Best Marathon Poems

Today the New York Marathon's
Become a non-event.
The runners' opportunities
To race both came and went.

At first the mayor said it's on,
Despite the storm's destruction;
And then, last minute, pulled the plug
And gave a new instruction.

The racers coming to New York
Most likely were confused;
And those who paid for...

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10/20/2023

Those tanned, shapely legs of mine,
where have you gone?
No longer have I the ability to run!

Nor feel the glorious, salt water spray,
from my beloved, San Francisco Bay!
That kissed my sweating, dawn face.

Those foggy morns, the busy hands of
time have erased.
Some other body now, in its...

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With takeovers bankers are set
But Capital One's is a threat
Owning Discover
As surrogate mother
Makes Visa and Mastercard sweat...

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MARATHON DROPS

marathon drops jazz
over leaves, roof and human
spray awhile but later flood
oozing lightning rush
like smooch bearing tragic trance
nature's warn to mankind faults?

(c) Olive Eloisa
9:08 pm
September 19, 2014

***This a tiny poem describing one condition brought about by typhoons to our Country: Philippines..

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Are you ready, set and go 
Never look back just go 
The way is rough
And the journey is tough
Sometimes you cough 
Because the air is not enough
Sometimes for your survival 
As the world is waiting for your arrival
The journey is far 
Like the distant between...

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40th Marathon For 70 Year Old

Almost in disbelief, I reread the headline of this one particular online piece of news….
A 72-year-old Retiree Just Ran His 40th New York Marathon, screams the title of this news…

Reading on, Dave Obelkevich, he has done the most consecutive New...

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Limerick : Once a Time-Keeper at race Marathon

Once (a) Time-Keeper at race Marathon
Decided to keep time on the run
He kept looking at watch
Runners forgot to watch
Ended up in Tower of London.

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013...

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Morning; I awake
with stiffness in my
lank legs.
Yesterdays long run
has taken its toll
on my
ungrateful, ageing
body....

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Many years ago when we were all young,                          we dated looking for a mate.                                       ...

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He approaches me with want in his eye,
“Didn’t we just do this?” I bid with a sigh,
I contest that we ventured a marathon mile,
His gleam is so perfect with a downward smile.

How can I resist such a simple request?
The joy beats deeply in his quivering...

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On this day of tradition 
Many years of good memories
Now many remembering tragedy
Many years reversed 
By single day of misery

They always ran
Ran for victory
Some for personal reason
But on this day they ran 
They ran for safety

Always remembered as the first
But now a forgotten history
Only remembering...

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no doubt sympathetic poured in exceeding a ton
sans the reverberations from the supposed terroristic act doth stun
although neither a native bostonian son nor one who opts to run
my track record racks up with any manner of pun
yet only tears for deadly explosions 
 and incalculable...

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You tuft-eared Lynx

Once wild and free in home habitat

You became a specimen of science

Specimen BC-03-M-02

Captured near Kamloops Canada

Caged and sent to Colorado

To sire babies and enrich gene pools.

But once released they couldn’t keep you!

You yearned for home and family

Felt an urge to trek homeward-bound

You started...

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Last night, I awoke drenched in a cold sweat..

At the finish line, a lei placed around my neck.

The cameras clicked, oh, how the crowd roared!

The joy, rumbled to be once again, adored!

I had ran hill and dale, to be at the top.

Tired of wheelchairs, this...

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The Real Pheidippides

Athenian messenger Pheidippides
Died 30 years before the birth of Thucydides
Most famous hemerodrome day-runner
Ran a 300-mile ultramarathon stunner...

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