Best Speed Poems

Must you mileage chalk up in free verse speed way

   For Kim Patrice Nunez*, with hope

Must you mileage chalk up in free verse speed way
Let your wheels skid by letting loose grip on wheel
Free verse range’s for marksmen trained on rondolet*
Dipodic foot pantun...

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I sat down and watched
mans great consuming need
He moved quickly towards the nothing
For nothing could satisfy him
those things he had grasped for 
became dust within his hands

I wondered within my silence
Who he had been
before he too turned to dust
My choice was not to forget him
for...

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She was on the rebound
high on freedom's speed
our coordinates collided
in a silver speck of time 
we dumped our seeds
upon a neon galaxie
but nothing ever blooms 
on that starry autobahn
I was just a speed bump,
to her leather studded charm....

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Maybe I want to cry and maybe I want to sigh, and maybe I'm looking for a fight
Feeling I'm invincible, often non-sensible, living at the speed of light
Too much time is wasted brooding over what might have been
Too many days are spent looking at yesterday's...

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Next Stop F-stop 2.8

Got to get out of the city,
if you want to see the galaxy.
(Be sure to grab your camera on your way out the door,
cause there’s no turning back).

Must escape man’s brilliance,
man’s electric-mind;
street lamps with flesh-light, blue-light, and corpse-light, 
lights that hum, 
lights...

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In the childhood home her mother spins her child
Round and round we go happiness seems to overflow
And the childhood  goes by; faster, faster

A growing child with so much energy running and having fun
Careless and free he runs across the yard
He is growing up; faster,...

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As I put the key in the ignition 
To win this race is my only ambition  
I love to hear the roar and smell the fuel; 
All the cars are revving up to join the duel
I’m ready to make the black sport clutch drop
The...

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I got a Need For Speed
I get behind the wheel and take the lead
When you see me in your rear view mirror you better make room for me
I always come in first never in last cause my car to fast
I never run out of gas
My...

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I never took the time to speak my love
I never told him what I was thinking of
I never thanked him for all he had done
I never said I was proud to be his son

I was blinded by the speed of life
Now, on angel’s wings he’s...

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Ride Ride the motorcycle
Speedily down the street
Rrum rrum rrum rrum
Listen to the beat....

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Time outruns those who don't sprint 
To keep up. It never turns back
Or bothers to wait for idle souls

Why carry coals to Newcastle?
Time misspent is time gone forever
Easy come and easy go

Time is too busy to wallow in
The stillness of now. Indeed, it does 
Flee...

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I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING  
BUT YOU BETTER SLOW DOWN  
WE DON'T LIKE SPEEDERS 
FLYING THROUGH TOWN  

SPEED LIMIT HERE 
IS THIRTY-FIVE 
OFFICER PETE 
HAS AN EAGLE EYE  

YA  AUGHT TO SLOW DOWN 
TAKE IN THE VIEW  
SEE...

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I miss the peace of silent thought--
This worldly pace has grown so fast—
And in its wake that speed has brought

Us woes unknown throughout the past,
And now we find we have to face
A sea of troubles, deep and vast.

If we could only slow that pace
And find...

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Foot on the gas
No time to slow down

Paddling harder
Not wanting to drown

Reaching for oxygen 
Atmosphere's thinner

Still in the race
Eat the dust of the winner 

Adventure not waining
For some skiing off piste

Soulful confessions?
Time to contact a priest

There's life in the old dog
Though the snow on the...

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At a spot of roadside, shaded
A predator on the prowl
Concealed itself and waited
for prey to run afoul…

Then, madly, with a dash,
It shot out from the thicket;
Nabbed one prey, in a *flash*
And slapped it with a ticket....

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