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Best Velocity Poems

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


Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: velocity, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Home Is Where the Heart Is
"Home is Where the Heart Is"



Savages 
behind closed doors
Civilised 
but wild animals
sharpening claws
Humanity 
tries to escape itself
can’t run away 
from finding
"TRUE HOME"
behind closed doors
Now opening...

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Categories: velocity, freedom, imagery, life,
Form: Free verse
A Ship Is Safe In the Harbor
A ship is safe in the harbor,
But that's not what ships are built for.

Because in the sum of our human gleams,
We have created the vessel...

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© Gael Attal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: velocity, adventure, nature, sea, uplifting
Form: Couplet
Premium Member About Me - P.D.
"TELL YOU ABOUT ME "
   
Born a full blown Libra to a scale of blind justice
My hair & eyes are brown as can...

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Categories: velocity, life, lovecare, me, care,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Let Me Translate
Let me translate
My love for you
From written.... to spoken....to touched
From syllable sensuality
To physical functionality
From verbal to nonverbal virtual reality

Or better yet
Let me translate them into...

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Categories: velocity, language, sensual,
Form: Free verse



The New Nigerian
Chosen for a reason
In a season
Not by the dozen
But individually
To be born
A Nigerian
One who can run
Through the thorns of life
Without being cut
By its spikes
Into a...

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Categories: velocity, black african american, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dinosaurs
~Dinosaurs~


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X-FILES
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fossil of all time
creatures of mother nature
mysterious death
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SHOW ME THE MONEY!
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bones found in the dirt
deep under the Earth's surface
museum makes money
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RUN FORREST! RUN!
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tyrannosaurus
no pity chasing...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: velocity, history, life, mystery
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Words For Those With No Voice
Words For Those With No Voice

For every pair of shoes
All the burnt bones and woes
In the millions, in the mud
All died alone

Starving of food and...

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Categories: velocity, allah, death, evil, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poet Stamp 2011
This is for you, Mystic Rose,
The closest cyber encounter family tree, my spree
Harry Horsman, Sara K, summer's gone, let's haiku and play.
Achoo contest, butterflies, Parise...

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Categories: velocity, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Timelessness Is To Being
My past already lived,
my unknown future is the only place to travel-
beyond paradoxes or predictions,
 I could stand in a world beyond a human life...

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Categories: velocity, change, future, pain, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
My Monster
among you and I and among us all
remains a feeling of shallow intoxication
that seems to play on and on and on in our respective heads
as...

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Categories: velocity, conflict, depression, niece, suicide,
Form: Blank verse
A Storm Came Late
Frigid, knife-edged winds from the northwest
sweep down like hungry raptors on 
pewter gray skies. Feral eyed, keen on destruction.
Late May. Sullen skies discharge sleet and...

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Categories: velocity, nature, spring, storm,
Form: Free verse
A Day Scar Drama
Soundly you sleep, your insides at ease.
Beside you, I surge an uncharted storm of fearsome break 
for it thunder-threatens my own sun’s velocity melt.
Your breathing...

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Categories: velocity, betrayal, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Symphony Number 2 -
Life greeted Death
with an epoch
from the depths of dusk
with a dawn,

the sun rose lucid
with it's soft spotted infant rose
now awake,
hanging heavily harnessed
in the steaming swaying...

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Categories: velocity, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Seeking, Searching
We have strained the edges of the universe,
you and I together, seeking, searching
on cosmic trails for justice love and fear,
I loved thee then, as I...

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Categories: velocity, imaginationlove, universe,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs