

6. High Diddle Diddle by Unknown

“The cat and the fiddle.”

7. Happy Thought by Robert Louis Stevenson

“The world is so full of a number of things …”

8. There Was an Old Man With a Beard by Edward Lear

“Who said, ‘It is just as I feared!’”

9. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep by Rudyard Kipling

“Have you any wool?”

10. Buzz, Buzz Bumblebee by Ruth Donnelly

“In the grass. / Fly away.”

11. Opposite Day by Kenn Nesbitt

“The day to do things / in the opposite way.”

12. There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe by Mother Goose

“She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do.”

13. Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne

“When I was One, I had just begun.”

14. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star by Jane Taylor

“How I wonder what you are!”

15. The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess

“I never saw a Purple Cow.”

16. Colors by Rebecca T. Besser

“Red, blue, yellow, and green.”

17. Scarecrow by Lauren Shirk

“Made of hay.”

18. Deep Sea Dance by Kenn Nesbitt

“Down on the ocean floor …”

19. Jelly Beans by Valerie Danoff

“Belly, belly, belly beans.”

20. Bow Wow Wow, Meow, Meow by Kenn Nesbitt

“My dog and cat are friends somehow.”

21. How Not To Have To Dry the Dishes by Shel Silverstein

“If you have to dry the dishes …”

22. The Lion by Hilaire Belloc

“The Lion, the Lion, he dwells in the Waste …”

23. The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll

“How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail …”

24. The Little Turtle by Vachel Lindsay

“He snapped at a mosquito.”

25. I Heard a Bird Sing by Oliver Herford

“In the dark of December …”

26. Pizza, Pizza, I Love You by Kenn Nesbitt

“And I hope you love me too.”

27. The Owl and Raccoon by Debra L. Brown

“There once was a silly raccoon …”

28. Guess What I Am by Team TEFL

“I am yellow …”

29. Four Seasons by Andrew Frinkle

“Dan likes spring. / Spring is green.”

30. The Duck and the Kangaroo by Edward Lear

“Said the Duck to the Kangaroo …”

31. Magic by Shel Silverstein

“Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, / Eddie touched a troll …”

32. The Pasture by Robert Frost

“I’m going out to clean the pasture spring …”

33. The Quangle Wangle’s Hat by Edward Lear

“On the top of the Crumpetty Tree …”

34. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

“Whose woods these are I think I know …”

35. The Tyger by William Blake

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright …”

36. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field

“Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night / Sailed off in a wooden shoe …”

37. Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson

“In winter I get up at night / And dress by yellow candle-light.”

38. The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson

“When I was sick and lay a-bed, / I had two pillows at my head …”

39. A Thought by Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is very nice to think / The world is full of meat and drink …”

40. The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“He clasps the crag with crooked hands …”

41. The Raggedy Man by James Whitcomb Riley

“He works for Pa; / An’ he’s the goodest man ever you saw!”

42. Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

“‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves …”

43. At the Zoo by William Makepeace Thackeray

“First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black …”

44. Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson

“The moon has a face like the clock in the hall …”

45. Farewell First Grade by Donna

“Bye, bye classroom.”

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10 of the Best Poems about Cars

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)

It was Marinetti and the Futurists who perhaps made the definitive statement about the poetic potential of the motorcar: ‘We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed … a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.’

But in fact, ever since the automobile or motorcar began to appear on our roads, poets have been trying to find a means of poetic expression appropriate to this new invention. Here are ten of the greatest automobile or car poems.

Rudyard Kipling, ‘ To Motorists ’.

It’s fitting that Kipling heads this pick of the best poems about cars for several reasons: first, in being born in 1865 and having made his name as a writer in the 1880s, Kipling was perhaps the oldest writer to see the potential of this new invention for the poet; second, Kipling wrote a whole collection, The Muse among the Motors , in which he parodied the styles of earlier poets and wrote poems about cars as Robert Herrick etc. would have written them.

And here it is the short, pithy style of Herrick’s poetry that he pastiches as he offers a warning to motorists:

Since ye distemper and defile Sweet Herè by the measured mile, Nor aught on jocund highways heed Except the evidence of speed …

Banjo Paterson, ‘ The Lay of the Motor Car ’.

Andrew Barton ‘Banjo’ Paterson (1864-1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist, and author – one of two Australian poets to feature on this list. Paterson pays tribute to the thrill of ‘We’re away! and the wind whistles shrewd / In our whiskers and teeth; / And the granite-like grey of the road / Seems to slide underneath.’

Henry Lawson, ‘ The Motor Car ’.

Lawson was another Australian bush poet. Published in 1907, ‘The Motor Car’ – unlike Paterson’s poem – doesn’t exactly sing the praises of this new technological invention:

The motor car is sullen, like a thing that should not be; The motor car is master of Smart Society. ’Twas born of sweated genius and collared by a clown; ’Twas planned by Retribution to ride its riders down …

Percy MacKaye, ‘ The Automobile Poem ’. MacKaye (1875-1956) was an American playwright and poet, who in this sonnet captures the rapturous feeling of speed as the world rushes past us while we take to the roads in a car. Probably the first ever Petrarchan sonnet about the car!

Guillaume Apollinaire, ‘ The Little Car ’. Apollinaire (1880-1918), a French avant-garde poet, was one of the first to incorporate the recent invention of the motorcar into his poetry.

In this poem he recalls a car journey he made in August 1914 – the month of the outbreak of the First World War. The poem was written two years ago and is haunted by war: that fateful car journey saw Apollinaire and his friends heading off to fight.

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land .

Eliot’s 1922 masterpiece contains several references to motorcars, such as the ‘sound of horns and motors’ that signal Sweeney’s arrival at Mrs Porter’s brothel in the spring, and the ‘closed car at four’ the nervous woman and her husband will take when it rains. So the poem as a whole deserves to make this list, especially when we consider the taxi that throbs and waits in the third section, too …

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ‘ Driving A Cardboard Automobile Without A License ’.

An entertaining ‘just-so story’ of a poem from one of America’s finest contemporary poets (b. 1919), about how the poet’s own parents supposedly met – while his father was driving a cardboard automobile without a licence on ‘a fun-ride at Coney Island’. The final three lines are wonderfully tender.

Gregory Corso, ‘ Last Night I Drove a Car ’.

A lesser-known figure in the Beat movement, Corso (1930-2001) offers a short poem about reckless driving – as one might expect from a poet associated with the Beat movement…

Mark Vinz, ‘ Driving Through ’.

The American poet Mark Vinz (b. 1942) here uses the car journey through a nondescript town as a metaphor for deeper emotions relating to nostalgia and unfulfilled potential. Never has the expression ‘you’re only driving through’ been quite so poignant.

Simon Armitage, ‘ Hitcher ’.

A masterly poem from the current UK Poet Laureate, ‘Hitcher’ is a dramatic monologue spoken by a man who hires a Vauxhall Astra car and picks up a hitchhiker, whom he promptly beats up and throws out of the car.

Why he does it he doesn’t reveal, making this a dramatic monologue in the truly unsettling tradition of nineteenth-century poets like Robert Browning. It’s also a fine conclusion to this pick of the best poems about motorcars.

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Whew! That Apollinaire poem is a corker! Interesting to see what the translator did with the typographically free section that I’m guessing was a huge challenge to the translator’s task. I’m off in search of the original.

And so pleased to see Mark Vinz making his way into this selection with his fine poem about midwestern American driving.

Well I finished my shot at a new English translation, and since I was focused on performance I left out much of the Calligrammes section.

Learned some history looking at the situation in France at the end of August 1914. From the poem’s three points on the journey (Deuville, Fontainebleau, and then Paris) it looks like Apollinaire may have been trying to avoid the advancing German army, only to end up after all in a Paris that was the objective of their advance!

https://frankhudson.org/2019/08/29/the-little-car/

Thanks again for introducing me to a poem I hadn’t known. Somewhat comparable to Auden’s “September 1 1939” I think.

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And there’s this one by Robert Creeley: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42839/i-know-a-man

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• Poetry in Motion: Exploring the Beauty of Car Rides through Poems

Car rides are often seen as mundane, everyday experiences. However, within the confines of a vehicle, a world of emotions, observations, and reflections can unfold. While driving, individuals can find themselves lost in thought, captivated by the changing scenery, or simply enjoying the rhythm of the road. This unique setting has inspired poets to capture the essence of car rides in their verses, turning the ordinary into something extraordinary. In this article, we will delve into the world of poems about car rides and explore the evocative power of these often-overlooked moments.

The Open Road: Freedom and Adventure

Reflections in motion: contemplative car rides, the changing landscape: nature's poetry, the rhythm of the road: melodies in motion.

Car rides have long been associated with a sense of freedom and adventure. The open road stretches out before us, offering the promise of new experiences and undiscovered destinations. Poets have expertly captured this spirit in their verses, inviting readers to embark on a journey of their own.

One notable poem that embodies the thrill of the open road is "Song of the Open Road" by Walt Whitman. In this timeless masterpiece, Whitman celebrates the joy of traveling and the liberation it brings:

"Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose."

Through Whitman's words, we are transported to a realm where the possibilities are endless, and the road becomes a symbol of personal growth and exploration.

Car rides also provide a unique space for introspection and reflection. As the miles pass by, thoughts and emotions can swirl within us, finding their expression in poetry. These contemplative moments, often filled with a mix of nostalgia, longing, or even sadness, have inspired numerous poets.

In his poem "Driving Lesson," Billy Collins captures the profound vulnerability and connection between a father and son during a car ride:

"I said: Suppose we crash, and he answered without hesitation: Then we crash."

Collins' simple yet poignant words encapsulate the trust and bond shared between individuals in the confined space of a car. This poem reminds us of the power of vulnerability and the potential for connection that can arise during these intimate moments.

Car rides provide the perfect vantage point to witness the ever-changing beauty of the natural world. As we travel, the landscape shifts before our eyes, revealing breathtaking scenes that poets have sought to capture in their verses.

In "Driving West through Somerset County," Deborah A. Miranda crafts a vivid image of the American landscape:

"Somerset County, like a tired dog, rises to shake off her fields, her meadows, her ponds."

Miranda's poem not only celebrates the beauty of nature but also acknowledges its impermanence. The passing scenery becomes a metaphor for the transient nature of life itself, a gentle reminder to appreciate the fleeting moments.

The sound of wheels on pavement, the hum of the engine, and the rush of wind – car rides have their own unique rhythm. This melodic quality has inspired poets to infuse their verses with the cadence and energy of the road.

In "The Ride" by David Allan Evans, the poet skillfully captures the rhythm and excitement of a car ride through his use of vivid imagery:

"The engine's roar, the tire's hiss, the wind's whistle, the road's whoosh."

As readers, we can almost feel the vibrations of the car and hear the symphony of sounds that accompany the journey. Evans' poem reminds us that car rides are not merely about reaching a destination but also about reveling in the sensory experience along the way.

Car rides, often seen as mundane, hold within them a world of emotions, reflections, and connections. Through the power of poetry, we can rediscover the magic of these everyday moments and appreciate their beauty. Whether celebrating the freedom of the open road, delving into introspection, admiring nature's wonders, or savoring the rhythm of the journey, poets have skillfully immortalized car rides in their verses. So, next time you embark on a car ride, take a moment to appreciate the poetry in motion that surrounds you.

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