Short Hurdle Poems

Life's sorrows latch on
I've overcome each hurdle
waiting for the next...

Read More

facing a tsunami
of a hurdle
summoning the strength



posted on September 30, 2018...

Read More

No hurdle in life is insurmountable if we entrust the powers God has endowed us with!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
     09 February 2017...

Read More

Moving at the pace  of a turtle
pick up the pace there is no hurdle!
Kindly move over
can't go any slower;
If I hop past you don't startle....

Read More

Across a roadside that's fertile
Came this reptile and a hurdle
As he hid in his shell
A nice driver did yell
Just cross the road little turtle...

Read More

every obstacle
creates 
a barrier
every barrier 
a fence,
every fence 
a hurdle
this in turn 
begins building 
a wall
ran out 
of obstacles
the end

~ ~ ~ ~...

Read More

Fast, daring Champion,
Dashed over the highest hurdle
With lightening speed!







Submitted for haiku - with hooves contest 

Sponsored by john lawless....

Read More

When athletics have no consequence,
The long jump and high jump make no sense,
You can still leap ten feet,
Even hurdle a street,
If you lean on an electric fence....

Read More

There once was a proud lady named Myrtle
To overcome a very big hurdle --
   She inhaled very hard
   Sucked up all her lard --
Then squeezed into her wedding-day's girdle...

Read More

I would not want to be a turtle.
Eating bugs every  day,
crossing the road is a hurdle.
that I face in May.




Brian strand's 4 line rhyme contest
cory long...

Read More

First female Pres faced one awful hurdle
Intimidated, her brave lips curdled
   She twisted and she squirmed
   Met resistance too firm
No way she could slip into that girdle...

Read More

Hopeful Hope hoped to hop an icy slope,
The hapless slope hampered hopeless Hope’s Hope.
But hope dies last,
And Hope at last 
Happily happed to hop an icy slope!

February 3, 2022...

Read More

oh Lord 
let
peace
be a
baton
that
mankind receives
while
completing
every
hurdle and
every 
twist and turn
and
letting peace
pass her baton
bringing sweet victory
around the world...

Read More

I ran the distance
hurdled the thoughts
the track not clear
in this dismal fog
breathless, fatigued
I jump over them all
the end in sight
one hurdle calls
and as I leap over
I smash into the wall...

Read More

A fire in one's eyes,
who sees the target ahead.
A leap in one's legs,
who will jump over any hurdle.
A barrier in one's mind, 
to block the forces that be.
A treasure in one's heart,
of the gathered love of one's self....

Read More

Cottontail
small, fragile, frail
hind quarters strong and jumping
little rabbit foot thumping
run quick, run fast
while showers and skies are overcast
along the green, shamrocks and clover
just another hurdle to jump over....

Read More

A hurdle i can take,
or even an elephant too.
but this time its too much,
obstacles too big,
more like an avalance has fallen right at my feet.
i try to jump in and make my way across,
but frozen stuck in this tundra,
no way out and cant turn back....

Read More

Extant exertion will loom you to the upcoming hurdle.

Favoring the ideal stance might empower you to hurtle.



Written: October 17, 2021

Your Best Rhyming Couplet #3 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: L MILTON HANKINS...

Read More

in love
with the idea
of being
in love

youthful naiveté
eager and out 
to conquer the world
without a game plan

learning the game
the hard way
one hurdle at a time
one heartbreak to the next



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on November 7, 2018...

Read More

One hurdle
Then another
But we have each other
so we remain together
our bond grows
Stronger
With every hurdle
Place upon us
They come and go
Some are hard
Some are not
But either way
We pass them by
Wondering
What would have happened
If we let our love die...

Read More

Prunella loved the color purple,
planting some lovely Crepe Myrtle’s;
they had a humongous growth spurt,
all due to her nitro-rich dirt,
now her yard’s a Myrtle hurdle.


6-11-2022
Contest / A Funny Limerick - Any Theme Contest
Tania kitchen...

Read More

Groping in the cavern,
I was badly in need of a lantern,
Bereft of vision,
I was without a mission,
A bat had battered on my hat,
And on my face had swat,
On many a hurdle did I stumble,
But what kept me going,
Were the fireflies of love
Which your heart had been ceaselessly spouting....

Read More

Like a newborn babe
Girdled by
A colony of ants,
Like a bird in
A wooden cage,
Like a prisoner
In the Bastille,
Each human life
Is ensnared with
A great number
Of hurdles:
The path of life
Is never laden with
Silk and blossoms.
If we endeavour indeed,
We’ll attain life’s ambrosia....

Read More

Twenty ways to phrase a sentence 
Five different adjectives to describe your beauty
Within twenty minutes, five different facial expressions
Five emotions to convey my love for you
Twenty obstacles to hurdle for five seconds of your time
Twenty five reasons for loving your intellectual being...

Read More

That connection
With Divine
which gives me that
Superpower to defeat
every single hurdle of my life

That connection
With Divine
which makes me feel
the existence of Someone
up in the skies
Who is all there to
guide me
help me
support me for
every single situation of my life

-Saeeda©...

Read More