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Clock Watching Poems - Poems about Clock Watching


Premium Member Clock Watching
Five a.m, off to fetch the papers. Passing houses with blue lit bedrooms. Teenagers, gaming, or networking until sleep beckons around eight. If only they knew what they miss- Foxes, a mixture of caution and hunger, Cats, eyes like twin moons, in street lights. A diminished dawn chorus, late on parade. The distant church bell, no longer muffled by grumbling traffic. Dawn's blue ribbon, soon...

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Categories: clock watching, age,
Form: Free verse
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cheerful summertime a minor, long planet hot whilst watching the clocks 6/20/20 WRITTEN WORDS BY James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©...

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Categories: clock watching, analogy, engagement, environment, image,
Form: Haiku



Clock Watching
Time waits for no man. The saying goes. Does it not? I beg to differ. Yes , we are Governed by it. Ruled by time. Our lives are constantly 'on the clock'. You have a due date at birth, Sometimes early , sometimes late. Always the clock rules our lives. Late for school. Late for work. Chastised because you don't conform to the clock. No praise for being...

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Categories: clock watching, anxiety, birth, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Clock Watching
Clock Watching Stare blankly at a Clock And watch time stop On clockwise finger's As seconds linger Into Day's and Month's And when you wake From the tick and tock Of the body's clock Your face will appear older The Winters colder And what has seemed a solitary minute Has come to pass A life in sections We choose to remember In broken memories Once Upon...

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Categories: clock watching, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Clock Watching
I watch the clock All night and all day Watching the seconds Tick-tocking away...

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Categories: clock watching, time,
Form: Narrative



Clock Watching
Sneaking glances at the clock! Counting the hours until you are here with me. Counting the hours, Over and over, Seems like eternity. Counting the hours, Until your arms enforld me. Tick Tick Tock! Time ...

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Categories: clock watching, love,
Form: Free verse

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