Best Stragglers Poems

I watched the runners racing by,
The leaders like gazelles;
And hours later came the stragglers
In their living hells.

The early racers had the crowds
All cheering their support.
For those still chugging on at dusk,
Such comforting fell short.

The packs in front had sunshine,
Water, camera crews and food,
Keeping smiles and...

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The distant sound of hoopbeats stirs the air
those clouds sweet dusty dreams of yesteryear
float lazily across his fluttering eyes
crease wrinkled face to smile and eyes to tear.

They rode, this ragged trio, on the winds
the age of youthful never ending friends
a-gallop in a world where horses...

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