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Best Clock Watching Poems

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Clock Watching
I watch the clock
All night and all day
Watching the seconds
Tick-tocking away...

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Categories: clock watching, time,
Form: Narrative



Clock Watching
Time waits for no man.
The saying goes.
Does it not?
I beg to differ.
Yes , we are Governed by it.
Ruled by time.
Our lives are constantly 'on the...

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Categories: clock watching, anxiety, birth, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Clock Watching
Five a.m, off to fetch the papers.
Passing houses with blue lit bedrooms.
Teenagers, gaming, or networking
until sleep beckons around eight.
If only they knew what they miss-
Foxes,...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clock watching, age,
Form: Free verse
Clock Watching
Sneaking glances at the clock!
Counting the hours until you are here with me.
Counting the hours,
Over and over,
Seems like eternity.
Counting the hours,
Until your arms enforld me.
Tick
...

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Categories: clock watching, love,
Form: Free verse
Clock Watching
Clock Watching 

Stare blankly at a Clock
And watch time stop 

On clockwise finger's
As seconds linger
Into Day's and Month's 

And when you wake
From the tick and...

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Categories: clock watching, childhood,
Form: Free verse



When Night Brings Its Stillness, Silence and Tick, Tick, Tick
When Night Brings Its Stillness, Silence And Tick, Tick, Tick
Collaboration with Robert Lindley
8th March 2019

Town was quiet, its heart barely beating
midnight hour came and went...

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Categories: clock watching, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Night Brings Its Stillness, Silence and Tick, Tick, Tick
When Night Brings Its Stillness, Silence And Tick, Tick, Tick

Town was quiet, its heart barely beating
midnight hour came and went so fast
moon and stars blinked...

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Categories: clock watching, art, creation, deep, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fridays
Clock-watching Fridays,
Bring sweet sanity to souls,
Weary of the rat race.
...

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Categories: clock watching, life, poems, poetry, work,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Just a Couple of Haikus
Wait a minute it's 
True patience is a virtue
Pass time clock watching


Comes the pouring rain
Greenery grows mellow treats
Sipping natures milk...

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Categories: clock watching, beauty, green, growth, happy,
Form: Haiku
The Perfect Time of the Day
It happens twice a day,
That time when the big and little hand on our clocks get together at six,
To make six thirty the call.
The only...

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Categories: clock watching, allusion, art, break up,
Form: Imagism
The Girl That Made Me Sad To Watch
defeated Cassandra
                       ...

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Categories: clock watching, allegory, angst, introspection, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Again
He goes again the door closes. 
Cant wait to hear the key in the  opening door again.
Cant wait to see his eyes again
Cant wait...

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Categories: clock watching, husband, love, sad,
Form: Verse
The Blackness
Frightful day, full of strain,
waiting, wondering, hoping, 
clock watching, biding time.
Final word spoken.

The darkness did descend.
Lying in wait.
A wicked demon hibernating in my chest,
ready to...

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Categories: clock watching, health, inspirational, life,
Form: I do not know?
Sleep Deprivation
Victimized by time, is the clock-watching man; Fervently anticipating an immortal response 
to reassure him that these moments are his to experience. What agony it...

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Categories: clock watching,
Form: Verse
I Never Thought
I never thought it would be me,
Waiting month after month,
Hoping fertile blessings would cast a shadow on thee,
I never thought it would be me,
Feeling bitter...

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Categories: clock watching, heartbreak, image,
Form: Free verse

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