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Best Race Poems

Below are the all-time best Race poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of race poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Race of a Lifetime
He skis down the slopes
of a snow covered mountain
racing against time
and his main adversary...
avalanche in hot pursuit. 

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Written 28th May 2016
Contest: Traditional Tanka
Sponsor: Charlotte J....

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Categories: mountains, race, snow,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Thoughts Race
The heavy fog slowly lifts in places
Open patches of spring delight and resounds
The look-out crow caws, joyous news abounds
As rooster's crows lands in hollow spaces
The...

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Categories: race, anxiety,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Race the Finals Spoken Word
I wish to
Relay
To all of my people the importance of sticking together as a 
team

And that
Because we have run 
through the preliminary trials as selfish...

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Categories: race, africa, black african american,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Across the Border
"La Voz"

La Noche sin agua --- I spill my loving lips
Dancing, laughing, and celebrating life 
I am his queen, aka' dulce Nina
A night he must...

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Categories: race, anger, corruption, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of---- all lives taken by unfair justice.

 Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
 I sit here alone...

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Categories: race, abuse, community, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Little
Little


is left
little breath
sagging stem
begging eyes
trains come, then depart
rancid smoke over grey fields
I am little
I saw it all...

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Categories: race, angst, child, courage, gothic,
Form: Free verse



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
...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: race, adventure, car, crazy, fun,
Form: Limerick
Equality At the Hands of Men
Man so mighty and wise
still has to define this
that another living being's life
has the same value as his 

Boasted, brazened
written in stone
raised above 
these highest...

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Categories: race, history, humanity, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gabriela Andersen- Schiess
Gabriela Andersen-Schiess was a long-distance runner
Who ran a marathon in the heat of a Californian Summer
It was the Los Angeles Olympics in nineteen eighty-four
You might...

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Categories: dedication, inspirational, race, sports,
Form: Narrative
Dark Skinned Vs Light Skinned
In our Asian-cum-Eastern land
No one prefers or admires
the dark-skinned or tanned

Gosh, as if the fair-skinned alone
belonged to the so-called fairer sex
And here, 'black is beauty'...

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Categories: color, prejudice, race, ,
Form: Rhyme
Love Me In Black and White
Love me in Black and White

musical intro

From the keys of your heart a melody rolled back the night
illuminated the sky with its symphony of lights
and...

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Categories: love, music, race, romantic,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Ko Olina Place of Joy
Picture a tropical paradise - faraway
Colorful leis of fresh fragrant flowers
Worn by  hula dancers that sway
Sandy beaches and leisure filled hours
Soft waving palms on...

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Categories: happiness, inspiration, race,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Premium Member Been Thinking
Ink of my skin doesn't define me, 
                 ...

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Categories: anti bullying, race, racism,
Form: Monoku
To Those That Say All Lives Matter When We Say Black Lives Matter
You say all lives matter
Bringing up all these colors 
Like red, white, orange, and blue
But when a black life is taken, where on Earth are...

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Categories: race, black african american, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member This Is Not a Poem--- a Singled Out Page
-THIS IS NOT A POEM-

Hey, Poets stop by, give me a shout out.
Tell Me Where You Are From;)
I promise I won't show up on your...

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Categories: race, africa, america, community, culture,
Form: Blitz

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry