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Best Hairpin Poems

Below are the all-time best Hairpin poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of hairpin poems written by PoetrySoup members


Journey To the Peak
Little blades of grass touching my naked feet
Oh, the soft pleasant touch, the trodden path
I am treading again; though this is my first
Venture, my maiden...

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Categories: hairpin, adventure, heaven, journey,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Postcard Home
Dear All


Hot today. Hired a car. Took to hills. Travelled far.

Narrow road. Never ends. Sweat on wheel. Hairpin bends.

Glanced at temp. Glanced at fuel. Aircon...

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Categories: hairpin, holiday, life, silence, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Down a Storm Drain Gone Forever
DOWN A STORM DRAIN GONE FOREVER.

There was once a wicked, jealous old human,
Who lived in a house down the lane, 
Not far from us,
Ugly and...

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Categories: hairpin, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member West Mountain Road
We made a trip to town today
And took West Mountain Road.
My friend and I prefer that  way
Back there, where time has slowed.

We drove past...

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Categories: hairpin, adventure, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Words and Feelings
You are still awake
I’m looking at your windows
You know,
Never before have I waited
For the lights to go out
In other apartments
And given much thought
To this dazzling...

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Categories: hairpin, cute love, heart, i
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dragon Meets Wolf Creek Pass
Dragon Meets Wolf Creek Pass
(Inspired by CW McCalls’ song ‘Wolf Creek Pass’)

On a trip to see Dragons’ friend Drag, way out… in Texas…
Crossing the plains,...

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Categories: hairpin, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Our Day Out
Went out today for a drive with a friend
We'll go into the hills up to heaven he said,
Round hairpin bends,o'er hill and dale we sped
When...

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Categories: hairpin, food, friendship, journey, places,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Forty Years and Counting
I was hopelessly smitten in English class,
By this girl with a boyfriend, a challenging impasse.
She had long shiny locks, the color of auburn,
And the curves...

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Categories: hairpin, beauty, boyfriend, fun, girlfriend,
Form: Rhyme
The Book
Pages I open each day
Under the sun that burns the hay
Verses I read and pray
Over a bun of bread I lay

Memories written below my chest
Strokes...

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Categories: hairpin, appreciation, dedication, mother, mother
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Barnstorming Heart
49 years past; a puppy was bought, picked up out of his pen on a pet shop floor;
he had honey brown eyes & an inquisitive...

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Categories: hairpin, adventure, memory, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Tunnel of Trees
A meandering stretch of twenty miles
from hip Cross Village to Harbor Springs,
through hairpin turns and roller coaster dips,
we, the lovers of the lovely
travel through Michigan’s...

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Categories: hairpin, nature, places
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Car Races
I love the clean air, breathe the clean air, 
I hunt the clean air in the race,
I want that distance between me and the field,...

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Categories: hairpin, car, fun, race,
Form: Quatrain
Ocd Part 1
This is in no way my poem, I'm not trying to take any credit for it.
I saw it on YouTube performed by Neil Hilborn.

The first...

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Categories: hairpin, loss, love,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Cul-De-Sac
Cul-de-Sac 

Quick steps slow to hesitate
The sudden curve of a straight white line
Into the mists of detour
 Lined with haunting facades
  Of blurred addresses
...

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Categories: hairpin, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
The Race
Downhill dart
In a hard rain
Brakes squeeling loudly
Yielding no refrain 
No line to start
Only a race to begin
Staring at death 
Not expecting to win
Trophy worth taking
The...

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Categories: hairpin, age, car, journey, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things