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Cross Country Poems - Poems about Cross Country

Cross Country Poems - Examples of all types of poems about cross country 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 cross country.
Premium Member Cross-Country Running
...When short and running a cross country race The short guys know when to pick up the pace Just as we start up the hills For we know they’ll be some spills Odds say the tall men may fall on their f......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, funny, games, high school,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Pebbled Stream
... Rocks and streams from pebbled ruins, Makes my feet moan and groan. Water rushing, Never flushing the dirt from years gone past! Hurts my toes as I meander by. A journey that con......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Body Ails Yet Spirit Soars
...Fifty-one autumns ago on a vibrant blue sky morn, I was running in my high school girl's cross-country race in Bethpage Park, Long Island, N.Y., as many ponytails bounced under canopies of red, o......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Way Side
...They left their lovely home to fulfill a promise that was not found, one big happy family board up their house pack their luggage in the back of a truck and went in search of a new place that they co......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, business, community, environment, international,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Co-Exist
...Faceless head of coal Below him arms swing legs steam Over the apex of a highway bridge The spooky figure Cross-country skis on the concrete Glides right to left across the frost of my windshi......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, anxiety, confusion, endurance, mystery,
Form: Free verse



The Immigrant Song
...I have a song to sing and it will tell you where I have been, in the shadows of the night the fear of hope break through daylight and destiny begins the journey without shoes. They left their hom......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, appreciation, beautiful, business, career,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Skiing Is
...Skiing Is… Skiing is… Alpine thrill ride on four inch boards Boggy in the bumps – a schuss to the lodge Carving a turn leaving icy rooster tails in the air Drag lift to ride on thick moving r......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, fun, winter,
Form: List
Friend
...There are days when this sudden emptiness creeps upon me and pervades my anatomies, looking for someone to blame and choking the daylight out of me. It is the feeling you get when you start to sweat ......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, africa, break up, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Were a Country
...We were a country where people roamed free where you drove cross-country without paying a fee We were a country where folks dreamed big outside of Washington where men wore wigs We wer......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, freedom, history, nostalgia, today,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member From Uss Arizona To Gate a 51
...All I've seen is a black star in the night sky, We fell asleep after our cross-country awry. In my dream, I saw weak, cynical starlight, Subtle as a map packed toward the plight. C......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, america, analogy, appreciation, community,
Form: Rhyme
Tired Bodies Taking Over
...working 12 straight days she falls asleep on my thigh no blood circulation, but i just smile anyway my whole leg will soon be going to sleep with her working 7 straight 12 hour shifts my eyes ......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, life, sleep, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Adventures In a Blue Fiat
...I owned a FIAT,or in truth.did it own me? It did break down with a remarkable, clock like regularity. My thin finances, this car did hungrily eat. As I was sent from being adriver, to walk the s......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, adventure, car, heartbroken, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Across Country With Crystalsky
...Hello CRYSTALSKY*. Thanks for consenting to watch over us. ......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, america, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Occupational Therapy
...I’ve been working since I was twelve years old, But my first on-the-books job Was as a sailor in the US Navy, Gunners Mate. Six years and three Westpac deployments. Fifty months of sea duty Cha......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, work,
Form: List
Premium Member Monoku Monday - Jan 2021
..."2020 Hindsight Collaboration" Posted 4 Jan 2021 new year's resolutions things that go in one year and out the other I resolve to avoid all fatty and unhealthy... ......Read the rest...
Categories: cross country, new year,
Form: Monoku

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