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Best Skate Poems

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


Skate
Wheels spin, board flies. Through the air, streets, the city.
Making my own path, benches, rails, free to ride, glide.

Suddenly stops. 
Can’t go here, there, anywhere....

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Categories: skate, body, city, culture, environment,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Gothic Girls Don'T Roller Skate
 
When I was a kid
I liked to skate fast
Not on frozen ice
But on roller skates
Down a great big hill

We were a group
Of skating kids
I...

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Categories: skate, age, childhood, funny,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Premium Member My Dad Did Not Want To Roller Skate
My dad’s car was on the fritz
He got talked into roller skating.
I am twenty-two he argued.
Too old for it.
But they could walk there.

He noticed a...

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Categories: skate, dad, mom,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



I Wish I Were a Skate
I wish I were a swimming skate
I’d swim in schools; that would be great!
I would sit in class
Between shark and bass
Then play hooky and take...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skate, fish, sea,
Form: Limerick
Cheap Skate
POCKETS TURN INSIDE OUT.LINT BALLS
FALL RIGHT OUT...A NIGHT OUT WITH
YOU IS WITH COUPONS AT MICKEY D'S.
ASKING THE CLERK TO SUPER SIZE A
TAKEOUT MEAL.

CHEAP SKATE:THE FLOWERS...

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Categories: skate, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, people, satire
Form: Free verse
Couples' Skate
Bright lights grow dim throughout the rink,
An amplified voice then resounds:
“Now boys and girls, let’s couples’ skate,”
So, girls drop speed, coast off and stop
While on,...

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© David Bose  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skate, growing up, jealousy, youth,
Form: Blank verse



Learning How To Skate Again
It all started yesterday
went to the skating rink,
I haven't skated for years
back then, I didn't stink.

I used to be a good skater
then, there it was...

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Categories: skate, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
On a Skate
Opportunities come and leave on a skate
Falling down doesn't mean it's all because of fate
Failure are supposed to teach you about errors not hate
Getting up...

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Categories: skate, age, appreciation, blessing, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Skate Board Bogie
skateboard
cement wonder
dragon and thunderbolts
nancy’s big brother’s old helmet
a thrill...

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Categories: skate, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Fallen 7 Year-Old Skate Boarder
7 year old skateboarder young boy with long braided Locs;
Overpowered by powerful frocks;
Skateboarding over wooden boxes;
fell hard,  knees scarred;
Was impaled by a rusty nail;
...

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Categories: skate, boy, engagement, parody,
Form: Free verse
Roller Skate
its a smooth ride
need no map to guild
 love it 
i do this at  a rate
that don't complate
ROLLER SKATE...

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Categories: skate, addiction, adventure,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Coral Skate Huitain
Flushed cheeks and filled with serene truth,  
on a lake of rose quartz I skate; 
Coral ice surrounds and starts to soothe
a warm smile...

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Categories: skate, confidence, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Me, Myself and Ice
Only the cold crunching
of the fresh snow bunching,
and the tired leather boots
as I take that first step

Can be heard right here
by no other frozen ear,
for...

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Categories: skate, nature, silence, snow, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Good Old Days

Twirling around the glossy smooth floor
Racing with friends on roller-skates
Tossing my hair as I glide across the room
Feeling so certain that this is my destiny

Weaving...

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Categories: skate, fun, high school, teen
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Foolish Skater
There once was a large ice patch on Main
Avoided by everyone sane
	A foolish skater
	Thought himself greater
His skating now induces horrid pain...

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Categories: skate, environment, funny, humorous, hurt,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things