Best Countdown Poems

Ten is the number to begin
Early in the garden
Gathering herbs, foxglove and more
On her face casual grin

Nine are the ingredients here
Placed in beef stew to simmer
It will be tender, succulent
For his eye will grow dimmer

Eight minutes sear the stew beef 
Add some herbs like lemon...

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Words he formed.
  Shells, pebbles, sorted by color
    Straight grey lines
      Curved watery blue
        Rosy dots
          Sand dollar phrases
 ...

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Counting down the days until i die
on this bed of thorns and nail
i will forever cry.
in life you won't see me try to patch
up all this pain.
hatred mends the holes in my heart
hold on you haven't heard the best part.
i will burn myself upon the...

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Israel and Palestine duel, as Iran pulls the strings
Abiding under the rule of the Country with the wings
As Russia looks down Turkey is twisting in the wind
All seeking one crown or just the chance to rescind

As Trump stokes the fire, Maduro concedes to Putin
Netanyahu's situation...

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Into the potter’s field, the countdown of silver
coins, clinking out the betrayal of the potter,
who formed the traitor with his holy hands,
who let him join his circle, hear a host of words
from the mouth of “I Am.” He looked directly
into Judas’ eyes, called him friend....

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In junior high, one day a week
The radio would play
The top hits, 25 of them
And so, without delay

My friend and I would hurry home
And hang out in her room
To hear the countdown, which,
Like m&m’s, we would consume.

I kept a notebook, writing down
From 25 to 1,
The...

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Just from four now
for tiredness
morrow
stalks...

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On the 10th day of Christmas -
I didn't have a true love.
I burned my knee caps with cigarette butts.

On the 9th day of Christmas -
I reminisced about the death of John Lennon
and watched re-runs of Gunsmoke.

On the 8th day of Christmas -
I called my cell...

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countdown days
refrain communication
smiling Valentine...

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Prepared for when Death
schedules his meeting, I… 
A patient landmine...

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COUNTDOWN TO FOREVER

Give me eternity so that I may contemplate the wonders of the heavens … 
            Let me witness the cycles of galactic trends,
         ...

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Digits can be numbers, and our numbers mean a lot!
But digits I rate highest are the digits that I’ve got:
those literally a part of me; the five upon each hand
comprise my top ten digits, and here’s what makes them grand:
Without my top ten digits, there’s...

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Day one; Katrina arrives and all the rich leave
till the only ones left are the poor and naive.
And sea and air meet in a mass of screaming death
as some of the sick and injured breathe their last breath.

Day two; levees fail and water floods the...

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It all started with a countdown from ten...
My own self-destruction shall begin
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired
From trying to get hired
To trying NOT to get fired
Jesus! I can't control all this rage
Should I let the beast out of his cage?
As I struggle...

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When Jack Frost is abroad
And the Thanksgiving snow falls
When we hear the first sleigh bell’s ring
Christmas isn’t far away at all
So make those lists and join the throng
Of happy shoppers down at the mall...

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