Long Outpace Poems
Long Outpace Poems. Below are the most popular long Outpace by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Outpace poems by poem length and keyword.
Stillness in November
Over harvested fields —
I walk beneath the fading afterglow
of a forgotten lantern a path worn
by wanderers older than the scroll of Zeno
its damp salve seeping through my coat
into my bones
Fog an Erebian curtain...
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Categories:
outpace, autumn, farm, november,
Form:
Pastoral
The Ballad of Circumlocution
In realms where thought and tempests meet
where shifting sands outpace the feet
a creature stirs with cunning guise
Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies
its words like desert viper’s sting
they strike the heart then coil and cling.
Through jungles thick...
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Categories:
outpace, allegory, allusion, confusion, philosophy, society, vanity,
Form:
Ballad
Seeking Assurance
I am sad
and need reassurance
this choice was not bad
at the time of searching
Home's new-found voice,
and is not bad
now,
and will not be bad
and sad
in my shortening future.
Diminishing now
into year by year forecasts,
no longer this seventh decade
by...
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Categories:
outpace, earth day, health, humor, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
A Definite Bonehead Moment
A definite bonehead moment
since revised when das scribe
made laughing stock of himself
(circa ~ 8:30 post meridiem
December twenty eighth, 2022).
A retrospective account
revisited courtesy the following
honest to dog doe eyed,
doofus dopey dilemma
allows,...
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Categories:
outpace, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, angel, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Achilles and the Tortoise
In ancient times as told in rhymes
there was a hero Greek
Whose mother said, “Before you’re dead
you should go out and seek
The glorious fame that goes...
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Categories:
outpace, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories of Fishes Oh Wow
A puddle of fish. A fountain. A silver dish. Never try to outpace a whale as they are particularly good at breaststroke. And please don't slam the lid on the peanuts in a tin as...
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Categories:
outpace, beach,
Form:
I do not know?
My Mirror Adversary
My father always told me
My strongest adversary
Was my own reflection.
In the mirror,
It always shadowed me-
My own personal monster
I could never escape from.
I learned to hate my reflection.
The biggest problem was
My mirror adversary
Grew with me.
I could...
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Categories:
outpace, depression, emotions, growing up, identity, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Unstretched: My Mirror Adversary
My father always told me my strongest adversary was my own reflection.
In the mirror, It always shadowed me- my own personal monster I could never escape from.
I learned to hate my reflection.
The biggest problem was...
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Categories:
outpace, mirror,
Form:
Free verse
The Wanderer Returns By Ron Porter
Across the vastness of the silver sea of pain,
in a cave in the land of "I don't know",
a moonclad maiden waits and weeps,
embroidering her comely countenence
with copious corpulet crystalline tears
and, fears his ship won't make...
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Categories:
outpace, adventure, faith, fantasy, fear, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Stag
Star bright is the Morning sun light.
The green the red the blues and trees.
Water sound a rainbow in the sky.
Grey clouds cover my vision but still the light.
Always the sound a thumping in my ears.
Running...
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Categories:
outpace, animal, beauty, death, peace, poetry, spiritual, sun,
Form:
Free verse
Firearm Requiem
(In memory of the 19 children and two adults killed by gun violence in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022…as well as the countless others who have and who will suffer similar fates.)
Firearm Requiem
By Mark...
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Categories:
outpace, america, children, death, hate, political, school, violence,
Form:
Free verse
New Pain of Loss
A wish, faint and fading, brings tears to eyes;
a wish we know cannot come true.
Life suddenly can bring a dark surprise
that breaks our human hearts...
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Categories:
outpace, brother, death, sister, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
Symphony of Persephone
Drinking red wine
as a
downward shift
A shift toward slowing
down
to see, the softer side
of her
Things that go bump in the
night,
with sweet clattering sounds
but oft go unnoticed
by
the rushed mind of brutes...
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Categories:
outpace, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
modern
I used to be blind, how could I not see,
So many shapes around me, changing endlessly.
How beautiful the stars in the sky’s embrace,
The moon swaying gently on its swinging trace.
We don’t understand the speed as...
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Categories:
outpace, motivation,
Form:
Free verse
This Time Around
The world unravels like a threadbare flag—
stitched in whispers, undone by the weight of sky.
You stand accused of love’s ancient crime,
the heart’s embezzlement, the art of leaving.
But who can blame the eternal lover
when the clock...
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Categories:
outpace, love,
Form:
Free verse
Full Term
"I've lived too long," he ruefully said
As I was moving him to his last home.
"A respectable man would be dead.
My life is an obese, timed-out tome."
Truth lived in the old man's words.
He had reached the...
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Categories:
outpace, age, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Meadow Butterfly
The butterfly, its crimson mottled wings
flitting in the delicate Autumn breeze;
uncurled proboscis taking sweet nectar
from early dawns, newly opened daisies
does not regard the corpses of the men
whose dead eyes ever stare the grass below
fresh attention-seeking...
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Categories:
outpace, beauty, death, life, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
Time
Time
Time, how does it exist? Going far?
No, time can not live far, it is time
Hmm, time is not a time, only far
Hmm, time, far, it is moving time
Time does not exist without far
Object living, moving...
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Categories:
outpace, life, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Life Savior's Hand
It's not much of a race,
science trying to outpace miracle
miracle always being fleeter than the equation
the speed of light is simply quicker than the mind
god's heart burning brighter than the hottest crucible of time
the newest...
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Categories:
outpace, life,
Form:
Free verse
A Summers' Day In Florida
The lake shimmers in the early breeze
Dancing rivulets of light kissed by the rising sun,
Reflecting passing clouds hopscotching with such ease
It heralds a new day just now begun.
Observing its environs with majestic grace
An Ibis...
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Categories:
outpace, appreciation, beauty, bird, nature, summer, sun, sunshine,
Form:
Rhyme
The Long Walk
I can no longer keep up,
your steps far outpace mine.
My gait is now
barely a notch up
from a shuffle. My feet ache.
I watch you bound off
into the distance, powering
yourself towards some set goal
that...
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Categories:
outpace, age, love,
Form:
Free verse
Surreal Reality
Saw a thin fume of carbon
Climbing the dusk;
Chains of children
Marching down the hill
To mount to the fire
That blazed on the mountain
Within no blink
Torching the twilight.
Led the groaning villagers
Following the dark
Until I found myself...
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Categories:
outpace, confusion, dream, poetry, relationship, teenage, tiger,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Twenty-Twenty
A brand new decade, now we face!
Year Twenty-Twenty, let's embrace.
Pray our mistakes we can erase
with better dreams to find and chase-
and stronger faith to grant us grace.
Let's relish life- slow down the pace-
our paths of...
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Categories:
outpace, happy, new year, perspective,
Form:
Monorhyme
Dreams
I know that love is not always
a constant
like aspects of weather, fluctuating by
degrees~ a heart in beat with each
step and direction...
Let us outpace all hate...or else reside
with resentment, where the failure to forgive
and move beyond.......
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Categories:
outpace, dream, freedom, imagery, imagination, truth, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Something Borrowed
Tick-tock ya can’t rewind
Time doesn’t stop or fall behind
Clock hands cut like a sharpened knife
Time doesn’t lose it runs your life
Born with a cry blink then you're grown
Chasing years you’ll never own
Gold turns gray fast...
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Categories:
outpace, time,
Form:
Free verse