Best Sprinter Poems

On your mark!
Thus day light becomes dark
And the ticking clock
Dances frighteningly away
Right behind my back
With burdens hanging loosely on the rack.

Set?!
Still unsettled while night sprints away
Along this track of red and white spray
With slumbering emblazoning ray
And the silent crack of the umpire’s stray
Lord! Please do...

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Snowflakes
Keepsakes

Wind blows
Breath froze


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My headache is a sprinter
And my Advil likes to trot,
But I'm a desperate sucker
So I give it one more shot.

The finish line approaches,
As I am well aware.
I'd hoped for a conclusion
Like the tortoise and the hare.

Alas, though, it's the headache
That has got the Advil beat
And...

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