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Listening Poems - Poems about Listening

Premium Member I'm Crying In The Car Listening to 'A Whole New World'
Streaming like the rain outside The windscreen wipers working like My heart and chopping onions stuff A testament to will the good of another The kids are in the back and can't see what's going on Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling in the driving seat I think of my wife and when we first met She was always running late As I was...

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Categories: listening, age, appreciation, april,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Contemplating life after listening to the radio
Contemplating life after listening to the radio late at night... a found poem Do you suppose thunder island is in the middle of fire lake? (I can still hear your voice from across the bay) Which of us made the first mistake? I have no time left now to go searching for maybes without answers. (I did not find those wings or...

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Categories: listening, life,
Form: Other



The Quiet that Speaks : Come to the Waters
"Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen that you may live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you." Isaiah 55:3 I chose the character trait, trustworthy, and wrote this piece alternating between prayer and listening to God speak to me. Father, all glory to You and Your Son, I treasure Your forgiveness of...

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Categories: listening, 11th grade, power,
Form: Rhyme
GHANAIAN GIRL
I told her I'm a stranger A souvenir She thought I am from Ghana Because I'm black like Ghanaians She concurred While listening to my accent She confirmed I'm a Nigerian. She said she can't Wait to have me Saying I'm one of a kind I'm always on her mind She called me the law of attraction Because like a...

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Categories: listening, africa, creation, crush, dedication,
Form: Narrative
Listening To Patsy
Memories of Formica kitchens And 2-burner Hotpoint stoves Lipstick on a menthol butt Costume pearls in rows Perfume from the five and dime Drive In’s on the field A promise made a promise kept And love — that time can’t steal (Listening To Patsy Cline: July 4th, 2025) ...

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Categories: listening, love, nostalgia, time,
Form: Rhyme



Listening To Silence
Looking out the window I didn't see a sound Nothing out there moving The world on solid ground No birds were out there singing No rustling of the leaves Is the river flowing But silent as a breeze? Was I really seeing The absence of all sound? Or was I only hearing The silence all around?...

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Categories: listening, december, peace, weather, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Flower Chide VIII, Listening Leaf
Beneath the Nefaryes timeless, tangled roots. where dreamscents rot and anger hoots, Pokenose stirs with a spore-slick grin not to charm, but to drag you in. "You reek of want without refrain, of wounds that swell instead of wane" said Rose with petals dull and bare. "Your scent is grief stripped of despair.” “Desire without end is blight,” she sighed, "A bloom that feeds...

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Categories: listening, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Listening To the Pelican's Affliction
What has brought him to this cheerful place? Is it curiosity, hunger, or an escape from loneliness? A mild wind from the East caresses the gleaming waves, and he expresses jealousy with deliberate rage; his small nest was destroyed by the wrathful storm of February, vainly, he searched for it through the bushes of wild huckleberry. The mid-spring sunrise is...

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Categories: listening, anxiety, bird, grief, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Imbalance
Feet walking with direction and decision Mouth speaking sweet words Not riddled with derision Heart beating for pure love With no malice or spite Eyes seeking and finding acceptance With no attachment of wrong or right Ears listening for a moment of bonding Not tools for inspection Head held high with pride, positivity, and deep reflection Forbidden...

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Categories: listening, allegory, character, courage, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member OF HEARING AND LISTENING: A Senryu Quartet
In human nature, hearing and listening are not the same thing:- You can hear said words but can not respond to them, if not listening:- Ancestrally said, you not listening is bad; not caring, is worse:- Being a wise one, do not just hear what is said; understand also:- ...

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Categories: listening, allegory, high school, life,
Form: Senryu
My Children Don't Miss Out on The Amazing! Listening to Others
I want to share a time, when God directed me. He used an old woman, who was a VA employee. It was a real low point in my life, I was so depressed. My wife took our girls from me, things were simply a mess. I weekly saw a Therapist, at the Bay Pines, VA. She helped me view my...

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Categories: listening, 7th grade, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Her Beauty
You’re the kind of beautiful that feels like it belongs in a poem — soft, powerful, unforgettable. You’re the kind of person that makes others believe in magic again — not the kind in fairy tales, but the real kind, the kind that lives in rare hearts like yours. You have this way of making...

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Categories: listening, appreciation, black love, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Resonance
I hear the sound of clanging and banging from a distant source Like an orchestra of metal pots that have fallen on the kitchen floor which brings a ringing to my inner ear then a low vibration comes as I stand still This frequency happens frequently transmitting a language I've yet to unveil Creating a magnetic peace during its stay One...

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Categories: listening, appreciation, hope, language, sound,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reflective Listening
Reflective listening Thats the one People can say how they have been undone Or have a glorious tale Of adventure Bad guys went to jail Listening carefully Too all they say Can perceive their...

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Categories: listening, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Do Not Forget Good Listening Skills
Start with more than one pinch of small-town Iowa mischief Sixty-five cups of empathy Fifty cups of understanding Thirty cups of honesty Stir until they are milky and comfortably pudding-like Add a half a pound of trustworthiness Set aside for an hour, maybe chill in the refrigerator In a second bowl sift together Three cups of common sense Two cups of wonder And a cup...

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Categories: listening, me,
Form: Free verse

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