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Best Sprints Poems

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


Premium Member Abigail's Spring - POTW
Abigail’s Spring  

Beneath the shelter of winter’s barren arbor
My winter abused heart
Watches the day’s light linger in the sky resisting darkness -
Begging to play...

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Categories: sprints, life, spring,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member So Much About Living She Has Learned Since
Grit in her eyes beaming fortitude of vibes
Powers her dash from one end to the other
Handing out drinks: brandy, whiskey, beer;
Serving high rollers and surly...

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Categories: sprints, angst, courage, dad, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Nights In the South
Summer Nights in the South


Green fireflies blink in the quiet of night

and our sleeping old dog heaves a sigh.

Dreaming, she sprints through a youthful blue...

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Categories: sprints, america, august, beautiful, bird,
Form: Quatrain
True Athlete
People don't play sports because its fun, ask any athlete most of them hate it, but 
they couldn't imagine their life without it. 

Its part...

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Categories: sprints, sports, uplifting, visionary, hate,
Form: Bio
Grow Old With Me
My dear,
There's nowhere I'd rather be,
Than by your side,
As you grow old with me.

I know we fight and carry on,
We wield our swords for all...

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Categories: sprints, feelings, funny love, happiness,
Form: Lyric



The Agony
It was all heat and sweat. Controlled
anger and subdued agony.
Driving themselves beyond known limits.
Pushing bone, sinew, and muscle.
Expanding capability, while honing ability.
Intimacy with a few...

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Categories: sprints, autumn, football, strength,
Form: Free verse
Helena
She moves in glorious motion,
Her progress marked by many eyes.
A vision to delight the crowd 
gathered together for this her debut.

Coloured ribbons adorn her, as
She...

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Categories: sprints, allegory, beauty,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member The Speed of Time
Time outruns those who don't sprint 
To keep up. It never turns back
Or bothers to wait for idle souls

Why carry coals to Newcastle?
Time misspent is...

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Categories: sprints, poetry, time,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Messi
Argentina's son, a lineage to immigrants
shaped by boyhood aspirations 
diminutive left foot striker
taunted "dwarf" in childhood 
his growth hormone deficiency 
    ...

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Categories: sprints, inspiration, soccer, sports, star,
Form: Free verse
The Horse Trader
The pounding reins
Of yesterday’s tears
Lead me down
The dreary road of today 

The joy I once found
Gazing into your eyes
Is hobbled by distance
And my faltering gait

Unbridled...

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Categories: sprints, allegory, angst, confusion, girlfriend-boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
Once a Leopard
Blackbirds and undulate bush
Trapped in time's tapestry--
The fluid hide of the big leopard
Who leapt on cushioned feet
Once to race the swiftest
Scents in the wind-- A...

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Categories: sprints, animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Band Aids
One blond small frame curled up
     in my lap, an arm around my waist
One small finger trails the leather straps
 ...

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Categories: sprints, baby, child, girl, health,
Form: Free verse
I Swear
Don't ask your heart,
Don't blame it,
Don't chastise your heart,
Don't scorch it,
Make yourself assured
You grasped a true love,
That would never short,
Because I made it as hard...

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Categories: sprints, 10th grade,
Form: Concrete
Silent Fights
When we fight in silence, like titans abound by egos
An eager poet overcome by words.
A beautiful model delicate as raindrops
When the silence in the room...

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Categories: sprints, africa, devotion, for her,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Evolution of No 1 Tu Love - 'Warning: Depressive'
EVOL UT I ON ... NO 1 TU LOVE
(The Eden Agenda III)


I have loved most everyone, yet so few have loved me back.

So much good...

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Categories: sprints, christian, depression, faith, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs