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Best Clocking Poems

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First Tweet
Quote: Some of the best speakers in the world 
are those who were listeners first....

The rain gently whispers to my window I am here 
as...

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Categories: clocking, appreciation, sound,
Form: Rhyme



Just the Daily Grind
A chill wind stung my cheeks
The sky was sullen gray,
I pulled my collar to my chin
And made my weary way.

Nothing too exciting then,
Just the daily...

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© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clocking, drink, humorous, work,
Form: Rhyme
Systematically Contrived Dust
The universe is immeasurable,
  we are merely infinitesimal
      machinery keeping pace,
as churning cogs tick wildly 
  transmitting within...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clocking, destiny, identity, life, people,
Form: Prose Poetry
Parents
Stuck in traffic, what will he do,
she just called, and said I need you.
Pains have started, five minutes apart,
would carry myself, but the car won't...

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Categories: clocking, life, love, people, time,
Form: Free verse
Man Me
Suppose the sun stop shining
And the clouds get dark
When there will be not of the courage to face life head-on
Who will be there to give...

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Categories: clocking, friendship, love, soulmate,
Form: Free verse



Taskmaster Time
The rosy sun has gone to bed
leaving me awake and all alone
upon this mountain where I sit staring
at the twilight sky yawning to stars,
pricking at...

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Categories: clocking, time,
Form: Verse
Leaving Boyhood Behind
LEAVING BOYHOOD BEHIND


White shirt 'n' school tie to blue-collar, dress-code is changing with age
From schooldays to pay-days, from homework to hard work 
School bells and...

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Categories: clocking, work, boy,
Form: I do not know?
On My Birthday
It was just a day, and 
I felt, I was snowing
In the great lagoon of fear and fantasy,
I publish my words...
Hoping that,
They would represent 
Me,...

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© Sadat Khan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clocking, birth,
Form: Elegy
My Son
The bleeding of my eyes cannot
be over emphasis as the a weakness of my heart.
i have been brave thousand times to stop the 
black sky...

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Categories: clocking, abuse, anger, art,
Form: ABC
You Make Me Better
you make me better
i see a new image of myself
i feel like i am somebody
i actually wanna live now
i feel cleaner to the touch
the height...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clocking, appreciation, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Death of Grandfather Clock
I am quite annoyed by the ticking,
or perhaps it's called 'tocking,'
by the ever-present clicking
in a language known as 'clocking.'

Must Grandfather Time command my life?
He so...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clocking, humorous, imagination, stress,
Form: Rhyme
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"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

Nine small words have leaped right through the decades....

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Categories: clocking, education, high school, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Monday
Shock horror, my alarm clock failed,


twas six AM on a Monday morning 
this summers day was just dawning,

my shift started at six, going to be...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clocking, anxiety, funny, time, work,
Form: Rhyme
Indelible
The cock of day crow over johncrow mountain
Sun come bright
Like Jane and Louise shine eye girl
And light
Just drop from heaven like ripe breadfruit
I pull the...

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Categories: clocking, hopelonging, love,
Form: Free verse
Dial Tone
I can't seem to hear the dial on this broken telephone, 
staring back at the brick walls in this greco home, 
The tone becomes ominous...

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Categories: clocking, bullying, depression, farewell, hurt,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things