Long Sprinter Poems

slang..
up-dogged = when you chip in to keep a conversation trend going
fit = gorgeous
buje = unexplainable glamor
football minute = a minute, that with time-outs, that lasts a half an hour.
crute = cute but cringy
women's-rights =...

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Forge on ever foolish
Cucumbers in your relish
Black Smiths and Peasants 
get into the darkness, out of the Parish


The Red Horse gallops, polls, bearers, of holes
Get out of its way, as the
rumors gather Communist ships
 ...

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people's lives would be less chaotic and probably more sane
if on the road of life they would just stay in their lane
one shouldn't try to preach the gospel if from God you didn't get a...

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STROKIN’ – A QUARTET ABOUT AGING GRACEFULLY(?)
Strokin’: Hauling ass and working at it!

STROKIN’: PART ONE
THE SPRINTER

The aging Olympian ran a swift anchor leg
burning the first turn, striding the backstretch
like a big cat on the chase,...

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My God can budge mountains and if you’re thirsty for his knowledge here’s a fountain
Quit being filthy, it’s clear your starving

Failures are unfamiliar in behalf of your behavior my preaching to you is pray to...

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Turkey's on the table, both legs up
Everything was fine, 'til I made the first cut!

The turkey unleashed a "CACKLE!", then jumped onto the floor
All you could see was basted skin, bolting out the door!

"Catch that...

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The end of my hillbilly blues                             ...

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My hot ice, my sprinter-Turtle, purple rose and my wife,
your creation puzzles nature as every cell in you gives comfort.
So cheerful you are, that your shadow has a dimple
you shed a tear and oxygen pulls...

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I've come a long way,
There's a reason God has me where I am today,
But I can't help looking back,
because across that ocean is what I lack.

That hill I stood on and beheld the water,
It touched...

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For most animals of the wild,  life is all about the next meal and raising their young. For a few horses, it's a sport, and life is all about a 2-minute race in the...

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the man getting beaten curled up into a ball,

with his hands covering his head, instinctively---

the pain from all the blows was so quick & deep that it seemed to

numb him the whole time as his...

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Just like closing a book without reading a page,
Or as to a child who is tired of being a kid;
Like a preacher that won’t stay in a pulpit so long
Or to a sprinter who leaves...

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Beverley is a professional at the Paralympics, 
Because she’s been to five of them including Rio, 
And in London she made the podium’s antics, 
Since she won discus third with a lush glow.

Born the 17th...

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WOMAN & MACHINE

At a small hotel in Vitoria-Gasteiz
working at a table adjacent to a balcony
bounded and protected by an intricate 
wrought-iron barrier rail, I was watching 
pedestrians two stories below, intrigued
by the variety of the...

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If truth has its own thesis
That hardly needs emphasis.
If untruth's antithesis,
Post-truth's perhaps synthesis—
Untruth’s sis, and a miss so famous,
Year twenty sixteen’s pet amorphous!

If unstressed syllable is thesis,
The stressed one's known as arsis,
I need no stress,...

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Kare Adenegan

I love the city of Coventry ‘cos it’s disability friendly, 
Since it houses Great Britain’s national disabled college, 
As Hereward resides there with insight, policies bendy, 
Towards its students who mainstream don’t admonish. 

Kare...

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Bias lurks beneath our outward veneer, unaware.
It hinders our sight, raising unseen walls.
None without exemption is prone to bias.
It is natural and it creeps into our minds, unseen.
Like the ripples of a silent stream, it...

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“Cerebral Palsy affects all my limbs -
particularly in my lower limbs, [my legs] 
and slightly in my upper arms, [hymns] 
…it limits [how far] you can walk, [pegs].

But I’ve been [doing] sport [since a toddler].
I’ve...

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a warm summer day seen 
a sea-scene of rolling glass
a boat and passengers
sun and sunglasses
fishing rods and cameras 
out for a peaceful cruse
when tide and
a storm far away made a rogue wave
that nearly split the...

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Every buddy get his own nigga 
So do every beauty gets his own beholder
While mantrap rides the horse of preference
Duty drives the car of everlasting home 

No one will ever wish losing better thing to...

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Everyone’s ranting about this A.I.
They’re hopping mad but I can’t figure why
It’s just for the best
That things have progressed
I know it’s true… I’m a real modern guy

Tell me what’s wrong with machine written odes
That someone’s...

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A September call-up, pennant race;
Colossal bat and fresh young face.
Believed the hype and promised much
But found a pitch he couldn’t touch.

Fast tracked by coaches for greater good,
From age of nine he swung sweet wood.
Each level...

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David can often be seen hot on the trail, 
Of Richard Whitehead, sprinter, runner, 
And was reported in Rio de Janero’s mail, 
As the 200m bronze medalist, stunner.

He went to St George Catholic College, 
Located...

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I stand on the rocky shores of my island,
Waves crash towards my feet, foaming between my toes on the empty beach.
No Kings. No Masters. No Gods. Only I.
The shores were as barren as the land...

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Libby was 1990 born in Bollington in Cheshire, 
But when she was older, eleven years of age, 
She moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, to admire, 
The Royal Blind School which she did stage. 

She’s a sprinter...

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