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Deadlines Poems - Poems about Deadlines

Deadlines Poems - Examples of all types of poems about deadlines to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for deadlines.
When Death Stopped for Me
...Because I could not escape from Life – It rudely dragged me forth – The chaos swirled, consuming all – And Oblivion, my worth. We raced through days – no time to rest – And I, a franti......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, age, cry, destiny, endurance,
Form: Free verse



Things I should've learned in math class but didnt
...There's a hole in the fabric of my universe Sometimes I slip inside and zip it up Time loses meaning here no future, no past The present in this space is only an imaginary playground between the......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, art,
Form: Free verse
6 W's
...6 W's So it is again. Caught in the cycle of life. Where everything is responsibility, expectations, and decay. And the bastards beat you down with their rules and their deadlines. Where the......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, age, angst, confusion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
PARASITE
...It’s a parasite’s world. The worm of laziness Clogging the mind, Ego refusing change. It’s a parasite’s world, Seeping through one’s blood and breath. Adoption, adaptation to change, an uphi......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the indigo night
...(Inspired by 'Indigo Night' by Thomas W Case) A thousand thousand stars pierce the indigo night, but no moon mars the canvas, or lightens velvet strokes. Half-hearted waves slap at shoreline r......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, dark, memory, morning, night,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
...Toddlers' Exploration: Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast, Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts. Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach, Soaring through tales of barnyard Wadd......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Secrets Crumbling Like Biscuits Dipped
...White foam crashes with memories of conversations here, an awful date there; welcoming steam floats around work deadlines, lecture notes and scrawls. Cupped hands warm around porcelain gossips wi......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The End Of The Year
...The end of the year is the dawn of a new one. The sadness and the yesterdays are all gone. We have in front of us: a new era, a new horizon; We are hoping and dreaming of a better season. The m......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, anniversary, celebration, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deadlines
...I had a meeting to submit my work I had stayed awake all night putting finishing touches to the project I rushed out of the house to meet the cab The deadline was 9:00am I was rushing to me......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, anger, day, fate, humanity,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Letter
...“Even after our corporeal form leaves, a letter speaks to us in a language so intimate, conveying pent up emotions so personalized that one cannot express through spoken words without causing embarra......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, angst, bereavement, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rest's Sweet Company
...I could not pause to rest so Rest enveloped me In the guise of Injury O, the red that I did see Yet as time passed in Rest's sweet company Much to my surprised delight ......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, farewell, stress, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Land of If
...In the land of "If" somewhere this side of forgotten dreams the world is very foggy and nothing is as it seems There are no deadlines or plans things just happen as they may There are no new ......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, adventure, growth, happiness, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dolce Far Niente
...Turning sideways, once more I lay crouched in bed, Not compelled to wake up and run round the clock. The family, gone on a four-day adventurous trip. Left to myself, may I devour this ......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, appreciation, holiday, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Beating the Clock
...I was an ambitious fine watchmaker, looking forward to sunshine tomorrows, Like the remote edge of a fuchsia horizon, where gather racy, blue swallows. I worked on clocks of all styles and sizes,......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, fantasy, imagery, life, meaningful,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member High Note
...This evening never seemed so nice, at the end of a daylight breeze.... Sunshine without thick humidity Where the crickets sing around me A break from gray filled rainy days The sky prepares for......Read the rest...
Categories: deadlines, appreciation, creation, nature, peace,
Form: Rhyme

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