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Best Running The Race Poems


Premium Member Kentucky's Senator Mitch Mcconnell
...Mitch McConnell is a long distance runner,and he runs to win,and he has been running the race,and never gives in!!!Derby Day is his friend in "Louisville Kentucky,and when he bets on the "Derby Ho......

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Categories: running the race, 12th grade, america, anger,
Form: Ballad
Ghetto Life
...GHETTO LIFE

I'm just a black guy trying to survive
I hustle hard, just for me to live
I was born and bred in the ghetto,
And the only place I could earn money is not only at the lotto

I was ......

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Categories: running the race, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Aloha
...Hello? Are you there today?
Have I scared you away?
Spent my whole teenage life, 
Preparing for this day of strife 
To say my goodbye's
To your love-me-not lies
Oh well, oh well
I'm not saying......

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Categories: running the race, deep, desire, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



The Girl
...The Girl
I know a girl,
With a smile that could
Melt stone into silk.
She sits in the front, ahead of me,
In my class, making me wonder what would
Happen if I could go forward, so she could see......

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Categories: running the race, anxiety, death, depression, emo,
Form: Ballad
Scenematic 1
...Movie in the making, viewer discretion
Keep your mouth shut, forget witness protection
Better keep it discreet, avoid detection
Complete the play, can't afford a deflection
This the real deal, it ain......

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Categories: running the race, character, humorous, life, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Baton, a Letter To My Children
...Dear Pam, Curt, and Jem.

Pam, my father, your grandfather, died when I was 13 years of age.
When I was 36, I had been fatherless for 23 years.  So many times,
 I would have loved to have sought ......

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Categories: running the race, analogy, family, father, future,
Form: Prose



Dreams Sought
...A war inside must be fought
                                    to find the purpose of dreams
                                    sought.
                                    Trying to put the lies......

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Categories: running the race, visionarywar, war,
Form: Free verse
A Tale of Two Dolphins
...A Tale of Two Dolphins

Two dolphins swam merrily over to the wharf
One was named Silly and the other was named Sally
Silly told Sally that if she could outswim her to the booey
That she would g......

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Categories: running the race, children, funny, irony,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Triumph Luster
...Triumph luster can forever last against stain! 
Verily true when won thru God’s might and His grace 
With faith in His might as the Supreme sovereign.

Victory medals glow with accomplish......

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Categories: running the race, character, christian, faith, god,
Form: Villanelle
The Road Not Taken-The Reincarnation
...The False Prophet took a piece of paper out of his pocket. It was a poem. While 
writing it, he remembered, he felt like he was solving a puzzle. Originally, when 
Joe Kaye first developed the theo......

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Categories: running the race, childhood, sports, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Friend Zone
...She says, that all good guys are takin or gays.
Always complaining about the bad boys playing games and she is tired of playing chase.
She has a gold medal but she is still running the race.
What ......

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Categories: running the race,
Form: Epic
Premium Member It's Not About Winning
...It’s not about Who's winning
Who’s running the Race
The Pace set before us
Is a Vision a place
The next is all errors
All falling so short
Near to hearts open with 
A new View for a start
All......

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Categories: running the race, appreciation, celebration, confusion, extended
Form: Rhyme
Time To Change - E
...When the things you feel 
aren't real 
and the colors that you've seen
are actually black and white

When your loved ones words never mean
a thing, and they were the ones who started up a fight......

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Categories: running the race, confusion, life, song-teen, life,
Form:
I Am Either Alive Or Dead
... Me too I don't know
I just go silent and rise up again
I just survive on nothing all day
And Its normal here
We all stink for each other
And see it cool
paupers and princes whatever
I......

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Categories: running the race, africa, change, conflict, dedication,
Form:
Better To Let Go
...Literally feeling like dying of boredom…
Feeling like a freak, unleashing dumb foolishness while drunk on rum
My noggin is full of negativity and positivity mixed together
My cranium is about to e......

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Categories: running the race, courage, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry