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Best Stopwatch Poems

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


Premium Member This Buds For You
-This buds for you!-
-It takes one to know one!-
-I know you are, but what am I?-

A second hand, on my stopwatch, going nowhere!
You are a...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stopwatch, abuse, addiction, anger, conflict,
Form: Free verse



My First Horseback Riding Show
The air was thin and icy.
It was dark and cold outside.
A blanket of snow covered the ground.
The footprints in the snow led the way.
We loaded...

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Categories: stopwatch, animals, passion, sports, sea,
Form: I do not know?
Life Station
Pecking quick, a parting kiss
Pumping legs, a train to miss
Lovers waving, strangers pass
Tears and hugs a whistle blast 
Scanning papers on news stands
Pats on backs...

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Categories: stopwatch, introspection, life, people
Form: Rhyme
The Beat Goes On
Impressionist Poem

time clock
stopwatch
still, life moves...

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Categories: stopwatch, time,
Form: I do not know?
Life's Clock
Time is precious time is priceless 
Every second ticks a minute 
Every minute ticks an hour 
Every stroke towards the midnight hour.

Born of our mother...

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Categories: stopwatch, growing up,
Form: ABC



Armegeddon Prayer
Have you ever found yourself stranded in the tract
between what you think is fiction and what you think is fact?
And whipped so hard with the...

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Categories: stopwatch, religious,
Form: Couplet
Drunk In a Barre
Once manifested on the 
heel of Adagio in G major,
balancés and assemblés from 
the back hand. Baryshnikov told
me to flatten my stomach, so I 
repressed...

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© Grace Zha  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stopwatch, absence, abuse, dance, drink,
Form: Blank verse
Light Dawns
tercets in ABA rhyme

Clouds are blocking out the sun.
I reach for hat and raincoat,
gotta take my morning run.

Rain breezes by, it's just a mist;
but whirling...

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Categories: stopwatch, devotion, rain, sports, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Footle Fest 1
Below are 14 footles, separate and distinct, with their own titles in bold font.  A footle fest!

Sympathetic
Ben-Hur
Been her

Paving the Way
Guitar
Get tar

Muliebral Outlook
Female
Email

Origin
Sin's source
Seine's source

Borgana...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stopwatch, fun, poetry, word play,
Form: Footle
My Baby Boy
The moment you arrived I knew the hour that brought you here. You my newborn 
child, was going to be loved til' the ends of...

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Categories: stopwatch, appreciation, child,
Form: Haibun
Another Sunday Morning
Another Sunday morning
Crouched in the beam of headlights
Steam coming off coffee and breath
Fumbling to pin race bib to pants

A romance
Of sorts; this dance I’m addicted...

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© Kim Hyde  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stopwatch, appreciation, happiness, motivation, race,
Form: Lyric
Clarence the Teller of Time
I call him Clarence,
for no especial reason.
He announces in a soothing
if somewhat stilted
synthesised tone,
'The time is now ten a.m.'
He will oblige again at ten thirty
and...

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Categories: stopwatch, time,
Form: Free verse
Checkmate
Maybe I’ll lick my savage knuckles
or shoot arrows at the sun

And if our anonymous devils dance
after slipping on their potential tap shoes
we might play the...

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Categories: stopwatch, passionsilver, drug,
Form: Free verse
Silence!
Silence says I love you!,
   Also, I hate you.
Silence says I care for you,
   Also, who are you?
Silence says I am...

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Categories: stopwatch, philosophylove,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member When Time Flies
When time flies, feelings of euphoria,
spur jaw-dropping habitus within,
vision of nirvana on groundswell earth,
chirping bird amber tone on hedgerow,
cacophony that piercing aural backdrop,
riotry of wild...

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Categories: stopwatch, beautiful, beauty, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse

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