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Best Sitting Poems

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


Premium Member Broken People
I wish to be with the broken people
the get in your face challenge me people
The sometimes hidden
sitting in a dark corner kinda people
The don't you...

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Categories: sitting, people,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You 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: sitting, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Midnight Poet
Whisper's of October  

Whispers in this soup bowl
20 minutes after its muse explodes,
Daylight remains nothing more than a dream 
Warding off the howling sound...

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Categories: sitting, addiction, character, devotion, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Want Your Seeds
**"And his name was Jack"**

No one perceives what abides above the clouds. 
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs. 
I demand to see and feel...

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Categories: sitting, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Open Arms
Come to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing...

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Categories: sitting, appreciation, emotions, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: sitting, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Military Tunic
~Homeless~

A lost guardian angel, sitting on the edge of everything 
I push my shopping cart along the cracks of destiny  
My house sits on...

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Categories: sitting, memorial day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Page
Silent Heart

Sad, as it maybe, I had to break my OWN heart, 
Too many nights, I sat there all torn apart
A dream girl, 
Sitting under...

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Categories: sitting, confusion, corruption, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member -unlatched-
_______________________

So young, I was, and so naive
There was no doubt, I did believe
this babe who's latched inside my womb
with ties we had,... would always be

Latched...

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Categories: sitting, childhood, family, mother, son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mind Dance
Mind Dance

I hear you calling me
I feel you on the wind
Playing with my hair
Grazing my cheek
With kiss’s shadow

Upon your distant shores
Perched on craggy rocks
Upon sunlit...

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Categories: sitting, appreciation, beauty, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That Potent Urge -Gotta Go, Gotta Go Right Now
I think no stimulus could be
as potent as the one to pee.
A feeling frequent and innate
is this - the urge to urinate.
It comes each day...

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Categories: sitting, home,
Form: Rhyme
The Moon Pours White Wine
At a table in a garden, on a soft, sweet, summer's night
Two friends are sitting talking by the moon's reflected light.
On the table in the...

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Categories: sitting, friendship, lovegarden, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Belongings
Shadowed in the silent room, the daylight's nearly gone
Dusk climbs in through window glass, with one last ray of sun
I start the task, climb on...

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Categories: sitting, loss, love, me, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Homecoming
It was in late October in the year nineteen seventy three
That the war in South Vietnam was finally over for me
I boarded the seven o...

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Categories: sitting, america, father, home, mother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Whispering Memories
Traveling through the doorway in my heart
I emerge
Gently closing it
I place my palms on the worn hinges of time
I lay my ear near its surface
As...

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Categories: sitting, appreciation, emotions, green, heart,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs