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Hurtling Poems - Poems about Hurtling

Hurtling Poems - Examples of all types of poems about hurtling 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 hurtling.
Zen Death Haiku XI
...ZEN DEATH HAIKU XI These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Above the garden the camellia tree blossoms whitely... —Uejima Onitsura, loose translation by Michae......Read More
Categories: hurtling, age, analogy, angst, animal,
Form: Haiku



At The Track
...An institution for the average man and also for the Toff The gun blasts, the gates fly open. They’re off. Eight magnificent Steeds already to win the race. Trampling all before them, galloping at......Read More
Categories: hurtling, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Forever Altered
... The sound of metal scraping on asphalt, echoed through the frosty morning air, as the trailer slid and skidded, leaving chaos and destruction there. The semi-truck came hurtling fast, its trailer......Read More
Categories: hurtling, anxiety, change, emotions, how
Form: Rhyme
Lullaby
...Goodnight and good sleep little one Off to bed, no tears to cry Dream your dreams until dawn sun This is an attempt at lullaby My best I swear I'll try I believe they start with falling cradle......Read More
Categories: hurtling, Lullaby, silly,
Form: Quintain (English)
Tempting Fate
...I used to walk carefree around this world, My shoulders light and free of any chips Not thinking fate would ever come unfurled By nonsense escaping naïve lips I thought Murphy ’s Law was ludac......Read More
Categories: hurtling, fate, humorous, life,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Fear is a Liar
... Fear, a liar that can delude or mislead you. It tells you that you are cursed and doomed. Have courage to stop and look at Fear in the face! It comes, like hooded serpents from......Read More
Categories: hurtling, allusion, angst, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member two step
...fall into this grey morning into soft feathery folds of misty bliss limbs flailing swishing the sky streaking tumbling hurtling by through atmosphere too thick to see you descending......Read More
Categories: hurtling, angel, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shakespeare in 2023
... What is this lodging and people strangeth Yond walketh but never see Looking as the screen doest changeth Laughing with mirth and glee And roaring beasts runneth up the roads Li......Read More
Categories: hurtling, change, confusion, history, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Void in the fire
...the fire is contained its noxious gray exhalation dissipates its horror briefly subdued (a bomb cyclone detonates) memories of the departed in a cold lifeless room fading into numbing nullifi......Read More
Categories: hurtling, dark, death, life, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love for New Year
...Midnight was approaching. A New Year is in the offing. I see her a few yards from me. Lovely, enchanting, alluring. We smile, we approach, Silently we clink glasses, Sip the bubbly drink. The......Read More
Categories: hurtling, new year,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tomorrow Is Promising
...Focusing on what might’ve been is a tedious affair Worrisome, too, and, shall I say, quite problematic, For what might’ve been is obviously a tricky lair I am convinced it’s the farthe......Read More
Categories: hurtling, future, hope, perspective, uplifting,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Birds In Flight
...Across the tops of clouds they skate like skipping rocks across a pond. A blanket, downy soft, enshrouds and obfuscates their earthly bonds. The white seas part to let them pass; the turbulenc......Read More
Categories: hurtling, appreciation, flying,
Form: Quatrain
TO A POINT
...TO A POINT As the wedge thins to the end And all options have dissipated Time for alternatives has passed Just straight on into the buffers Maybe then this crazy life of late Hurtling on at i......Read More
Categories: hurtling, destiny, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Waterfall
... Glisten fluid slosh, Plunging, hurtling, misting beads, Scouring stone ......Read More
Categories: hurtling, appreciation, beauty, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku
Child-Stept Interminglings
...Leaping, though mud-soaked Splattered of face Out those rains, with toads. Less in disgrace! Hurtling, though with burs Bee stings o'er me Down those steeps, bump, bump Summer-possessed, Wi......Read More
Categories: hurtling, child,
Form: Rhyme

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