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Best Hurtle Poems

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


Popcorn Music
Pop (corn) Music


Introduction

It’s time to dance, time to tango
There’s a Canadian on the banjo
When he sees the guitar strings
Jack’s mirth grows soaring wings;
As he scans...

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Categories: hurtle,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sun
shadowless meadows
ears of corn sway with the breeze
dragonflies hurtle

 © Harry J Horsman 2022...

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Categories: hurtle, summer,
Form: Haiku
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
There's four ninja turtles
Cleaning up the streets
Trained in the art of ninja karate-e
They hide down in the sewers
Watching for criminals
Could it be for real or...

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Categories: hurtle, adventure,
Form: Lyric
Saint Blackheart
Saint Blackheart walks the Autumn streets and smiles with diamond eyes;
   She's well-aware of what you think, but listens to your lies.
Confess your...

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Categories: hurtle, allegory, death, imagination, introspection,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Traveling Light
I am a photon
a tiny bundle of energy.
My brothers and I
oscillate in synchronized breath;
as a wave, 
we hurtle
through black  voids,
three hundred thousand kilometers
each second,
a...

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Categories: hurtle, light, nature, star,
Form: Free verse



The Mailbox
He remembers when his many bolts
weren't ringed in rust,
and his seams weren't blackened
with years of grime and dust.

The post upon which he sat
was gray and...

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Categories: hurtle, hope, life, time, night,
Form: Personification
My Celestial Sled
I was looking at the starry sky
When past a comet sped.
Oh, how I wished I could
Attach to it a sled.

I'd hurtle through the universe
Such things...

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© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hurtle, adventure, fantasy, imagination, space,
Form: Rhyme
Traveling Light
Unburdened by mass,
star born 
photons
hurtle
through vacuum voids.

They reach a planet
where green continents swim 
in blue oceans.
It is night. A woman
looks up at the sky.

The photons...

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Categories: hurtle, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jingle-Jangle Bells
Jingle-jangle bells
   Sing-song syncopation
Ambulances hurtle down streets
   of post-war Europe

Eerie bells; haunting bells
   ghosts of round-ups, of Auschwitz 
of...

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Categories: hurtle, death, pain, sound,
Form: Free verse
October
Autumn winds sway the trees,
blowing, swirling dry brown leaves,
coats of dogs and cats get thick,
dusk is grey and comes too quick.

Early morning skies are pale,
fog...

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Categories: hurtle, angst, anniversary, death, mother
Form: Rhyme
Heart of the City
In a thousand city 
rooms 
    lovers caress each 
other 
   On the streets 
auto lights are reflected 
in pools...

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Categories: hurtle, heart, love, urban,
Form: Blank verse
Skin
This night, I am trapped behind a face. 
My eyes are barred with tears that blur 
the look in them I would like so much...

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Categories: hurtle, angst, hope, life, satire,
Form: Free verse
Saturn's Rings
Saturn's rings appeal to me,
I'd give them a try.
Get myself a rocket ship
And hurtle through the sky.

Travelling at the speed of light
It wouldn't take a...

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© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hurtle, space,
Form: Sonnet
If a Tortoise, If a Turtle
Dedicated to my favourite poet - Shelley

If a tortoise, if a turtle
You are never going to hurtle
Witness how your limbs are placed
Splayed east to west,...

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Categories: hurtle, animal, destiny, funny, health,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Red Step In the Blitz
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Drones abound the London sky 
Search lights stray and flick to something and nothing
The bicycle dings its bell every sixth house 
As the warden swishes...

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© Ian Foley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hurtle, war, house, fire, fire,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs