Hurtling Poems - Poems about Hurtling

...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

...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

... 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

...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

...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

... 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

...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

... 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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

... Glisten fluid slosh, Plunging, hurtling, misting beads, Scouring stone ......Read More

...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