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Outpacing
Outpacing Poems - Poems about Outpacing
One Voice
...The playing field level your words versus mine A race to forever embedded in rhyme The score has been tied neither side giving ground Both phrases and couplets inscribed to astound It’s l......
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Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
outpacing,
writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Teen Suicide
... Teen Suicide Miracle Man 2/9/2022 A beautiful flower self plucked from time, too quickly outpacing a child’s playtime. Growing up too quickly for a girl her age, social media had ......
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Tom Wright
Categories:
outpacing,
anxiety, bereavement, bullying, death,
Form:
Couplet
The Last Word
...I think love requires little more than willing – if doors and windows are closed and shuttered, fresh air and sunlight cannot find a healing sliver – but slightly ajar, light and warmth ......
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Joe Dimino
Categories:
outpacing,
christian, humanity, inspirational, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Death and Taxes
...Death and Taxes Death enters our lives and fear draws its breath each day that we wake until it leaves us in death Outpacing mortality would surely set man free to leave our worries behind in......
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Mark Koplin
Categories:
outpacing,
fear,
Form:
Couplet
Recalling the Time
... Recalling the Time Written: by Tom Wright 3/10/2014 I can recall, in pictorial thought, the time, When reaching my point of desperation; Envisioning faintly, a death bell’s chime, F......
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Tom Wright
Categories:
outpacing,
christian, god, jesus,
Form:
Lyric
Blood Doves
...Another summer of black bullet and white heat rhetoric. The tally is in and once again, black tears outpacing death. Fiery marchers adding another link to Martin Luther's chain. Bull horns blowing......
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©
Anthony Biaanco
Categories:
outpacing,
chicago,
Form:
Rhyme
Absolution Within
...The intrinsic beauty of the present moment Exploding our consciousness rewriting the hymn Outracing the words to an epiphany of reflection Outpacing all time —absolution within ......
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Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
outpacing,
spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Night Traffic
...Night traffic is streaming white lights coming toward the car speeding away red honking and puffing outpacing the horse and not tiring the mad goose faster than the one behind never at ......
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Frances Schiavina
Categories:
outpacing,
travel,
Form:
Free verse
Busybee Me
...(enjoy the puns) I happen to be a busy bee always racing with time since time how it flies for busy bees Ah wish I could just lasso it like a cowboy does his horse and thereby bring it to a ......
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S.Zaynab Kamoonpuri
Categories:
outpacing,
time,
Form:
Blank verse
Jogging
...I jogged, one foot after the other, Lungs wide open to welcome, Breathings of the warm evening air, Eyes stung at the touch of Cruel sweat, saturated and salty. I jogged, a flat branch overhea......
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Julia Ho
Categories:
outpacing,
freedom, imagery, nature, tree,
Form:
Free verse