Short Hurtle Poems

shadowless meadows
ears of corn sway with the breeze
dragonflies hurtle

 © Harry J Horsman 2022...

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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...

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Suddenly she is all grown up
Time to declare I am over the hill
as I hurtle down, filled with
gratitude; a spring in my step

I am a suitor again;a paternity suitor
filled with thanksgiving and joy
The providence of God delights me
on the birthday of my daughter,Tanya...

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They all said it was absurd
To go and invent a word 
I do it all the time
In cause of a rhyme
And now my secret is shared.

There was a Mock Turtle called Myrtle
Who once fell off a cliff and got hurtle
She said it was hell
With a cracked shell
‘Cos the water leaked in with a spurtle....

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Turtle Hurtle sat on a myrtle
                                       And Waving kisses to Mrs. Startle
                                                   Startle fell apart
                                                  Lost her a la carte
                                       Old Startle had nothing to smartle...

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My friend Steve is a purple turtle,
He is my oldest friend.
His large house makes him hurkle,
no, Steve will never hurtle. 

He has a family, they too are purple,
I am an elephant, but they let me into their circle. 
We walk a lot, I stomp and he hirples,
We are friends forever, me and my purple turtle. 

Dated - 17.01.2019...

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Eyeing its prey from its perch above
  it swoops in on its target
inserting its poison and darting away
  its imperiled victim blissfully unaware

Innocent, unsuspecting, incredulous
  that one creature would attack another
on this lovely exoplanet, AS796324xe
  as it/we hurtle irrevocably 
         ~ into the nether regions of nothingness...

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Nothing to say
do beyond robotic routines
…beyond eluding erosion

Something to say
do beyond repetitive rituals
…beyond evading entropy

Nowhere to go
hide behind cacophonous clowns
…behind vehement vaudevillians

Somewhere to go
hurtle beyond comedic ciphers
…beyond vindictive vipers

Nothing
Something
Nowhere 
Somewhere…
is
Everywhere...

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The playful nature of love
need not be always a scheduled 
match, something to be said for the
spontaneity of butterfly kisses, 
fluttering lips and tip-toeing
fingertips, as a child approaches
a cookie-jar at midnight, the
cat-like hurtle of stool and
counter, a cupboard with bells
and whistles, the Cookie Master
having had fond insight, a shared
sweet-tooth of a game…....

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I pondered on the firmament

Wondering where comets went

They seem to be in some cosmic race,

As they hurtle around in outer space.

A beautiful sight upon the eye

When they grace a starlit sky,

But it must be strange indeed

Eternally going at full speed,

In endless orbit, on and on

Off into the far beyond,

To places we will never see

Touring, for eternity....

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Unburdened by mass,
star born 
photons
hurtle
through vacuum voids.

They reach a planet
where green continents swim 
in blue oceans.
It is night. A woman
looks up at the sky.

The photons travel
through the gelatinous matter
of her eye and die
on her retina,
sparking electric pulses 
that race 
along the optic nerve,
and her miraculous brain
translates:
I see a star....

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Forsooth and forlorn ferocious I fried,

Before Bibawhack, my baboon bastard's bride. 

To teachy thee a truth,  Ye took And Ye tried…

On yon odorous oxters [as the ocean tide.] 

Guarengriddle Green, elope, elope.  Makes watery- eyed.

So send it soft, send it soon, spittle spot, easily spied.

Him and she, Her and He hurtle and hide…

Disenchanted, disabused, deceased I died. 
...

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As white flakes 
  hurtle down 
from the sky 
  A warrior rises 
from the ground 
  Made of snow 
he walks gingerly 
  down the road 
We see him with 
   mixed emotions 
Since fear mixed with 
   amazement and joy 
The Snow Warrior 
  visits our time
and "belongs to eternity"
His joy is our joy 
His fear is our fear 
Winter brings out the best in may 
And brings the Snow Warrior 
a being we cannot 
   do without...

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Purple shadows drift beneath the gray sky forge
Mists dipping into verdant valleys like quicksilver
Skimming the rapids where we hurtle downriver
Through seething whitewater of New River gorge
     Hurtling toward narrow waters of the Gauley
     'Neath the bridge to form the Kanawha mighty.

THIRD PLACE WINNER
written May 22, 2021; reworked May 23, 2021
entered "Bite Size 2" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Line Gautier...

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I was looking at the starry sky
When past a comet sped.
Oh, how I wished I could
Attach to it a sled.

I'd hurtle through the universe
Such things would I see,
Planets never seen before
And distant galaxies.

I could watch a super nova
Dodge pulsars cosmic rays,
And marvel at planetary rings
As I toured the milky way.

I could fly through a nebula
As on and on I sped,
Then shoot off to infinity,
Aboard my celestial sled....

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I was looking at the starry night
When past a comet sped.
Oh, how I wished I could
Attach to it a sled.

I'd hurtle through the universe
Such things would I see,
Planets never seen before
And distant galaxies.

I could watch a super nova,
Dodge pulsars cosmic rays
And marvel at planetary rings,
As I toured the milky way.

I could fly through a nebula
As on and on I sped,
Then shoot off to infinity,
Aboard my celestial sled....

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I find myself humming Broadway melodies,
suddenly bursting into "I'm as Corny as Kansas in August,"
and "Wind Sweeping Across the Plains,"
while the miles disappear behind me,
and slight hints of dusk appear on the distant horizon
as I hurtle toward "Some Enchanted Evening,"
beneath the clean white sheets of a sterile
room in an expensive Holiday Inn Suite
a long, long way from South Pacific
and Oklahoma!

written August 18, 2021...

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