Best Hurdle Poems

Written: March 28, 2024 For Constance La France Contest

Quote: (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.)...

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"We chase unreachable heights, in the hope to find happiness,
Only to find we are still the same, because in fact we are chasing ourselves."

(Triggered and...

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We had just got married - was the month of June
This is the saga of our disastrous honeymoon

We started off in a hotel in Norwich
The...

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Lift me up
As I rise on shaky knees

Give me strength
To rise from this bottom of rocks
Willed in my determination
To climb back to this mountain top

Call...

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They fear what they do not understand
but without understanding I fear no man

They subdue what they cannot naturally conquer
so I turn the tables put them...

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Two is company
Three a crowd
A and B call the shots
I'll C my way out

I've become a nuisance 
With the key to their heart
A knee high...

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	Life's Race
	Written: by Tom Wright
	9/8/98
	
	Life, isn't like a relay,
	With participants off and on,
	Nor is it like a sprint or dash,
	But more of a marathon;
	Many start...

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Within these walls
The walls were too high
Unable to break through
I struggled and fought
With determination 
Oh God how I tried
I climbed so high
You remained locked inside...

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I keep tripping over hurdles
Barriers forged between our hearts
Walls of a garrisoned fortress
Lofty palisades I must ascend
without crawling on my knees

I admit my faults lie...

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I just get past one hurdle
Another seems to come
Is there any rest for me
Oh’ I think, I’m gonna’ run




Chorus
Another day
Another dollar
A different time and place
Will...

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My head is twisted and 
confused, there are paths to 
ignore and paths to choose. 
I sit within and contemplate, 
for I cannot go back...

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A dinosaur, 
said he saw, 
the seashore, 
but he wasn't sure 
what the sea was for.
A butterfly, 
said he saw the sky, 
but he didn't...

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Old Inky dinky parlay voo
Had a race with a green kangaroo
They stood side by side
Inky’s laces got tied
By jingo it caused a foo doo

Poor Inky...

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I crawl through the thicket

O’er windswept conclusions a’ mist in the air
In fragrance that comes to my heart so aware
Of sundrenched magnolia beneath empty shade
To...

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She is a Ugandan girl
The odds are stacked against her
That is her first hurdle
She is also a Christian girl
That is her second hurdle
Clearly, hooking up...

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