Short Careening Poems

Short Careening Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Careening by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Careening by length and keyword.


American Idol

You had me briefly careening
towards that crooning
but your excessive preening
and secret self-loathing
won an abrupt ending


Dreams

Running, leaping high
I feel as if I'm flying
Rolling, soaring sly
Careening through the trees, free
Forest of dreams while I sleep
Form: Tanka

Disillusion

Disillusion: Uncaged, balding dogs :
staring, grinning, careening, 
through broken windows moment by moment.

     Copyright McCuen 2008
© Mc Mc  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Premium Member The Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Tower of Pisa started leaning Builders knew by floor three the meaning Soft earth they say Still stands to this day More than 16 feet off center careening
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Rear View Mirror

Careening down the freeway
   adjusting   watching
   my rear-view   mirror
Checking to see 
   if death
   be closing in
Lurking there
   in my blind spot
of a blinded   life.


Purpose and Meaning

Purose and Meaning

What was Trump's purpose and meaning
Information we should start screening
All of it start searching through
Just like FBI tries to do
My head off wall went careening.

Jim
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The Rules of the Road

The highway of life is full of speed bumps and unseen peril
Heed the rules of the road; ease off the gas pedal when traveling
On a serpentine route, or risk careening off a high cliff



Date written and posted: 11/25/2018
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Peacefully Like Gramps

When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep like gramps Not screaming like his passengers while careening off the on-ramp Want to wake up in our garage Enjoying a soothing massage Administered by the neighbor's sexy teenage tramp
fun
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Peaceful Like Gramps

When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep like gramps Not screaming like his passengers while careening off the on-ramp Want to wake up in our garage Enjoying a soothing massage Administered by the neighbor's sexy teenage tramp
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Racist Checkers

Racist checkers- ego-fueled. 
Back and forth they go. 
Jump me once, I'll jump you twice. 
Careening toward the darkest back row.

Nothing left but two lonely pieces. 
Forever frozen in opposite corners.
Staring over a checkered past.
Over a field of a burned-out dream.

Premium Member Jeers and Cheers

    The crush of reporters with mikes
       the security entourage 
    Autograph-seekers, well-wishers
       hand-shakers, selfie-fishers
  
    On stage 24/7... with luck, for years
       Careening 'career' ... jeers and cheers 
         ~ ‘midst the booze veneer
Form: Rhyme

Safety Town

L – Little Larry Leadfoot
I –  insisted on
C – careening around
K – key intersections
E – endangering himself, 
T – terrifying other
Y – youngsters. 

S – Sergeant Smart
P – persisted in
L – law enforcement,
I –  impounding Larry’s
T – tricycle.

written April 6, 2018
Form: Acrostic

The Saltiness of Sorrow

careening through outer space
on this giant blue marble
sailing upon the waters
called the sea of discontent
when came the time of evil
the saltiness of sorrow
yet a revival of hope
and with a return to love
bring about the paradise
we have long been waiting for

date:3/17/22
© Meru Groen  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member One Letter Of The Alphabet

My coveted letter is C It creates a chant, so carefree coasting, careening caress, convening With charm, words flow contentedly C-words, as cordial, candlelight caretaking, and calm, can delight charming, curative are comparative to the C-words, I care to write
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Naked Greed Meets Raw Power

    Electricity crackles in the air
    roller-coaster careening 
       off its track as silver trumpets blare

    Gangs teem and thrive in jungles 
    from Africa to American streets
        shells of bodies without heartbeats

    Naked greed meets raw power
    each devours the other
         ~ carcasses to recover
Form: Rhyme

Chaos's Serene Center

A light stroke of the sun caresses the soft features of your face just right
As dust particles dance in the morning light 

Surrounded by a thousand molecules careening about suspended in a sunbeam
You lay motionless deep in a daydream 

The seemingly choreographed specs maneuver in perpetual bliss
As serenity sneaks chaos a kiss
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Quest

Quiet like the sea that winks at you with caution
Until waves wash your balance in a soaking totter
Exertion in a rooted footing to snatch breaths of salty air
Steadiness holding/healing a body from the drop off of loss
To watch the setting sun, its lilt and tow of memory
                                              careening beneath waves
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member The Painful Truth

Seeping into my reality
I feel the effects
Of excruciating pain
Destroying my soul.
It obliterates my senses
Keeping me numb inside
Everything but the pain
Is careening out of me.
My heartbeat is incredible
Beating like an idiot
It jumps off a cliff
Unknowing where it lands
It hits the bottom hard
Bleeding to the truth.

Russell Sivey

Alas a Pasta

Salubrious antipasto
Trimmed to be vociferous
Left without the tympani
Holding up a symphony
Greased well guaranteed articulate
Inundated synchrony
Molded into ebony
Gone on before the starting gate
Innate
Careening toward a screening
Where is all this the leading?
A gracious over-seeding
All sliding towards a feeding
In generosity I ate

Winter Wind

Churlish wind hovers overhead
Ready to chart its path of dread
By wistful, listless conductor led
Twirling baton with rotors fed
A swirling blender over land spread
Careening, eerie echo left in its stead
Fluffing the threads of barren bed
Wispy fibers in ginning whirlpool sped
Silty granules from denuded top shred
Strafing the strands of every bare head
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member On Tilt

I find it sadistic to gaze upon a star
but without the ability to touch it.
On this precious earth, free will is beyond anybody's reach.
Free will is the greatest tease.
I feel wholly blessed that I'm not totally blind.

We're all trapped in a skin cage of ego.
Careening off one another.
Pinballs in a secondhand arcade
Flawed and chipped and forever on tilt.

Charlie's Cartoon Characters Curiously Careen and Crusade

We work on the Funny Farm
Charlie And I
Different Cartoon Characters everyday
Heckle and Jeckle, Droopy, Captain Caveman
Careening through the day like Homer Simpson
Curiously, where is he?
Oh, he’s around somewhere
Crusading for a better day
Because when all is said and done
We all deserve a Duff Beer at the end of the day
© Byron Kaya  Create an image from this poem.

Thunderstorm

Azure panels fade; shed golden mane
Black, celestial portents mail links chain
Windows of heaven shaded darker strain
Foggy panes availing beams do disdain
Billowing, gray folds gilded tapestry doth stain
Burgeoning spouts brackish bile to drain
Reverberating drums strike dolesome refrain
Streaking bolts o'er tumult wax then wane
An eerie whistle howls announcing the careening train
Form: Rhyme

Blue Blessings

Ahhh- blue
the color rose I give to you.
Harken and listen to the meaning,
before you begin 
joyously careening.

It is a cool color,
universally meant to calm.
Helps with blessings, grace,
charm and intuition-
With a sublime embrace
and exalted fruition-
This blue rose I give to you
with love as my mission.

Won 8th place in the "The Blue Rose" contest by Mac McGovern

A. Green
© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Party Frenzy.

Another bash 

   Careening dancers emerge

Frenzied

           Gyrating haplessly into jigs

                                                  kilts lifting

                     Maurice nods

                               Ormond poised  queerly 

Rocking
                   stretching 

                  Tim under vintage wiles 

                                                 Xavier  yawning  zzs.
Form: ABC

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