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Marathons Poems - Poems about Marathons

Premium MemberSmiles Throughout the Weeks

...Ben and Cora Green had seven children, like calendar pages turning;
Each one born on a different weekday, like mango sun, forever burning.

Zoe was pretty, with big eyes and dimples, while...
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Categories: marathons, birthday, children, family, fantasy,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberReach for Eternity

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      Reach for the eternal urged my brain
         Beauty’s a battle; kisses, marathons
       
      Butterflies flee their cocoons, wings wet in June
         A love song’s a tease, waning w...
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Categories: marathons, beauty, butterfly, destiny, kiss,
Form: Couplet



Asmodeus Smile

...You were
twice my age
and told me

you had no
friends,

but I might be
pretty enough to
go around
with you.

I ran
marathons,

and with
Mammon eyes

scanning,
you
measured
that I...
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Categories: marathons, anger,
Form: Free verse

In touch with silence of the Self

...In this noisy world of busy lifestyle
That seldom show silver lines on dark clouds,
When time speeds so fast one can’t hope to catch,
And goals flex such that one can’t hope to reach,
Where’s tha...
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Categories: marathons, silence, spiritual,
Form: Blank verse

Retarded soul

...Do you know how I feel right now?
My heart is finally free from all those ties that broke my soul apart.
As, my soul has finally learned not to yearn for love.
It has learnt to let ...
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Categories: marathons, absence, confusion, courage, friendship,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Person I want to be

...I dream of being bold, without a want or care,
To charm the crowd with wit, and much fanfare,
A fearless soul, who plays to the crowd every night.
Never doubting, never ever wrong, ever forever ri...
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Categories: marathons, education, self,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAllotted Time

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Allotted Time
Miracle Man
4/6/2024

Audible days have become as whispers,
and nights often resemble marathons.
Where once his days seemed to be etched in gold,
time’s ravenous appeti...
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Categories: marathons, god, life, time,
Form: Quatrain

How Does It End

...Wish there were pills to calm a racing heart
One that longs for another heart to feel at peace
Runs marathons just for a mere sight
For a little dialogue to reignite the old spark
An eye contact ...
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Categories: marathons, anxiety, deep, emotions, faith,
Form: Free verse

A Tag of Pain

...Pain squizzes life out of my paralyzed mind and it feels like a grain of sugar under attack from ants.
Induring comes with an ocean of tears
Never ending and excruciating 
Sending my body into man...
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Categories: marathons, mental health,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberBox

...that carves out a space of measured boundaries
that's given shape by force of will
that makes one smaller in walled existence

to think outside the box
to forge a different understanding
to upe...
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Categories: marathons, anxiety, confidence, growth, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAll Christmas Out

...It is December 26th just in time
another Christmas gone time to unwind
No more eggnog  or yule log
No more bright lights or caroling at night
No more fruit cake or candy canes
Just piles of colo...
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Categories: marathons, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

Memento Mori; Memento Humani

...END, Truth, Pain, Life
The beauty in the death of life lies in the life of death.
I sigh in my mortal flesh
Of my mortal thoughts and ask
Should I remind you of your true nature
and your pursuit...
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Categories: marathons, anniversary, death, father, religion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Bit of a Devil

...I'm quite a bit of a devil I am
Born with a big smirk on my kisser
But don't ever take me at face value
You can trust me like my sister

I'm honest as the day is long
You can trust me w...
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Categories: marathons, endurance,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBaby Steps

...As we age, we yearn to return to a time
when innocence was considered a virtue.
Time is a progression of experiences;
today guides us toward tomorrow's discoveries
while yesterday is wove...
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Categories: marathons, age, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Resistance and Its Minions

...If Aprils bumbling cheerfulness won't keep me going,
it must be the sun, 
or the bees or the trees 
and their sloping branches, willowy flowers.

No, it's a plaintive push,
from the bed to the ...
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Categories: marathons, anxiety, encouraging,
Form: Verse

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