Short Expectant Poems

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a pregnant pause - implodes from silent count-down ticks...

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Fox sits patiently
A cunning expectant foe
Waits for his dinner...

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Predawn clouds permeate
expectant warm rains----
Dovers coo in the distance...

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The cold white skies are filled with snow.
Expectant children are down below....

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in expectant joy —
mustard seed of commonplace
or of great reward

7/10/2018...

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Blood red lips and fingernails
She was as restrained as she could be
Back arched, breathing quick, expectant....

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Mary had a little lamb
She'd cooked into a stew
She drew the blinds while in the yard
expectant ewes did too...

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Attercop
On silken thread
hangning in expectant repose
an unbral speck upon reality
Quivering lace in shadow....

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Sanguine teddy bear
Cheerfully optimsitic
Hopeful confidence
Sits on tree so expectant
for honey to come nearby...

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EXPECTANCY 

deceptive the moon
half-shadowed in cold night sky
~ expectant wolf howls

7/12/2017...

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It's time for a dose of disinfectant
Cleaning both house and home as expectant
Someone get the bleach
I plead and beseech
But not in the arm as an injectant...

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Summer babies splashing in the Junish sun 
water fountain squeals and joyous chills 
beneath the eye a verdant green, its love 
expectant mothers dote onto......

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please thread quietly
then you will hear the murmur
or maybe feel it
his heart talking to your heart
an expectant pulsation

©154728082013...

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I love the blank, bare page
unmarred by usage
untouched by erasure
thirsty as desert sand 
expectant, waiting
to pull onto itself and hold
all the words of my heart....

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Heartfelt uterus patter
expectant mother feels her babe
exuding ultimate power
sensing new life will soon
become the most enthusiastic
exciting appendage to former self...

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The sun-speckled public pool overflows with expectant faces;
Their glistening eyes look up at me with promises of safety.
Unlocking the tension in my knees is one face in particular....

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Dawn
hopeful, expectant
tantalizing, exhilarating, inviting
friends, citizens, government, politicians
inciting, embezzling, dictating
greedy, covetous
Darkness...

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Darkness is darkest before the dawn
     This time, folks say, the adage is wrong

   But when the sun peeps out from behind the clouds
     A cheer erupts from the expectant crowd...

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to sip
to savour
           and utilise:
...yet never
             ever
                 dwell
too
long...

         tomorrow
lies etheral..
          ...expectant...
..again...

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Brisk,
fast,
alert,
energetic,
strong,
wide eyed,
spirited,
expectant,
optimistic,
running,
smooth,
headlong,
into nowhere,
a pillar came,
and he crashed dead,
now and here....

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THE THIEF

When you stole my bag in Athens
The VIO bag , smart and new,
How I wish I could see your face
When you pulled that zipper--
Expectant of a laptop

Instead you find
Paper--

Scribbled stories
Poetry
And my
Torah...

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Fishy and Medusa like
moves subtle in piscean flight

Slower than darting eyes
small mammals increase your size

Shady (steak out) waiting
cold smooth incalculable expectant satiating

For Carolyn Devonshire's attack contest!!...

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Mary and Joseph
Sit proudly
Expectant parents
To the miracle
Of nature.

A brave heart
against
Persecution
Born to soar 
over adversity

In the dark days before extinction  a bird soars
A free spirit
The albatross...

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Anklecut but running;
cornchildren at break,
dust and more dust.

Flight the cutting
of a lost sanctuary,
legless with shock

at life turned upside.
Subble the blunt cut,
the wait of the expectant
loam, under the farrow....

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Perhaps, the first
Responsibility
Emerging after the euphoria
Nesting within
An expectant mother.
Taking
Additional vitamins and
Learning how

Caring for oneself
Actually makes a
Real difference in the health of
Emerging life....

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