Short Speed Poems

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


Premium Member Full Speed

Full speed ahead 
in and
for the spot light
resting between the breaths
waiting for the next 
until 
the final rest.


Highway Star

A zooming car, a Speed King.
All day, all night.
All down the highway,
Racing with faces unknown
To prove what he’s got.
© A. P.  Create an image from this poem.

What the Sky Told Me

Slow down, even with prayer, look at SKY
So easy to forget, as with God, and why?
We THINK we must hurry. Don't. Attend fully.
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Epigram

Dinner At the Lizards

Lizard mesmerizes prey
Insect wings are quite fast
Eyes swirling about bulge out
Dinner is but a tongue strike away
Let us pray

Comparing Actions and Reactions

Legs are faster
         than feet...
         Feet fastest
        than shoes...
        We are that react
        slowly in life.... !


Premium Member Gumball Rally

We entered the Gumball Rally
My driver was “Backstreets” Tally
With his crazy fast car
We still couldn’t get far
Bad math, no gas, in Death Valley
© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Sink or Swim

time is a river flowing
it lets nothing stand in its way
~ obstinately speeds in one direction



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

God Speed

You  know when God cried an ocean
It sunk the whole land of Goshen
But those kids on the Ark 
Skinny-dipped in the dark
Noah, of course, had no notion!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Light Speed

Time's tempo like torture is slow 
Just part of a youth's ebb and flow
But later the pace 
Of each year starts to race   
As the old among us must know
Form: Limerick

Eight Minutes and Nineteen Seconds At Light Speed

Sun; 
sizzling sentinel of the skies, 
scorcher of worlds, 
sits in splendour; 
shooting sublime shadows across the 
speckled sheet of time.

08/03/15
sun

Premium Member While time waits for no one

Weighed the risks of indecision
Not choosing one way or the another
~ yet somehow getting nowhere fast


Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Speed You Bleed

They make them fast, so why not speed
there not coming last, it’s what they need

Nurses fix a cast, to stop them bleed
let’s have a blast, at what they greed
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Wish we could slow things down

September just around the corner
summer indulgences so quickly come and gone
~ time slips through our fingers



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 3rd place 2025
Form: Other

Speed

The rush
The speed
The adrenaline of love
     Touch
      Feel
     Taste
Experience the warmth of what you dream... 
 of what you watch...
 of what you can.
© Liza Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Form: ABC

Free-wheeling Through Africa

Just climb onto the back of my Harley
And we shall ride to the songs of Bob Marley,
   In no time at all
   We'll be in Senegal,
Though I might stop for lunch in Kigali.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member That Thing Went By at Warp Speed



Was it a car or a cat I saw?
It zoomed by! I saw wheels~~not one paw!
Weird times, I’ve had ‘em.
Mad am I, madam?
My neighbor thought it was a macaw!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Flying Speed

Stripping the fingertips off your hand
Snaps quickly, just like a rubber band
You type so fast
Words that will last
Flying speed, it’s nothing like quicksand

Russell Sivey
Form: Limerick

The Speed of Mind

Actually,
Mind-thoughts 
Race faster less the pen.

If only,
The pen could write
alongside the speed of the mind

Perhaps,
All words could be expressed
without mincing and missing.

Premium Member Fast Convertible

fast convertible
hair to the wind
fleeting summer rays



AP: 2nd place 2026
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Submitted on June 2, 2020 for contest FRESH HAIKU sponsored by JCB BURL  -  HONORABLE MENTION
Form: Senryu

Premium Member ten speed grannies

they fly through the streets
on ten speed bikes
wearing tight speedos
delighting their men
showing off tattoos and *****
three well-known grannies
who have taught the town to play
age

Speed and Accuracy

My anniversary gift went off the rails.
She sought it shiny with correct details.
Goes from nought to two hundred
in three seconds, so wondered -
But it wasn’t a set of bathroom scales,
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Records will be crushed

Cyclists outrunning the approaching cyclone
Tour de France quickly captures everyone’s attention
Extra incentive to pedal faster



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Shutter Speed

As I travel at warp speed
Through time, it seemed
Motionless and surreal
As my molecules
Tries to catch-up
With my body
Giving away my
Sense of smell
Touch and sight
Until I explode
© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.

Speed

Somewhere on the North York Moor
Pedal almost through the floor
Engine soon began to roar
Eighty miles per hour for sure
Death comes quick on the A64...
Form: Acrostic

Warp Speed

some say
the dinosaurs
all died out
at the same
time

some say
some day
the same
will

happen
to man
kind as we
collide or at

least it
does
with
us

you bet
your as
ter
oid
Form:

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