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Clock Poems - Poems about Clock

Premium Member The Grandfather clock
The grandfather clock A grandfather clock sat in pride of place in my childhood home I would sit at its base and watch the magical movements of the pendulum I would talk to the clock as if were a close friend As I grew older our friendship continued One evening I tossed and turned in bed, sleep eluded tonight laying there...

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Categories: clock, cheer up, childhood, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Once Upon A Time
Still a child at heart tho' older are some other parts and only for a lark back to my childhood here I hark I remember a rhyme in the far reaches of my mind hickory dickory dock the mice ran up the clock the clock struck one the mouse fell down luckily the plucky other ducked shucked and jived escaped survived got out alive and ran away to live another...

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Categories: clock, animal, death, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



The Clock that no Longer Tells Time
I am no longer of use. That much is clear. They pass me by like I’m furniture— just another shape gathering dust in the corner of the kitchen where light rarely lands. My face, once proud, is smudged now— not by time, but by its absence. I used to hold their mornings together: 6:45, the hiss of the kettle. 7:02, cereal spiraling into bowls. 7:58, the door slammed...

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Categories: clock, sad,
Form: Free verse
Continuum
Burning the midnight oil while writing this poem one line at a time looking for reason searching for meaning making words scan and having them rhyme consider the hands of a clock as around the dial they rotate some arrive early (tick-tock tick-tock) others come in late one is fast the other slow round and round and round they go observe this strange conundrum it's a paradox...

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Categories: clock, appreciation, encouraging, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Six Feet Under
Where there's a will there's a funeral death is a fact of life a grave undertaking for a mortician and one day some day you and I will wake up dead hopefully the lifetime led was of our own making too late for looking back no regrets and yet it's appalling when we wind up in a winding sheet waiting on that beir aside from six feet under where do we go from...

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Categories: clock, death, funeral, grave, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Clock Humming
Clock Humming Clocks hands moving slowly In no hurry With no worries Content and humming Clocks chiming Time wondering With no company Some people are the same Parallel reminiscing Color’s fading Time crawling No complaints Hearts content No burdens Take it easy Just out of curiosity Eyes are glazed In a haze Delirium sometimes Clock...

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Categories: clock, time,
Form: Rhyme
What do you fear?
It's a fresh day To play in a new way To convey each light ray More pray, no delay, fair pay We stay where we lay What can I say? Stand up, quit your sit Take a breath, rest a bit Ensure you stay fit Get ready for the hit Grab your jumping kit Fall not into pit As he'd walk into your block In seconds, he'll...

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Categories: clock, destiny, dream, encouraging, imagery,
Form: Lyric
The Broken Clock
It stands in dust on the mantle high It's hands long still beneath the sky Once it chimes with a golden cheer Marking love, and loss, and every year Now silence pulls where rhythm lays Time forgot to come this way It's face is cracked, brass grown pale A ghost adrift without a sail The hours sleep behind the glass Moments trapped that cannot...

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Categories: clock, art, feelings, inspiration, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
What Sound Makes the Clock? - May 11
A woman splayed upon a lofty beach— the drunkard’s stumble-street-strut-jumble-key— BUY NOW, AND GET THE SECOND [this/that] FREE! —and what’s this cracked out weirdo got to preach? …”about the senate’s 3rd bid to impeach…”— .(Get lost.-)—.IF YOU THINK YOU’LL NEVER BELIE— look,look!a man crushed by a falling tree!— —(“oh!—my God!”)—nvm—it’s…freedom…of speech? Get real! Wake up! Which trope must I invoke?— (Uh?)—GET REAL RELIEF...

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Categories: clock, addiction, confusion, corruption, culture,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member clock
time moves very s l o ...

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Categories: clock, angst, anxiety,
Form: Haiku
Heartbeat
Like a ticking clock~ a drum’s rhythm in darkness... wings f l u t t e r i n g within a sky inside me....

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Categories: clock, deep, heart, metaphor, romantic,
Form: Verse
My Old Alarm Clock
A metal shell, a face so plain, With numbers bold in sun or rain. The steady tick, a rhythmic beat, Announcing hours bitter or sweet. No gentle chimes, no subtle sound, But a jarring buzz that shook the ground. A sudden jolt, a rude embrace, Dragging us from sleep's soft space. We'd slap the top with sleepy hand, To silence its insistent command. A moment's...

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Categories: clock, nostalgia, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Clock Struck One
At twelve forty-five, the clock struck one, and when it had seen what it had done, after sixty more minutes flew, that timekeeper struck two. It never learned, next to the shelf: "Always keep your hands to yourself", so, it continued its violent spree. An hour later, it struck three. Reinforcements came through the door - but, too late, that timepiece...

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Categories: clock, humor, murder, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time Marches On
Time Marches Forward Our relationship is done we can no longer continue. The hands of time have stopped for us. It is too late to turn back the clock. For a while we had great fun. But the ticking clock marked the denouement of our time together. ...

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Categories: clock, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christian Marclay’s The Clock - quick draft
written just before going to sleep the actual time is merely a notion to see time as an experience elevates watching time becomes hypnotic fixed for a moment, yet time happened, happens, happening I must and mustn't view it it'll take my minutes, I'll gift them for a seat I won't ask for them back, not in the...

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Categories: clock, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

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