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Best Watch And Wait Poems

Below are the all-time best Watch And Wait poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of watch and wait poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Choice
A vulture and owl
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Categories: watch and wait, addiction,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member The Remaining - Prologue: Terra Firma and the Bitumen
“The Remaining”

PROLOGUE:  “Terra Firma and The Bitumen”


"The slow descent into Hell
Had led Her mind to escape to Heaven
Her firmament was Her Mind
Her body just...

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Categories: watch and wait, angel, daughter, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse
The Flight
I awake to the dawning of another day
To my knees, I fall and begin to pray
This prayer is different, unlike any before
All of the sudden,...

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Categories: watch and wait, christian, destiny, flying, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Black Folks Got Rhythm
Black folks got rhythm
full movements
undeterred, and
flexible as four winds.
How low can we go?
with limbo
it's in our hands
with early rising;
planting seeds of joy,
washed in ray of...

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Categories: watch and wait, america, black love, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Next Hitler
The Next Hitler

The next Hitler will execute the world’s masses, 
Using costly powerful pharmaceuticals;
Feel-good grenades that bring euphoric explosions.
Metal bombs and bullets belong to a...

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Categories: watch and wait, holocaust,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member All We Do Is Sow
A seed is put into the ground
It rests beneath the sun
The miracle of what springs forth
Almighty hands have done

The sower having done his part
In faith...

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Categories: watch and wait, faith, inspirational, miracle, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Watchful Eye
The Bulldog leashed, back in his yard.
It's time for rest, he played his card.
The job at hand, has now been done.
He now shows peace, for...

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Categories: watch and wait, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Intelligence
Kind eyes peer 
out of pages 
gentle features 
of grace replace 
calculated poses 
touched by 
the sun-The sun 
brush-stroked 
color --into his 
cheeks and face...

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Categories: watch and wait, muse, retirement, writing,
Form: Ode
Premium Member The Dragon Flight
Atop a jagged pinnacle, 
he sits, just waiting; 
ragged wings stretch into flight.
Dragon eyes his prey; 
downward sweep and clasp 
brings supper for a dragon.

We...

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Categories: watch and wait, introspection, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Waiting In the Wings
They watch, they wait
to see my fate.
never adding nor subtracting
hauntingly and numb.
They wait in the wings
of indifference 
to announce my outcome....

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Categories: watch and wait, analogy, sad,
Form: Alliteration
Fish Pond
the playful kitten
   gazes deep into fish pond -
   koi watch and wait...

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Categories: watch and wait, animal, fish,
Form: Haiku
Gods Timing
GODS TIMING

 IN HIS TIMING  HIS WILL  AND HIS WAY

The day the hour and timing unknown
Mistaking we see His patience as absence
When in...

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Categories: watch and wait, christian, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am
I Am Poet

I see the way they look away
though I know that they don't know it.
I see that they think less of me
when I say...

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Categories: watch and wait, appreciation, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flower Pots
My garden is filled in pots                   ...

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Categories: watch and wait, butterfly, flower, garden, rain,
Form: List
Show Me the Way
Show me the way...cause I've been so lost
Lost in lies and never counting the cost
In clouds of confusion I fall down in the fog
Drawn into...

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Categories: watch and wait, god,
Form: Blank verse

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