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Best Neck And Neck Poems

Below are the all-time best Neck And Neck poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of neck and neck poems written by PoetrySoup members


Neck and Neck
In competition, neck and neck
They held each other's pace.
The crowd was rooting silently
The whole entire race.

The both of them so well-prepared,
They'd practiced and they'd trained,
So...

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Categories: neck and neck, words,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Stepping Through Time
A gauzy haze rises from the flickering gas light, 
               ...

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Categories: neck and neck, imagery, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme
The Devil and the Poet
The devil in a moment of weakness did challenge a poet to a battle of words.

I HEAR YOU ARE AT THE TOP OF YOUR GAME
Said...

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Categories: neck and neck, allusion, class, confidence, conflict,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Ultimate Spirit Animal Is Deer
If you have never been in touch with a spirit animal
follow me for you have simply not paid attention
I have so many I am a...

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Categories: neck and neck, animal, native american, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Ballad To the Ancestors
A BALLAD TO THE ANCESTORS

Like ripened fruits plucked from a flourishing tree,
They were stolen from a lush paradise garden;
A self sustained dwelling having no need...

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Categories: neck and neck, allegory, black african american,
Form: Ballad



Unsung - a Sestina
My brother, Lincoln Beachey, made my life a wonder,
Mother's eyes were full of him and loved how he was bold	
I was the shadow elder son...

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Categories: neck and neck, brother, celebrity, courage, dream,
Form: Sestina
Up Up and Away
Up, up and away they said,
as they sailed over the blue and the red,
hugging each other and holding on tight,
the Donald and Hillary on election...

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Categories: neck and neck, adventure, allusion, humor, political,
Form: Light Verse
The Good Son
having fallen through the cracks of the dwindling economy
making his way backward to his
home town,
as the result of many choices gone awry
he lives with his...

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Categories: neck and neck, life, father, father, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Violins
Violins plucking strings
of horsehair, satin ribbons
violet violate a dark
foresaken world
like a beautiful dream 
romance unravels 
the sweet pain 
comes undone
then those wild horses
dance macabre neck-to-neck
racing...

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Categories: neck and neck, muse, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Reluctance of the Young Runner
The Reluctance of the Young Runner

           by Edmund Siejka

He was a gawky teenager
On a high...

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Categories: neck and neck, life,
Form: Narrative
Quak, Quak,Quak
Quak, quak, quak...
Thee my sovereign dame;
Hi.. Remember!
The day we took oath,
Witnessed by lotus, 
In this lake;
I looked up in sky,
Then face to face,
And eye to...

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Categories: neck and neck, i love you, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Tale a Giraffe Took a Long Time To Swallow
The young giraffe ate a hot red pepper
The poor animal felt like a leper.
The spicy fruit was too hot and it took
Her long to digest...

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Categories: neck and neck, animal,
Form: Couplet
And They Are Off
And they are off

Only a whiskers breadth parted they
As six spun round the corner over lands mud gray,
And sounds came loud from thundering hoofs
Louder then...

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Categories: neck and neck, animals,
Form: I do not know?
Baby, Grew Up With Some Fangs
Battling straight from the gate again today; flesh as 
Spirit neck and neck down time's back stretch ? Historia's
Derby goo goo girls google boys; holding...

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Categories: neck and neck, angel, art, autumn, love,
Form: I do not know?
Republicans Are Really a Rip
Republicans Are Really a Rip (Rest In Peace)

Took a jab at Jeb
Who might be a Johnny Reb
Should he ebb and ebb?

Full of ridicule
Candidates can be...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: neck and neck, encouraging,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs