Short Neck And Neck Poems

two horses sprinting 
  neck and neck along the straight 
        yea i’m winning ~ neigh


By
David Kavanagh...

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Neck and neck in the night sky,
Dancing lights face each other;
But, what are they; UFO’s
Or Willow-the-wisp?
...

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Wyandotte woods has a secret place for many to go
The fox, the squirrel, rabbits and deer, for they know….
They are hidden away from those who would do harm.
They get along well here, playing neck to neck, arm to arm....

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three trotting turtles
slowly raise a cloud of dust
neck and neck finish

six hissing serpents
surreptitiously slither
escaping their pasts

three city ground hogs
shaking their "jay-lo" booties
cross against the light

John G. Lawless
©6/13/2023...

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We were neck to neck with ideas, Stanley and I.
Incentives! We yelled, practically in unison.
It was an all-day workshop, and I was completely enamored with him.
He looks eighteen, but he might be twenty-three.
At the end we had a shout out.
I ran over to shout “I love your energy!”
As I reached him, he shouted, “I love your energy!”
Damn!...

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Fear
Deep, endless, consuming
Fills her beautiful brown eyes
Shh...
She struggles little
Not much longer I promise
Small wheezing sounds escape her lips
Those lips...
I hate doing this.
Her neck, ivory neck, elegant neck
I'm sorry
So sorry
I whisper a kiss on her forehead
Linger over her lips
Those lips
Those soft, silent lips
I remove my hand....

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Dear mama you didn’t know
I was so embarrassed and feeling low
I hope you find me
I don’t know where I could be
Its cold and damp
A vacant camp
He hit me mama
He finally lost control
My body couldn’t take the toll
But mama God took me home
To such a beautiful place
And someday again
Ill see your beautiful face
Heart to heart hand in hand
Neck to neck we will embrace...

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Republicans Are Really a Rip (Rest In Peace)

Took a jab at Jeb
Who might be a Johnny Reb
Should he ebb and ebb?

Full of ridicule
Candidates can be a fool
Mind has a loose tool.

Leaving things a wreck
Not playing with a full deck
Running neck and neck.

Down path we were led
Vote for Hilary instead
Hear what she has said.

James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet...

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Neck and neck,
Could taste something new,
And was rejected.
Because I was good,
Too good at something else.
She was a nobody,
Reaching for something she never had,
Respect.
I got nothing,
Even though I gave everything I had.
My body,
My heart,
My being entirely.
I thought I deserved it,
Everyone thought I did,
But I guess not.
I deserve to be nothing more
than a pawn,
Commanded by the major....

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Race Is Neck and Neck

Race is neck and neck;
Write most poems we do suspect;
Hope all are correct.

What I mean is there is a hot race between Position 4 and 5 
in Poetry Soup regarding most poems written.

President Who Is An Albatross.

When in White House we
Came across a President,
Who was an albatross.

When we will see him,
Ourselves cross and say God save us
From the albatross.

Jim Horn...

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Thunder never felt louder
The wind at their backs, 
Their tails streaming 
They run in full out glory
Penny Hardy’s horses
Bringing appreciative glances
A feeling of reverence following their tracks
As they dash neck to neck
The horses of the plains 
Sharing their love and light
Bringing a feeling of love to the ones
Who have discovered them for the first time
Maybe not knowing the artist, but
Appreciating her works, marveling at her creativity...

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my hair runs wild,
my thoughts went a little more,
with dreams in my eyes
the world a little below
 my insanity runs amok 
while the cold wind blows 

towards wilderness I am swept 
maybe, beneath  there is snow
not scared to stumble
for I have wings to show
wider and wider they are spread
higher and  higher I go
 
Above  the moors,
Neck to neck with mountains
Above is just a moon
No fumble no falter
No full stops ahead,
Left right center
Incessant infinity…...

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Censorship’s alive and well
In Dickson, Tennessee,
Whose Roxy Theater advertised
Upon its proud marquee:

“Heckboy,” playing there beside
Both “Dumbo” and “Shazam.”
Of course, there’s no such movie
And that title is a sham.

The owner thinks profanity
Should not be on the sign,
So “Hellboy” was a name that she
Decided to refine.

To me, there’s not much difference
In those words; they’re neck and neck,
But such censorship implies this country’s
On its way to Heck....

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In competition, neck and neck
They held each other's pace.
The crowd was rooting silently
The whole entire race.

The both of them so well-prepared,
They'd practiced and they'd trained,
So every possibility
Their brains had entertained.

The final minutes soon approached
And I was thrilled to see
Both Vanya* and Gokul* were winners
Of the Spelling Bee!


*Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam
were declared co-winners of the 2015
Scripps National Spelling Bee last night....

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