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Breakneck Poems - Poems about Breakneck

Breakneck Poems - Examples of all types of poems about breakneck to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for breakneck.
Premium Member NO RED LIGHT DO WE SEE
...What reckless joyride we humans are on, For we know not what greets us at the end. With brain-washed minds we need not comprehend. So in ignorance we just speed along. We tell ourselves all’s wel......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, destiny,
Form: Sonnet



1958
... Hillary drives a vehicle to the south pole, Gibson gives us the Flying V. In football we can now score an extra two points, and Legos blocks first hit the street. 50 inches of snow on Mason D......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Iberian Cross-Roads
...We drive breakneck over hot roads. Churches, big as cathedrals, rocket from pocket villages. Castillo's cast their campanile on the baking earth. The Great Mosque of Cordoba, the green Alhambr......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Formidable flourishing fiends
...Formidable flourishing fiends... harangue since landing yours truly immersed in a dream-like fiercesome state of war, not quite a dream can be described as a "hypnagogic state" whil......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, angst, animal, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Psychologically still thirteen
...Psychologically still thirteen Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days familiarization with me would entail bringing the avid listener into my private mancave hideaways less a physical place th......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, 7th grade, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Madcap Victorian Horsewomen
...Those madcap Victorian horsewomen were super confident Silly when you realize they were riding at breakneck speeds, sidesaddle In those day a woman did not know it was okay to wear pants. The clos......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Wait For the Laughter
...Where does laughter go when it's done? What becomes of joyful sounds that are spun? Do those waves fly off and tarry somewhere, to another dimension, or just hang in midair? Does that ene......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, longing, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cracked
...Cracked often reminds me of pecan nuts. Cracked also reminds me of earthquake scars. Mostly cracked reminds me of Jerry Butts Who loved driving Italian racing cars. When he drove, Jerry often m......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, car, dance, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death
...And when the end comes it comes very fast indeed Not always in slow motion but at breakneck speed Said the Woodpecker to the larva, I kill Swiftly to feed! But you’re just a Cuckoo see ho......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, allegory, death, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Falcon
...I can recall another lifetime, one where I could fly Gazing down upon the earth, moonlight glinting in my eye A king among the stars with a piercing call that could terrify I was once a mighty fal......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, adventure, beautiful, bird, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Riders Up
...I stood at the rail, watching a filly called Midnight Black and breathed in the pungent scent of liniment and leather. Love for Thoroughbred racing lures me back to the track, even when the course......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, horse, race,
Form: Rhyme
The Workshops of Nirvana
...I’m the Seller of Rainbows Purveyor of such Delights Adding joy and pleasure to So many Rituals and Rites. Sliding through the portals In connected webs of space Physically always staying In ......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, allegory, art, beauty, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Hours
...Some hours race by at breakneck speed, So fast they’re almost blurry, As if, like fire trucks on call, They’re in the biggest hurry. While other hours move like snails Or just like taffy, stre......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, time,
Form: Rhyme
To Find Starlight Dig In Mud
...when he spoke words broke like glass between his teeth 14 minutes past 8PM 7 weeks after the red river in his brain ran almost dry he the acidic and sullen shadow of his youth turned to me (one......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Realm of Poppycock
...In the realm of poppycock sidewalks sing When stepping on melodies in the cracks, You’ll enjoy the height of the smallest thing The exotic ponies with pink-striped backs. Beware the c......Read the rest...
Categories: breakneck, fantasy, fun, silly,
Form: Rhyme

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