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Best Speed Poems

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


Premium Member That Potent Urge -Gotta Go, Gotta Go Right Now
I think no stimulus could be
as potent as the one to pee.
A feeling frequent and innate
is this - the urge to urinate.
It comes each day...

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Categories: speed, home,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member African Anthology
walking gracefully  
with a pendulum movement ~
a herd of giraffes   

the mass migration
crocodiles at the river~
food for the taking

gazelles are running ...

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Categories: speed, africa, animal, nature, water,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Sunrise Meditation
Stop in your tracks

Take a deep breath
Stop and relax

Close your eyes
Exhale a slow deep breath

In your mind’s eye 
It’s early dawn
It’s quiet and serene around...

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Categories: speed, freedom, inspirational, introspection, motivation,
Form: Free verse
There Is No Telling the Things You Might Find
Picking a rose in a garden of Sundays
Calling your name on a broken branch wind
Looking for clover where weeds are not welcome
Walking the bridge till...

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Categories: speed, fun, love, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Boldly Go
My training at Starfleet was over, they were now deploying me
I was over the moon when they called; I was full of glee
I entered the...

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Categories: speed, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rest
Rest now
O restless heart
released in ebb   to flow

ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise!...

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Categories: speed, death, freedom, heaven, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gothic Love Grind
I find you alone
in your favorite room of sorrow and suspense,
the woman I cherish more than victory or divine sense,
long untouched, you stare into a...

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Categories: speed, gothic, love, passion,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Portrait of Nature
Each element of who she is, is scattered on the grass, 
with the scent of earth, the drop of rain, 
where dew reflects a sky...

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Categories: speed, earth, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where the Wind Blows
I followed one day a spring breeze at play.
It seemed not to know where to go.
And aimlessly, I - like a butterfly -
meandered with it...

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Categories: speed, wind,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be Bawdy
COME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES ...

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Categories: speed, giggle, jobs,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Apocalypse Now
Running through the Lost Forest of no tomorrows, my heart beats at warp speed as the hideous howls draw nearer. My thoughts briefly digress to...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: speed, anxiety, fear,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Poet -This Poem Is About You
-Dear, Mr & Mrs Poet- 

Do you ever question where it comes from?
This poem's about you, sit down and get a load off 
Tranquilize your...

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Categories: speed, dedication, deep, inspirational, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eternal Recurrence
ETERNAL RECURRENCE*


----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
 I hope to return a thousand...

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Categories: speed, future, life, , atheist,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Soul Travel
Soul Travel

To travel amidst the evening stars
Forever mesmerized by their light...
As visions enter my sleepy head
I marvel my interstellar flight.

The universe is mine to explore
In...

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Categories: speed, stars, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member This Thing Called Love - POTD - With Winged Warrior
POTD 19 September 2017

Apprehensively I tramp with my lamp - through a path shrouded in gloom
Silvery shafts of light entwine and fight through foliage as...

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Categories: speed, love, mystery, romance, woman,
Form: Rhyme

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