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Best Expectant Poems

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


Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: expectant, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Rain Over Vietnam
There is the calm before the rain
It’s almost silent all around
The clouds expectant in the sky
Foreboding birds are homeward bound.

The soldiers stare at looming clouds
There...

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Categories: expectant, rain, war,
Form: Quatern
Dark Dawn
Dawn
hopeful, expectant
tantalizing, exhilarating, inviting
friends, citizens, government, politicians
inciting, embezzling, dictating
greedy, covetous
Darkness...

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Categories: expectant, political,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member Real Mccoy - Or Is She - POTD
POTD

Synthetic hyper realistic - eclectic not eccentric 
Android Humanoid - naturalistic totally orgasmic
Unnatural physicality this futuristic fem-bot fantasy  
Against all normality she is the...

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Categories: expectant, desire, future, lust, technology,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Speaking With a Loud Quiet Voice
You speak into your child's life in whispers
With the strength of the four winds
No need for yelling
For your child has expectant ears

Wisdom
A fathered gift
Born out...

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Categories: expectant, blessing, father,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Unfettered Words
Sometimes, there is, between the lines,
a silence, that trembles with unspoken goodbyes
Expectant and charged, like a theater scene,
in the moments before the curtains rise.

In the...

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Categories: expectant, autumn, introspection, loss, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forever Love
FOREVER LOVE

 Margie........my one and only........Margie

 love's music echoes timeless
 spring fed      it flows forever

 Pop would get up early,...

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Categories: expectant, inspirational, lovelove, i love
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Don'T Quit Your Dream- POTD
Night stirred memories, once forgotten of the days 
I burnt in love when you consumed my days,
and I carried you like a queen in the...

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Categories: expectant, angst, dream, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Inherent Swimming
Stepping past the crater towards your door,
     I am reminded of warm days
surrendered in flowery abandon while
     brushing against cool veins of
leafy promise, requiring only the slightest
     compassion...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expectant, nature, war
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Memory of Backyards

Back then,
backyards were big enough
to nurture a growing soul
and provide a space
for the earth to play out
its seasons in full rehearsal.
There were wide tracks 
of...

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Categories: expectant, childhood, growth, home, in
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sonnet Chiweenie Boo
Your dad, a Dachshund once stuck in Chihuahua.
The best of both in you, with that expectant
Confusing carpets for the lawn enigma.
I know….the raining….getting wet….you can’t.

As...

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Categories: expectant, animal, best friend, dog,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Spring Revival
Acres of lush emerald meadows
burst forth from pregnant earth,
creating the perfect background for a
dazzling array of wildflowers.
Expectant mothers of beast and fowl
fill the countryside with...

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Categories: expectant, hope, nature, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Christmas Magic
(A Christmas Collage) 

The sun has set and night is stealing
Softly o'er the silent land,
While snowflakes slowly down are falling,
Shaken from an unseen hand.

To the...

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Categories: expectant, angel, child, christmas, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Out With the Old - In With the New
The old year hobbles out - his path an aftermath of blunders.

Glowingly expectant, the new year readies for a grand entrance -

wearing nothing but ...

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Categories: expectant, seasons, new year,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Imperfect Love
It's so easy
to play the blame game
to be unrealistically expectant
to want perfection
It's so easy

It's easy
to want you to mold yourself
into my concept
of the ideal man
to...

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Categories: expectant, husband, marriage,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs