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Best Expectation Poems

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


Premium Member First Communion
The powdery snow gloves the fingers 
of maple forest, protecting barren bark 
with the expectation of rose tipped bloom.

A meeting point between pristine
innocence and the...

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Categories: expectation, caregiving, childhood, devotion, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member All I Am
Long slender tendril of mist in the morning
snakes slowly across the cool water, wandering,
endlessly,
searching, moving slowly, seemingly without purpose,
without direction, without destination.
It fades like a...

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Categories: expectation, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' 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: expectation, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Feverish Fear - POTD - A Visual Video Poem - In Collaboration With Victor Buhagiar
POTD 13 March 2019

Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem. 

(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects...

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Categories: expectation, courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Behind Those Beautiful Eyes
Behind those beautiful eyes,
So much anger,so much mistrust,
Always expecting the worst,
Always conversing about the bad
things life has to offer,

Behind those beautiful eyes,
So much hurt,so much...

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Categories: expectation, fear, life, sad, beautiful,
Form: Verse



Share Not
When I go out to dinner,
I do not want to share.
I don’t care what is on your plate;
I don’t want to compare.

I scan the menu...

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Categories: expectation, food, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Treasure of Giving
The thing with giving is Expectation...
The treasure of giving is the giving itself without expecting anything in return.
A loan creates dependency,  inequality.

***

I
bend over 
and...

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Categories: expectation, care, caregiving, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Tempt Me
You tempt me
As I sense your presence by my side
The whisper of your flowing silken dress
A whiff of fragrant jasmine scent.
 
You tempt me
With each...

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Categories: expectation, passion, sensual,
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: expectation, desire, hope, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Fruit of Love - An Array
Nature unfurls charms
Loving emotions flourish
Her cup runs over

Exquisite passion
Limbs entwined in sweet embrace
Move in symphony

Senses on fire
Symphonic crescendos peak
Cocooned in slumber

Nature’s Miracle
Blooming as she takes...

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Categories: expectation, celebration, love, mother, sensual,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Song of Michael's Rose
The cottage reeks with
fluid tides of hope,
incessantly commanding.
My baby’s here.
I’ve still no word 
coming down the line from Dover.
Winter’s gone...
Spring rains have come
and with it...

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Categories: expectation, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Temptress : a Collab With Em
You tempt me
As I sense your presence by my side
The whisper of your flowing silken dress
A whiff of fragrant jasmine scent.

You tempt me
With each flicker...

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Categories: expectation, desire, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dandilion
With Youth.....

Watch this girl...
she has her eyes
on a rising dandelion
sprouted in high grass,
a pensive girl, 
weaving her way through the fields,
looking past weeds to her...

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Categories: expectation, age, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Show Me What Life Is
I move my hurtful head and stare forlorn
Over my non-existing boundary,
Where past is seen and future laughs decayed.
Here language is an unwelcome guest,
In stillness awkward,...

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Categories: expectation, abuse, boy, child, child
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Hope
'Tis a Dicken's prayer to arouse
Tired masses from their slumber
With an expectation born of trust
Leaving all in righteous wonder.

Hope travels light... a treasured friend.
It clears...

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Categories: expectation, christmas, courage, hope,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs