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Best Watcher Poems

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Premium Member The Watcher
I watched a weeping willow
Dancing with a summer breeze
A timeless dance of lovers
They'd rehearsed for centuries

The zephyr would excite her
With his warm southwesterlies
She'd gently sway...

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Categories: watcher, nature,
Form: Rhyme



The People Watcher
See the people watcher
Still as a mantis
Endless ambient sounds, unidentifiable
Does not prevent his gaze
He studies her eyes; her smile
And undresses her mind
The watcher finds himself
Transfigured...

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Categories: watcher, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am Or Maybe I Am Not
I am
Still I wonder
Who I am
Am I who
Am I what
Am I where
Am I here
I am
Yet I am not
My words travel beyond myself
I am made up...

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Categories: watcher, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sorrow


"Sorrow" 

Reality cries its tears
of grief and fear 
calling out to Love 

the song heard 

in all of human kind
beseeching Love
in self, 

the conscious 
collective...

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Categories: watcher, love, muse, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
The Old Oak
I once was a grand and old oak tree,
Wearing my crown with shades of green.
A protector of fields, a watcher of night.
I stood with my...

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Categories: watcher, death, dedication, deep, journey,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Amused By the Universe
I’m a secret watcher of Dr. Who, but now you know, and his tardis is bigger on the inside as the cult following knows. So...

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Categories: watcher, humor, imagery, poets,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Empty Quarter
Desirous dust devils dance for a glowing gold god,
withering winds wandering whither they wish.

Silenced as shadows stretch, silhouetting strange shapes,
elongated ellipses etching the expansive emptiness.

Quickly...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: watcher, earth, nature, stars, universe,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Ashes and Thirst
Ashes and Thirst

Evil comes in all shapes, and all sizes. 
We have all heard this many times... before. 
But how truly large, or small can...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: watcher, abortion, america, anxiety, funeral,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Smitten and Bitten By Bytes
You move your body
but you can’t  change your mind
To many broken bits
It’s your choice to waste your time
You wish and you want
to finally be...

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Categories: watcher, computer, crush, fantasy, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Defender of the Wastes
What makes a speech out of words,
I have just washed the tombs of lords.
Oh, what’s my knot?
What’s my knot?

You can judge the theme not.
Words, trickle...

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Categories: watcher, art, life, parody, world,
Form: Free verse
Haiku - Seasoning
crows collecting twigs

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Categories: watcher, bird, spring,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Freedom
Freedom 

I can go outside. 
I can go inside. 
I can climb a mountain, 
or swim in the sea. 

Freedom. 

I am free....

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: watcher, beach, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Free verse
The Great Ordeal
the marked must go quietly in the night
without a word of farewell
through the trembled dust
down the dark road from which they say
no one returns

the gods...

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Categories: watcher, africa, conflict, courage, dark,
Form: Free verse
The Black River Mills
The black river mills are seen in the distance
The red skies show spiraling, gray clouds
The earth is man’s canvas
And the mills slowly mix the paint
We...

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Categories: watcher, black african american, brother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thought Police
Thought Police

Be careful what you say, 
be careful who you say it to. 
It might be heard... 
by someone that does not like it!

They will...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: watcher, abortion, abuse, addiction, allah,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs