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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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