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Array ( [sid] => 180349 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => The rearview mirror and the windshield [time] => 2015-01-20 21:13:59 [hometext] => Focus ahead [bodytext] => In the automobile you have the steering wheel
To direct you on your path
And the farther you can go
The more you have gas

And so that the same old song
doesn't drive you insane
You can take your baby in
For a routine oil change

And you might hit the ground running
From the moment you were born
And you can begin again anew
Getting new tires when they are worn

We can connect how we care for our car
With how we live life
And comparing the windshield with the rear view mirror
Gives us great life insight

Compared to the windshield
The rear view isn't much at all
Next to that puny glass slab
That crystal rectangle stands tall

And if the windshield represents the future
And the rear view the past
We can't focus on what's behind us
Because what matters most is approaching fast

My car taught me this
This theory not mine
There was my two-minute case
To leave to past where it is-

Behind [comments] => 4 [counter] => 319 [topic] => 21 [informant] => Beyfoxman5 [notes] => Edited per request ~ Moderator_18 Jan 21, 2015 [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )

The rearview mirror and the windshield

Contributed by Beyfoxman5 on Tuesday, 20th January 2015 @ 09:13:59 PM in AEST
Topic: Lifepoems

In the automobile you have the steering wheel
To direct you on your path
And the farther you can go
The more you have gas

And so that the same old song
doesn't drive you insane
You can take your baby in
For a routine oil change

And you might hit the ground running
From the moment you were born
And you can begin again anew
Getting new tires when they are worn

We can connect how we care for our car
With how we live life
And comparing the windshield with the rear view mirror
Gives us great life insight

Compared to the windshield
The rear view isn't much at all
Next to that puny glass slab
That crystal rectangle stands tall

And if the windshield represents the future
And the rear view the past
We can't focus on what's behind us
Because what matters most is approaching fast

My car taught me this
This theory not mine
There was my two-minute case
To leave to past where it is-

Behind

Copyright Â© Beyfoxman5 ... [ 2015-01-20 21:13:59]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: The rearview mirror and the windshield (User Rating: 1 )
by JamesStockdale on Wednesday, 21st January 2015 @ 08:55:22 AM AEST
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Dig it!
Amazing its a poem about a car.
Great!

Re: The rearview mirror and the windshield (User Rating: 1 )
by Invierno on Wednesday, 21st January 2015 @ 08:25:42 PM AEST
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Nice phrasing. Cool schtuff.

Invierno

Re: The rearview mirror and the windshield (User Rating: 1 )
by alicewhite on Friday, 6th February 2015 @ 02:04:07 PM AEST
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wow, so relevant and sublime , loving this sooo much, thanks for writing it , you have helped me out with this one , a poem I needed to read and a poem I would love to read over and over again x brilliant.
Today I had a song by
TAME IMPALA called ELEPHANT stuck in my head and ive always loved this line the best,

He pulled the mirrors off his Cadillac
'Cause he doesn't like it looking like he looks back

anyway here are the lyrics
Elephant"

Well, he feels like an elephant
Shaking his big grey trunk for the hell of it
He knows that you're dreaming about being loved by him.

Too bad your chances are slim

And it's not like mister shook to get shy when they ask him who is on top
There must be something deep down in the dark down there

He's not too easily scared

He's got friends but they got fear
Wouldn't care too much if he just disappeared
Oh, look see there he is now coming down the stairs

Here he comes

He pulled the mirrors off his Cadillac
'Cause he doesn't like it looking like he looks back
He talks like his opinion is a simple fact

Somebody grabbed his collar
He cried the whole way home
No one been remembered a thing when they saw him again

That's how it is 'til the end
Yeah

Re: The rearview mirror and the windshield (User Rating: 1 )
by alicewhite on Friday, 6th February 2015 @ 02:10:23 PM AEST
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this aint just a poem about a car at all, , look a little closer and the car disappears cause there was never a car to begin with me thinks, follow the white rabbit and go ask alice when shes ten feet tall ,lol , fed my head with your poem , thanks and I think I shall read more of your poems as this one left me wanting more x

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