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Lying In Wait Poems - Poems about Lying In Wait

Lying In Wait Poems - Examples of all types of poems about lying in wait 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 lying in wait.
Premium Member I Resolve
... **not to start lying in wait to exact revenge on those who cruise down my little street late at night playing outrageously loud rap music, jarring me awake and sorely testing my Christianity~......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, new year,
Form: Free verse



Lying In Wait
...Ice on the fence wire … insult to injury The barb when it’s deadly pointed and sharp A night rain has frozen and hidden the danger Awaiting intruders —that come in the dark (Dreamsleep: Nov......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deep Darkness
...through cloudless starry nights her deep darkness hidden by the brightness of her beauty eyes shimmer like sapphires like a beautiful Siamese cat lying in wait......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, beauty, dark,
Form: Free verse
The Calling
...The winged winds are whistling Reaching up t'wards highest reaches Opening doors and slamming them shut just as eagerly Lying in wait, to snap at the heels of antiquity The winds know the world b......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Veiled Truths
...Eyes lying in wait, anticipation, I shall not leave this spot. Scratch the face, looked over crowding faces, Oblivious to my thoughts... infinitely said. No blessing shall take place, not today,......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, absence, dark, desire, gothic,
Form: Free verse



The Love of a Burdened Soul
...When pain mixes with pleasure therein lies a river, Moving water that carries the emotion of memories faded, Lost in time Buried within mind Lying in wait to remind how love may strip you limb by......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, break up, deep, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aliens of the Sixties
...back in my day we kids were terrified of the green aliens giant yellow eyes, long-reaching tentacles and pinching ways. they sneaked up into our beds and curled around us in our sleep. lying in wa......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Peccadilloes
...At the edges of everyone’s being Are those perfect little surprises, Lying in wait to be discovered By unsuspecting enterprises. Perfectly delightful peccadilloes Sometimes wearing odd d......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, friendship,
Form: Light Verse
Tears In a Seed
...Tunnel my vision in lieu of a breath Beginning the end; awaiting a death Gasping at pieces of lost memories Debating my secrets; those dearest to me Desperately searching for cracks in the seam......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, beauty, death, death of
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Daisy Mae
...Daisy Mae is walking by the scented jade meadow, of warm butterscotch days and mulberry sundown, And in the green trees, lingers a murder of crows, Lying in wait for raven night, when luster aboun......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, beauty, bird, color, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Tourette Syndrome - the Fruits
...No where is where it is – can't be found, so there No where is where it goes just sits and waits for your despair Scratching your inner most private thoughts, with words of hunger and sadistic reto......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, anxiety, conflict, cry, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Easy Chair
...Armchair ambassadors Lying in wait Have all the criteria For the perfect state – That Garden of Eden That Nirvana afar History just slaps them So they raise up the bar It’s so easy to sol......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, peace, philosophy, religion, war,
Form: Political Verse
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...I Neo Soviet sleeper cells lying in wait Or just crossing the border at varied places Troop checkpoints or a forest path Or by HALO jump from a plane Doing their job changing the landscape Not ......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, conflict, violence, war,
Form: Free verse
De Vindiciis
...ON REVENGE Revenge is too often rarefied as the idol of man's veneration. It is also viewed as unrighteous of earnest thought. Having recovered from slander By my adversary, my enemies and ......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Is Winter
...white fluff on branches imitates coldness of the wind bridge is slick, icy, treacherous, lying in wait. one lone lamplight tries to add warmth, to no avail. This is winter. ......Read the rest...
Categories: lying in wait, winter,
Form: Haibun

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