Short Poem about runner's high
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1st Rush
and I couldn't stop,
but flew
Limelight
and you?
Do you have a poem about a runner's high?
and I couldn't stop,
but flew
Limelight
and you?
Do you have a poem about a runner's high?
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
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Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
runner's delight,
euphoric,
breaks the tape
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green
you been smokin' doobies:
you said the cabbage called you mean
and poked fun at your boobies.
Runner bean, runner bean
How you make me sigh:
You should be pink! You're not! You're green
'cos you're always high.
You're taking the limelight away from RUSH! How could you, Fins?!
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
I do not run for fun.
I run because man was not born to fly,
I do not run until I get tired,
I do not run until I cramp,
I run to know I love the world,
when the stars bleed blue,
and stare down at those lakes
with their blank eyes,
I run.
I run through sweat
until it dries and cakes
and my skin becomes salt
I trace the next fifty footfalls through my mind
as I weave across the fractured sidewalk
the pavement tells me stories
T.J. was here, screams one square,
the day before I dried in 1997, the geese had already
migrated south that year
Rose forgot some of the blood from her knee, when
she fell here five years ago, the mark withers
but the walkway remembers,
for the tired runners looking down,
these stories pass us,
fossilized flip books of suburban lives.
I read rosetta stones in the cracks,
and shed sweat from my forehead
like witch doctors casting raven’s bones
My feet overwrite the history of the pavement,
paint a canvas of concrete with sweat
my first kiss falls across a turn, my first homerun
bleeds itself into a crack
by the sixth mile, thousands of striding chapters
past my birth, my first fuck pours itself out of
the cotton sheets of memory
and flows in ribbons to the rhythm of my feet.
I run until I turn the world backwards, I can see
the town shrink around me,
foundations break and fill with dirt
pizza returns to the oven, cars return to the lot
grandparents are born, native Indians conquered,
roads become paths,
paths become trails plowed by curious steps
I see Hitler run past Napoleon,
his back to Russia,
where the Corsican bounds in a sprint.
The two nod and return their eyes to the ground,
the red grass and burnt trees, the battlefields
were places to linger, and they never risk being lapped.
Napoleon’s hands cover his ears,
as Charlemagne’s troops
canter past in formation,
a great steal sponge dead set on Jerusalem,
but they raise their visors to spy the giant human turtles,
trample past in sandals,
bearing the banner of Rome.
I circle Europe defying history’s greatest runners,
their feet are now my feet, their life’s work
bound in my miles.
I run enough to see the moon twice in one day.
My shadow pants from exhaustion
and sits down on a bench,
watches me run laps, as I run into my wife,
and through my children’s graduation,
it watches as my hairline shrinks
and my stride is stopped by a seizure.
Under the bright hospital lights
the doctor tells me,
I ran too much,
I pushed too hard,
I wrote too many memoirs along the town’s flagstones.
The doctor told me I had three weeks to live,
and I would likely live them in bed, on my back.
When he left the room,
I did the only thing a runner knows to do.
I laced up my sneakers, and wrote my obituary.
He has no heart to lie.
Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
Living on a lighted stage
Approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality
Beyond the gilded cage
Cast in this unlikely role,
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers
To keep oneself intact
Living in the limelight
The universal dream
For those who wish to seem
Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation
The underlying theme
Living in a fisheye lens
Caught in the camera eye
I have no heart to lie
I can’t pretend a stranger
Is a long-awaited friend
All the world’s indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another’s audience
Outside the gilded cage
I had a feeling you were doing something with the lyrics, so I did a little research, et voila!
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
just for fun
and the endolphins....
started again
run to win
had to give up for my shins......
ouch.
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