Get Your Premium Membership

Best Jockeying Poems

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


We In Deep Trouble
I think we are in trouble
they are all in good spirits
something smells fishy to me

They smile and they tell you
they "will", fix it this time
give...

Read more of this work...
© Pete Yuhas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jockeying, confidence, deep, leadership, november,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Early Morning In the Country
EARLY MORNING IN THE COUNTRY

			The smell of fresh brewed coffee
			The sound of bacon slowly sizzling in the pan
			And the heady aroma it creates
			Homemade biscuits in...

Read more of this work...
Categories: jockeying, happiness, morning, nature,
Form: Free verse
Rooks At Dusk
In brooding dusk they gather from the East
Arrive in twos and threes upon the trees.
Autumn beeches, now devoid of leaves,
Begin to darken as the branches...

Read more of this work...
© Mike Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jockeying, bird, nature, night,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Animal Footles
Thanks for not saying I'm an Alpaca!

Llama
Calmer

Kitten will only eat Kit-E cat

Fussy
Pussy

Tiddle's uses her litter tray

Tiddle's 
Piddles

Eeyore had far too much to drink

Wonky 
Donkey

Jockeying for...

Read more of this work...
Categories: jockeying, animal, humorous,
Form: Footle
Circadian
Blaring klaxons rouse the weary
Fumble for steaming mug of pain
Stiletto sunrise, eyes bleary
Sandman’s Valium starts to drain

Resplendent youth line up for inculcation
Foreheads kissed, lunchboxes brimming
Then...

Read more of this work...
Categories: jockeying, day, life, love, morning,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Black and Blue Friday
BLACK AND BLUE FRIDAY

First – the carbo-loading
monster meal to sustain
the beast that drives
the cornerstone of greed
in mindless hunt for “bargains”.

Next – jockeying for position
awaiting the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: jockeying, humor,
Form: Free verse
Nope Not Even a Brief History
Nope Not Even A Brief History...
About Month Named December

The Latin root (albeit - lo'
(mein lee) first two syllables
i. e. decem) - no
joking - translate to...

Read more of this work...
Categories: jockeying, creation, fate, january, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Patchwork Musings
Patchwork Musings

Vying for order
This square
That corner
One's center

These squared-off life experiences
Know well jockeying for position
Is fraught with chance
Disappointment
Acceptance

The waking state knows

Nothing resolves naturally
No stitch in one's...

Read more of this work...
© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jockeying, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Noises That Cry and Shout
Noises That Cry And Shout


                    ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: jockeying, feelings, funeral, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Early Morning
Early Morning

I wish to capture in some way,
With words, the ineffable
Images, and sounds of quiet,
In a time without man sounds.

Early morning awakened by
The first glimmer...

Read more of this work...
Categories: jockeying, morning, spring,
Form: Free verse
The Battle In My Head
left left left right left
army marches to the sound 
of boots in in time 
like a wall of robots

fast movers climb
jockeying for position 
only to...

Read more of this work...
Categories: jockeying, death, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who Is Right
Everybody has a point of view to express…that’s one of the joys of being free.
But what happens in a country when two sides completely disagree?

We...

Read more of this work...
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jockeying, inspiration,
Form: Verse
What We Do To Win, Part I
I long have been a trail-runner,
and my name is Art Constantine,
sprinting peaks is a thigh-burner,
just as tiring as it seems,
I started this at seventeen.

Most people...

Read more of this work...
Categories: jockeying, heart, life, meaningful, men,
Form: Narrative
Day Rains Love's Door Unto His King
Imagining, if we had leaders as rulers, governments, kings and queens
Around her world where their greatest priority was, the well being of every
Life within these...

Read more of this work...
Categories: jockeying, art, baby, beautiful, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Mediation
Mediation

I wish to capture in some way
With words, the ineffable
Images, and sounds of quiet,
In a time without man sounds.

Early morning awakened by
The first glimmer of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: jockeying, nature,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things