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Best Impatience Poems

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


Premium Member Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead

Eyes sadly deprived...

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Categories: impatience, fate, first love, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Touch the Breast of Twilight
Soon, 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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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impatience, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oblivion
“I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
Chuck Palahniuk


Is there such a metaphor as...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impatience, abuse, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 13
In his seething silence, I spoke, softly to him,
“Did I desire once to be higher than you, oh seething heart?
Could I, in my human flesh,...

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Categories: impatience, adventure, confusion, courage, heart,
Form: Epic
Hidden In the Rain
She has faced the ghosts from her past.
Traveled beyond the razor's edge.
She is haunted by shame's overcast.

Once engulfed in misery's darkness.
Blame it on insecurity.
Storms of...

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Categories: impatience, abuse, anger, anxiety, break
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: impatience, abuse, boy, child, child
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 14
Despite his impatience to show me his hell,
He waited for me in my rest, 
Lying upon the ground, I awoke in prayer,
Thanking God above and...

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Categories: impatience, adventure, anxiety, conflict, courage,
Form: Epic
Always the Lady
An hour before time, they put her through the motions.
Shoving and pulling her strings adding oil and suntan lotion.
Hot and humid still shining in candid...

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Categories: impatience, dedication, friendship, journey, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Midnight's Trail
Your poetry talks to me in the moody night
a voice of indigo telling me secrets of pain and love
while Luna licks my ear with impatience...

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Categories: impatience, desire, howl, winter,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Awesome Blossom
The night's impatience sky
Twists itself around our earth
There, falling stars will fly
While the moon proves what it's worth

I'm standing in this field, 
Just waiting for...

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Categories: impatience, appreciation, beauty, blessing, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Refiners Fire
I am a bar of gold as shiny as can be
At least that is what I see
But inwardly other alloys lie
Seen only by the refiners...

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© Carol Agee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impatience, faith, inspirational, fire, fire,
Form: Didactic
Hoarding Hope - the Odd Ball
Get me feeling well
For, I am sick as hell
Brain orgasms and headaches rape my mind and left me thoughtlessly behind
Trying to keep the Kingdom in...

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Categories: impatience, angst, depression, emotions, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Rubaiyat For the Climbing Poet
While I blew on my hands and held my tongue
A startling star swung out of the sky,
And though to gravity need not comply,
Descended to ledge...

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Categories: impatience, art, culture, mountains, philosophy,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Debt and the Devil's Dancers
Everybody needed something,
and there was always something in the world that needed somebody,
debt is all about connections to affections,
sustenence to stimulus is only half of...

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Categories: impatience, business,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Hashtags and Selfies
HASHTAGS AND SELFIES
This era of the ego,hashtags
and selfies..and me me me...
to the fore,impatience always
knocking on my door.
Instant this,instant that,self
congratulation,superficial self
expression..quickly,quickly..I've 
social media to explore.
Insecurity underlines...

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Categories: impatience, satire,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs