Best Waiting Poems
Below are the all-time best Waiting poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of waiting poems written by PoetrySoup members
The RoseThis is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls that...
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Categories:
waiting, absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"
Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...
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Categories:
waiting, death, death, god, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Eternal Life and the Total Self
Life is but a fleeting whisper echoing through time,
never dying, always being- magnificent and sublime.
The body's a receptacle, a superficial shell,
but in it dwells the...
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Categories:
waiting, death,
Form:
Rhyme
I Wore Your Skin~I wore your skin~
Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy
Brother, I...
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Categories:
waiting, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Best Poem Ever~The best poem ever~
Without saying a word I’m going to go where no one has gone before.
A twilight zone, only God and I know of....
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Categories:
waiting, death, words, heart, heart,
Form:
Epic
Swan Ballerina PagesLike delicate white swans were they,
the white swans of a grand ballet -
ballerinas waiting in a row
underneath the candlelight’s soft glow.
But what are ballerinas with...
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Categories:
waiting, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Personification
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...
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Categories:
waiting, death, evil, family, fate,
Form:
Haibun
Island SpiritIsland Spirit
Palm trees are swaying island style
Within the gentle trade wind's flow,
As Egrets glide on salty air—
Then land where verdant grasses grow.
Breathe in sweet scents...
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Categories:
waiting, adventure, beauty, nature, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
waiting, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon a Purple SunriseOnce Upon a Purple Sunrise
Pretty as a Periwinkle,
in your frilly summer frock,
the one with purple polka dots
that matched the cool of early dawn.
Haloed in hazy...
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Categories:
waiting, memory, morning, summer,
Form:
Free verse
So Soft Is the Sonnet of WillowsThis is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it.
It is something I wrote...
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Categories:
waiting, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Shepherd Who Forgot His FlockIt's raining again, grey neon skies,
washing away suppressed surfaces,
to reveal unhealed wounds,
to scars the eyes cannot see
sometimes they bleed.
Some say words heal,
but I resist to...
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Categories:
waiting, childhood, emotions, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
waiting, bird, hope, love,
Form:
Shape
All That I Have Taken InAt day's end, I take in the last light
seeping into the dark waters
across the bay and keep it here.
I gather the sound of departing gulls
smudged...
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Categories:
waiting, eve, nature, spiritual, sunset,
Form:
Free verse
Where Gladiators FoughtPart I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...
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Categories:
waiting, passion, places,
Form:
Epic