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Best Hurtling Poems

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Premium Member Bill and Ted's Excellent Conversation - A Message for 2024
*To fully appreciate this a person would have to be at least somewhat familiar with the movie: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

"Dude, here's a heads...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hurtling, hope, love,
Form: Narrative



Himalayan Trip-Trap-2
Himalayan  Trip-Trap

They poured in,  before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their  cribs -through-hearse  stages, 
trusting like kids, ...

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Categories: hurtling, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Keeper of Wishes
Keeper of Wishes

Look up!  Look into the face of clear astral nights – 
See my trail of fiery radiance hurtling across swirling galaxies,
Streaking through...

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Categories: hurtling, night, star,
Form: Personification
Souperstarstruck
It is a dazzling display of brilliance, this conglomeration of constellations from different skies above as many different seas.  I look at them, and...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hurtling, life, poetry, thank you,
Form: Haibun
Ancient Light
A story inscribed in the constellations
of the punctate canopy of night
Perseus astride the winged Pegasus
Hurtling to save his fair maid Andromeda 
from the beastly Cetus...

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Categories: hurtling, imagination, space, stars,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Is There An Exclusive All-In-One Principle
‘ In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. Instead, it predicts a number of  different possible outcomes...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hurtling, philosophy, death, art, dark,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Starry Love
Time moves on forward fast,
Like rapids hurtling unheedingly headlong
Towards a sheer deep cascade,
And plummet down below in a mighty roar
To flow relentlessly towards the infinite...

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Categories: hurtling, love, stars,
Form: Free verse
Seeking, Searching
We have strained the edges of the universe,
you and I together, seeking, searching
on cosmic trails for justice love and fear,
I loved thee then, as I...

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Categories: hurtling, imaginationlove, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Steam Train
And in my dream-
          I am on a train curving through the wilderness,
steam billows into the...

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Categories: hurtling, dream,
Form: Verse
Wally and the Angels
...inspired by a Dylan Thomas short story.



A breezy day, and two boys biking down the lane, 
past meadows green with envy, soft as spring. 
Picnic-packed...

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Categories: hurtling, childhood, cancer,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Bee
a bee
invaded our car in
nineteen fifty four
while we were driving
to the jersey shore
flew in my open back window
of our two tone ford custom
pea green top...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hurtling, beach, care, childhood, confusion,
Form: Free verse
The Village On the Water V
Showering white light illuminates 
  Bright-Moon Bay;
   In the overlooking Moon-Inviting Pavilion,
 Li Bai had raised his twinkling, rich amber
Coloured wineglass
 ...

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Categories: hurtling, appreciation, beauty, places,
Form: Free verse
Eternity As a Moment
Think, therefore, because
We are, immortal shining
Bright as the sun a million
Times over, relieved in shades 
Of light and dark.  This which we
Seek eludes the...

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Categories: hurtling, inspirational, introspection, uplifting,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Fear Is a Liar
Fear, a liar that can delude or mislead you.
It tells you that you are cursed and doomed.
Have courage to stop and look at Fear in...

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Categories: hurtling, allusion, angst, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Today's Culture
TODAY'S CULTURE


Rhett Butler said to Scarlett O'Hara
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn
The movie industry hurtled a barrier
And American culture took a slam

In today's...

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Categories: hurtling, america,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things