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Best Greased Lightning Poems

Below are the all-time best Greased Lightning poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of greased lightning poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Hero Code: Decoded
Enthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests...

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Categories: greased lightning, hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Once Upon a Halloween In the 50's
The excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With...

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Categories: greased lightning, nostalgia,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Thanks For the Memories Olivia
Olivia for many decades
you have been my number one
in looking back over the years
these SUMMER NIGHTS were such fun

But so quick like GREASED LIGHTNING
we would...

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Categories: greased lightning, memory, music, star, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
The Penguin - Long Version
THE PENGUIN

Way down south on a continent frozen
The penguin a tough life has chosen
Though you’d think he’d be coy
Like a super-cool playboy
You’ll find him out...

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Categories: greased lightning, animal,
Form: Limerick
Super Grandma Girl
Super grandma girl, in her long green cape,
took a quick ride on a golden grape;
she slipped, greased lightning like, over the floor,
gunned her girl motor...

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Categories: greased lightning, fun, grandchild, grandmother, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Fries and Burgers
Feeling kinda cruddy, yup, that's the word
Too many fries, too many burgs

When will I learn I can't handle that stuff
Stomach rebels, starts causing a fuss

Once...

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Categories: greased lightning, food, funny, health,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At the Saloon
The Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At The Saloon


That wash-bin washed away tons of trail-dirt
Many a pint of blood too said the old man
He was lean...

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Categories: greased lightning, art, death, history, imagery,
Form: Narrative
Friday May 13th 2022
Friday May 13th, 2022

An excerpt taken from a lengthy tome,
written courtesy a favorite poet of mine.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia  struck within a blink,
I swear yours truly never...

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Categories: greased lightning, atheist, dark, destiny, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Unrequited Car Rearing Paramours of Yesteryear
Ford score and...Chevy
five years ago,
my Model A strapping
handsome big bro,
(who sped like one

speeding Triumph font lee, crow),
wing, & swooping Thunderbird, with
bold face observers whistling Geronimo
(Holy...

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Categories: greased lightning, adventure, age, analogy, creation,
Form: Personification
Learning When How To Close Seat Then
Learning when/how to close seat then...
flush... the toilet with good frisson!

(alternately titled long windedly
using lower case letters:
no matter tidily bowled over based
upon real events, perhaps...

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Categories: greased lightning, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Sawbill Bay Ufo Sighting
Sawbill Bay UFO Sighting 

Stranger than fiction, fraught with mischief,
To deceive impressionable minds of gullible people:
Who desperately want to believe in conspiracies,
And alien abductions and...

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Categories: greased lightning, humor, imagination, science fiction,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Acrostic
A  bandoned, abased facing failure
C  alculating catastrophic paper
R  ecycling thoughts recreate some ideas
O  bsolete thinking antique panacea
S  agacity scripted by...

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Categories: greased lightning, funny,
Form: Acrostic
Lodging In Old Kazungula
As the wind flagellates heavily, I can smell cigarette smoke,
Plunging like greased lightning before my nostrils,
But there's a passive feeling about spending the night in...

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Categories: greased lightning, adventure, africa, emotions, humorous,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Swimming Against the Current
[Note: You will see in the work below connections to other poems I have posted here.  Those poems are tangents to this poem that...

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Categories: greased lightning, ozymandias, pride, sin,
Form: Free verse
Weltschmerz Germane To Those Feeling Malaise
Senescence concomitant
and best buds with malaise
despondency inescapable as
infirmity ages formerly young gals guys
though age just a "number"
father time not shy to apprise

every mortal wakes to...

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Categories: greased lightning, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs