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Best Speedway Poems

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Speedway
there was blue and green flying on the screen
in my grandparents' basement
i was there for a week, i was sleepwalking
but i always woke up in...

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Categories: speedway, childhood, depression, grandparents, growing
Form: Lyric



Makeshift Rat Traps On a Deserted Speedway
here is my soul speaking softly
you take it in, and resolution warms the union
we converse like a lazy sunday revisited
we take a trip by becoming...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: speedway, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Interview
Sitting in a cloak of black conservatism:

I feel my hands,
oily on the desk like shortening in
slate gray cookie pans,
the speedway inside forcing the absence of...

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Categories: speedway, business, funny, on work
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sick
Being sick with a snotty nose
A cough, fatigue, one of those colds???
For goodness sake's everyone knows
Grandmothers are too sophicated 
To wear anything but fancy clothes
Surely...

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Categories: speedway, feelings, funny, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Charlotte Sweet Charlotte
Charlotte Sweet Charlotte
You are quiet tonight
You can still see the stars from your streets
A city so charming
And filled with delight
This southerner sure can compete

Unlike other...

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Categories: speedway, community, football, mountains, places,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Where I Was Born
Where I was Born
        by Bob Moore (c) 2017 
        ...

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Categories: speedway, family, father, life, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Birthday Dear Sister
Happy birthday, my love….
Today you turn forty-seven years old, dear sister... 
May your wings shine brighter today than ever before.

May my smile bring you joy...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: speedway, birthday, death, dedication, sister,
Form: Verse
Sea Grape For Michael
This is not Miami, the real site
of the sea grape.  This is a wannabe--
a biker town, a speedway town.  Not 
the fabled city...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: speedway, for him,
Form: Blank verse
Angel In the Flesh
Rare beauty,
blue diamond,
your smile burns a hole through the seams of my soul,
Isaac Newton was wrong,
This love will never descend,
eye contact,
I think an atom split,
B
O
O
M
nobody...

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Categories: speedway, beautiful, beauty, first love,
Form: Free verse
Moving Forward
Moving Forward

People are judged by their past,
No matter how clean they may be now. 
People toss out the new you, 
And focus on the old...

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Categories: speedway, change, encouraging, future, moving
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Southern Hospitality and a Shot of Comfort
There is an aura for the moment looking gloom 
Closing in on climatic resolution known as high noon 
Weather was dealt the color grey 
Heavy...

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Categories: speedway, america, car, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Elvis a Tribute
BORN IN THE SMALL TOWN 
DEEP IN THE HEART OF, MISSISSIPPI 
WAS A YOUNG COUNTRY SINGER 
NAMED ELVIS PRESLEY 
YOU WERE A MAN WITH SOUL...

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Categories: speedway, music, people, thank you,
Form: I do not know?
In God We Trust: Senryu Part Ii
7/6/22
Drying fallen tears
Oh where is the death bed now
Very forgotten

7/5/22
Empathy signs on
Yes, in the depths of darkness
Light consumes the soul

6/29/22
Abscesses are not
Easily brushed away
Cleansing is...

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Categories: speedway, anxiety, beautiful, christian, community,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Western Springs
 High-ho! High-ho! High-ho!
  it’s off to the pub and gig we go
 Willy Wonka ticket stubs in our hand
  on our way...

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Categories: speedway, music,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Romantic Meltdown
At no time did our lives ever bond; instead, we became a cacophony of confusion. I can't imagine why we assumed that surface and skin-deep...

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Categories: speedway, anxiety, beautiful, boyfriend, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things