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Best Thinking Time Poems

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Thinking Time
I’m
not sure
whether I have 
free time or there 
are things I’ve 
forgot to 
do...

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Categories: thinking time, age, funny,
Form: Shape



Premium Member Ode to a speck
A singular speck
So rarely noticed
More often removed rather than studied
But here you are, you made it
In view!
All we crave and despise 
'to be looked at'
I...

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Categories: thinking time, art,
Form: Ode
For Laura
For Laura

She suffered in silence from the years of abuse
If not for the violence she felt of no use
She denied that her soul was addicted...

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Categories: thinking time, depression, hope, philosophy, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Heartbreak Sonnet
Heartbreak is like shattered glass
They say they are here forever
Yet while you believed their butt
Forever is a lie, they actually mean never

Planning a future, gets...

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Categories: thinking time, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Mike the Mechanic
He can fix anything

no matter the year

the make, the model

but has his own way 

 

No, just throw that

on the scrapheap

with all the others

 

Seriously,...

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© Uwe Stroh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thinking time, courage,
Form: Free verse



Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill Leader Clerihew
Born in 1874 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill 
Nicknamed Winnie, with a Bulldog spirit ~ resembled my Bulldog Bill
In thinking time sat on his ‘Throne’, Lord...

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Categories: thinking time, humor, leadership, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
Sanctuary
Sometimes I have an impulse to scream.
I’m so approachable, contactable –
Email, mobile, in person –
Is there any time that’s mine?
Do I need any silence?
Thinking time?
Control?
Self-control?
All...

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© Debbie Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thinking time, timetime, love, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hopper's Automat Expressed Poetically and Abstract
Inspired by the painting Automat by Edward Hopper in 1927.

The painting shows a lone woman sat at automated restaurant table.

Viewing the painting will enhance the...

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Categories: thinking time, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Wonderland
Night time is such a long time
 Time of thinking,time of dreaming
 Dreaming of all the good times
 Thinking of all the bad signs

 But...

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Categories: thinking time, dream, imagination, life, time,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Monoku- Time Clicks
it is a dark night...moon has been watching earth thinking- time clicks new year



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December 27, 2017


Poetry/Monoku/time ticks
Copyright Protected, ID 17-9679-76-0
All Rights Reserved.  Written Under...

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Categories: thinking time, new year,
Form: Monoku
Caged Women
Caged Women, treated like cave women,
 not by our men like long ago.
Caged women, treated like crazed women, 
a power struggle only few women know.
Dominated...

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Categories: thinking time, introspection, women, women,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Do I Exist Aka More Automat
Do I exist without shadow
Am I anything without light
He talks of my decadent glow 
Should I step out into the night

Frozen with knowledge and foresight...

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Categories: thinking time, art, love,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Wondering
Looking out the window is easy
But can you go further than that vision
Looking at a door is easy
But can you go out that door instead...

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Categories: thinking time, adventure, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To These Times
Today
time took time
to think;

Then truth
took thinking time
to task;

Testing teasing themes
that today taught;
trouncing telltale tragedies....

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Categories: thinking time, 12th grade, allegory, analogy,
Form: Alliteration
Hourglass
Hourglass
By MEH3

As time passes
we try to find our own way
Not understanding life challenges
but not willing to turn astray

We notice our feet moving
However, it feels like...

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Categories: thinking time, blessing, encouraging, faith, god,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs