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Best Cross Country Poems

Below are the all-time best Cross Country poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of cross country poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Rail Ties That Bind
A little girl
She comes to a land of ghosts
Almost empty streets
She wonders
Where are all the people
No one here looks like her
Within her heart
Emotions stir

It is...

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Categories: cross country, care, death, dedication,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Mystery of Men
My car is equipped with maps and a GPS
With a great fear of getting lost I am obsessed
 
Men seem to have a different navigation...

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Categories: cross country, funny
Form: Couplet
The Alien
Listen to the sonorous tones 
of silence secluded in sighs,
Blind to every sight of reality,
with kaleidoscope vision and spider 
eyes.
Revisions perfected the proper 
cocktail
for soaring...

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Categories: cross country, introspectionme, voice, me, voice,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Since He Was a Child
Ever since he was a child,
I had the sense, the good sense.
that I didn't need to intrude much.
He went his own way,
and I was needed...

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Categories: cross country, introspectionmorning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Old Covered Bridge
When I was ten I got a bike one Christmas
I learned to ride that morning, 
	though the snow was several inches on the ground
Though the...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cross country, age, father, growing up,
Form: Narrative



The Inpact of Sports
I love to stay involed with my community.One of the ways I do that is by playing 
sports. Playing sports is a great way to...

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Categories: cross country, childhood, history, inspirational, sports,
Form: I do not know?
Africa Saves Her Daughter
Africa Kills Her Sun in Ken Saro-Wiwa short story
So far the greatest short story  i've ever read
Where the blackest pen lives
With the blackest ink...

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Categories: cross country, africa, strength, woman, women,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Good Year
It snowed last night.
Sometime after the New Year arrived
And left everything pristine
Covered in a thick gesso 
Applied by Mother Nature
For just such an occasion
As I...

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Categories: cross country, new year,
Form: Free verse
A Is For Athlete
When I was in high school, we had mandatory gym
Because it made us healthy, and because it kept us slim
So every day we'd work out...

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Categories: cross country, funny, school, sports, day,
Form: Rhyme
Kangaroo To the Rescue
A young cyclist called Jimmy Pike,
Famous for riding his cross-country bike,
Hit an echidna, his tire went flat,
Stopping his long trek,there he sat,
I think he might...

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Categories: cross country, children, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Shade
           Your past, your romantic past, is a shadow. Like all towns, Port Angeles was a combination of rain and clouds, sun and mist, with a...

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Categories: cross country, anger, deep, history, humor,
Form: Verse
Bottems Up
Bottoms Up[


I was looking around for a new winter sport
Something rigorous but not a dangerous sort
A good friend of mine suggested to me
“if you can...

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Categories: cross country, funny, sports,
Form: Rhyme
The Great Plains
The Great Plains


Vast expanse of land,
Virginal, pure, and yet shaped by man’s hands, 
A rich and lustrous corn carpet,
An open land with distant horizon
Where man’s...

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© Ritu Saheb  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cross country, adventure, america, nature, passion,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Material Life
Absolute science and art of being whole
           at one and under no delusion that
 ...

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Categories: cross country, art, dance, emotions, hate,
Form: Verse
Who Shall Save This World
Who Shall Save This World?

Who shall save this world?
Who shall bring peace in this world?
Who shall end up corruption among people?
Who shall find Treatment to...

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Categories: cross country, baptism, bible, courage, faith,
Form: Pastoral

Book: Reflection on the Important Things