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Best Expectancy Poems

Below are the all-time best Expectancy poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of expectancy poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Soul Factory
Welcome, 
to the Soul Factory
We have cool souls,
sophisticated souls,
luxury and economy.
Choice is a matter,
of who you want to be.

Yes we ship souls,
to many exotic places.
The...

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Categories: expectancy, art, conflict, growth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rose On the Vine
She denied him ...
her first true love, yet she would not speak him
the reason so absurdly trifling that
it was gone from her memory ... completely
still,...

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Categories: expectancy, death, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pandora's Temptation
For the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its...

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Categories: expectancy, desire, hope, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Message That Never Came
She waited....
heart beat expectancy
to heightened degree
it would come
It MUST come
every day
waiting
for the message
"There must be a mistake!
How could he just vanish
disappear into thin air
and not...

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Categories: expectancy, angst, writing, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Moon
The decaying day dies, the dull dark deepens,
I am now in my own element.
For look, I, the wan moon, shines in the murky sky. 
It...

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Categories: expectancy, love,
Form: Free verse



Grandma Happy
Footsteps on stairs,
little feet pounding, running,
child faces peeking round the kitchen door,
expectancy alive, dancing in their eyes.
They know that love is always here
waiting just for...

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Categories: expectancy, grandchild, grandmother, happiness, happy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Those Who Follow Me
Sometimes I walk this road alone -- Sometimes they follow me.
Sometimes the places that I go aren’t meant for them, but me.
And, as a poet,...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expectancy, on writing and words,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member He Sleeps
My Baby softly sleeps and dreams of me
His parted lips entice to revelry 
He does not know I watch him as he sleeps
Nor that his...

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Categories: expectancy, beautiful, devotion, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member History's Greatest Miracle Play
History’s Greatest Miracle Play

Let me tell you a story - Prologue

Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s...

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Categories: expectancy, jesus,
Form: Narrative
Another African Dawn
ANOTHER AFRICAN DAWN

The silence of the dawn even before
the first bird sings its unique little composition to the world
crispness of the previous night fills the...

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Categories: expectancy, introspection, day, time,
Form: Imagism
Struggling
12/12/19
"Struggling"

I've been struggling
Doing things that are puzzling
It's rather troubling
How much liquor I've been guzzling

Shiiiit
I admit

I'm not proud at all
I got a problem with alcohol
It'll be...

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Categories: expectancy, dark, poetry, rap, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spring-Tide - Memories On the Breeze
Oh ...

Spring-tide ...
Always things that juxtapose,
Life never flows as smoothly as a gentle rill 'round a stone.
Brief notes of harmony, torn asunder by a cacophony...

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Categories: expectancy, appreciation, life, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Welcome 2013
Behold the sun of two thousand twelve go 
It rose on January one with pomp and show
Like dethroned Presidents of many countries whose
National wealth decline...

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Categories: expectancy, allegory, hope, life, peace,
Form: Couplet
Unholy Thunderous Domination
Destroy thine own brother in abject apathy
taking up arms 'midst conquering expectancy,
invoking howls of contemptible thunder 
neath skies' transparency beyond trepidation,
battles' plundering captures naught of...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expectancy, allegory, conflict, corruption, fire,
Form: Free verse
Farewell
5/12/17


Go ahead and tell
Hide in your shell
Or run away like a gazelle
Don't like your intent and what you try to sell
Farewell
Catch an L
Rot away and...

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Categories: expectancy, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme

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