Best At The Last Minute Poems
Below are the all-time best At The Last Minute poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of at the last minute poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Witch and the TigerThe witch and the tiger sat on opposite sides of the moon,
Starring at each other, wondering who would eat whom
The witch was cagey, wily and...
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Categories:
at the last minute, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form:
Free verse
IN RESPONSE TO MY FIRST POEM FOR CONTESTOriginal Poem Just Desserts
I was at my favourite restaurant and had a lovely meal
If I finished all my food then a pudding was the deal
I’d...
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Categories:
at the last minute, food, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
My Persian QueenFrom the Gardens of Babylon,
to the walkways of Palestina,
to the grand temples of Jerusalism,
to the sandy beaches of Syria and Cyprus.
Went my Persian Queen riding,
upon...
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Categories:
at the last minute, beach, body, care, city, drink, earth,
Form:
Romanticism
THE IMPRESSION LEFT BY LOVEBy destiny, became friends
Not by real contact but e - contact
Great was the distance that separate, yet felt so close
Shared dreams, goals and ambitions
With optimum...
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Categories:
at the last minute, art, friendship, love, future,
Form:
Free verse
Good Ol'e Hard Garlic salimi and Dried prune Religion"Dearly beloved, "We are gathered here today to witness,
The wickedness of these times."
"Blessed", fortunately, its ending soon."
To radio stations phone-it.
"Wait!, No!, Next month.
"Taking the kiddies...
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Categories:
at the last minute, anxiety, forgiveness,
Form:
Ballad
SANTA IS COMING TO DINNERMy wife told me she invited Santa to dinner
But it is not Christmas and this is summer, but should I let him enter?
What shall we...
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Categories:
at the last minute, adventure, america, best friend, black african
Form:
Rhyme
My Real Name Is Charles
All you Souper know me as Jack
But in reality, my real name is Charles
I will try to explain this seemingly strangel turn of events
I was...
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Categories:
at the last minute, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
at the last minute, christmas, culture, children, holiday, imagery,
Form:
Haiku
Fly byGone with the wind
Gone are the days of indecision
Gone are the days of determination
Are you sure?
You will forever be indecisive
Because God decide
You will forever...
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Categories:
at the last minute, faith,
Form:
Free verse
Optimism in Cleveland
During last night’s draft coverage, ESPN would reveal
that the Cleveland Browns and Philadelphia Eagles made a deal.
At the last minute, Philadelphia sent their first-round pick
to...
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Categories:
at the last minute, football,
Form:
Rhyme
hope
hope the driving force of the world
a mouse dropped in a vat of water with no chance of escape
circling the bucket to no avail will...
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Categories:
at the last minute, education, faith, forgiveness, hope, planet, ,
Form:
Free verse
Warped RealityAll the time I was descending into that deep, dense cavern of a hole
Between my shoulders an uneasy crick appeared and seemed to slip into...
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Categories:
at the last minute, adventure, imagination, mystery,
Form:
Acrostic
In Essiac I Will Trust - Short Version(The tea is pronounced ESS-i-ac)
The tea I use was born in Canada.
Holistic doctors told me of its name.
This strange concoction does a lot of good
with...
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Categories:
at the last minute, drink,
Form:
Quatrain
Christmas in Australiaby Robert (Bob) Moore
Its Christmas in Australia, the weathers stinking hot
got to do some shopping, but I’d really prefer not
the crowds are large and...
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Categories:
at the last minute, celebration, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
School days The busy hours at nine,
running at the last minute.
Those never ending classes
now i miss them in every
minute..
Give me back my school days
is the...
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Categories:
at the last minute, childhood, life, nostalgia, sad, schoolschool, me,
Form:
Free verse
Seeking My DreamsI wish I wouldn’t stop me, it’s a painful problem of mine every day.
I plan things almost forever, then at the last minute freeze or...
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Categories:
at the last minute, adventure, angst, inspirational, philosophy, upliftingme, me,
Form:
I do not know?
The Big City GigAnother Tale Of Musical Madness...
It was in the early seventies...
My friend and rhythm guitar man,
Mark Trotiner, worked in a well
known musician store in NYC...
Another one...
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Categories:
at the last minute, adventure, devotion, music, natural disasters, places,
Form:
Bio
no where but here
on a velocipede against traffic pedaling hands free texting cyberspace
at the last minute the millipede with its mani pedi went to the stratosphere
to meet the...
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Categories:
at the last minute, death,
Form:
Free verse
One Sunday MorningA couple of Sundays ago, my daughter called me stating that she wanted to go to church with us. She realized that it was getting...
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Categories:
at the last minute, bible, christian, love, religion, religious,
Form:
Narrative
The Supernova of EmptinessPathetic, the word I just can't seem to outrun
it beats me to alley-way exits, creating dead to ends, enclosed places
Defeated, it might as well be...
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Categories:
at the last minute, anger, depression,
Form:
Free verse
ScramblingOh my god look at the time how did it get so late all of a sudden I can't believe I've done it again and...
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Categories:
at the last minute, anxiety, metaphor, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
CLOUDY SKIESClouds can be remarkably similar
to the friends lovers and passer-bys
that filter through our daily lives
like unexpected weekend guests
who arrive exactly as they planned
or close relatives...
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Categories:
at the last minute, funnyrain, rain, silver, trust, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Quiet on the set, ActionEvery morning spent hours, unmoving in bed.
Watching the bumps and the cracks and nothings of the ceiling.
Unreality.
Get up at the last minute.
shower, dress, eat, leave.
My...
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Categories:
at the last minute, addiction, angst, anxiety, depression, hurt,
Form:
Free verse
the misery indexadd inflation & unemployment stats,
(its highest level in 28 years)
an absence of universal healthcare,
(its highest level in 28 years)
foreclosures, lost pensions, dead 401K’s, etc.
(its highest...
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Categories:
at the last minute, life,
Form:
Free verse
intensifyhow many times does
hillary
have to tell the world
that Russia needs to do this,
or Russia needs to do that,
before she runs out of breath?---
it...
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Categories:
at the last minute, life, people, people,
Form:
Free verse