Best Counting Poems
Below are the all-time best Counting poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of counting poems written by PoetrySoup members
Counting Seconds-The Rewritei sit lonely.
the crowded restaurant is thick with sound
i pick away at it
moving back into the stagnant silence
of my own comfort
the...
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Categories:
counting, mental illness,
Form:
Prose
A Beautiful Mirror-Escape of the mountain-
Do you care about my breast?
The new curve - countryside corset
The beauty of every summer dress
Laying down, wearing out gravity
Embracing...
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Categories:
counting, absence, allusion, cancer, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Cup of EmptyShe pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams
Moonbeams...
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Categories:
counting, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form:
Quatrain
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
counting, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried...
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Categories:
counting, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Sweet Sugar Cookies and Peanut Butter Bars"I dream of Candy!"
Sweet cakes and peanut butter squares
A living diabetic's nightmare. -- My heart
sings to the beat, Under the Neutron Star...
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Categories:
counting, addiction, candy, fantasy, funny,
Form:
Alliteration
AlwaysI'll always be here for you,
where else would I go.
But for you, my heart is lost,
in dream..
to counting sheep,
and always will be so.
I...
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Categories:
counting, dream, friendship, poetry, voice,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
counting, lost love, moon, sad
Form:
Free verse
SolitudeIncessant din of jammed highways
suddenly lulled to deserted streets
quiet of rustle forlorn breeze plays
laughter of birds, smiling sun greets
diamond dews glisten ruby petals
on a palette...
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Categories:
counting, self, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Holding Back the TimeIn visions of yesteryear where there was love
Nothing but despair on the faces of hope
And shattered remains of a romantic fairytale
Whose happy ending has been...
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Categories:
counting, lost love, sensual,
Form:
Verse
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's LibraryToddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...
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Categories:
counting, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
- Tomorrow You Can Fly -The one who doubts his own doubts
is like counting snowflakes in a snowstorm
Remember to thank for health and luck,
see everything in a slightly larger perspective
And...
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Categories:
counting, cheer up,
Form:
Free verse
Clerihew SoupI tell you I like, that Wayland a bunch
He'd be the guy, to be there in a crunch
Not afraid of humor, he paves the way
With...
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Categories:
counting, tribute,
Form:
Clerihew
To Touch the Breast of TwilightSoon, sunlight will yawn on the edge of dawn
and I'll welcome the warmth of his morning rays,
but never could I liken them to the great...
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Categories:
counting, moon,
Form:
Free verse
Now I Lay Me Down To SleepSoft is the pillow beneath my head
as dread sweeps over the world
Haunting dreams with chilling screams
shrill as a lonely wind
Crisp and cool is the linen...
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Categories:
counting,
Form:
Free verse