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Short Grandfather Clock Poems

Short Grandfather Clock Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Grandfather Clock by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Grandfather Clock by length and keyword.


Chiming
Summertime
Grandfather clock
Slowly adjusting...

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Categories: grandfather clock, age, grandfather, i miss you, sad, sorrow,
Form: Haiku



Old Time New Time
Oak grandfather clock
Offers no words of wisdom
To the new cell phone clock...

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Categories: grandfather clock, time,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Grandfather Clock
GRANDFATHER CLOCK

christmas eve
old hall clock chimes twelve
this silent rush...

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Categories: grandfather clock, holiday,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Sunny Day Fades
lurking clouds unfurl
grandfather clock silent chimes
hush moment broken

10/4/2021...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grandfather clock, memory, rain, storm,
Form: Senryu
Ny Reel Deal
Ilene was on her morning walk
When she saw a grandfather clock
But something was wrong!
The clock had no dong!
It was a replica Tik Tok!...

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Categories: grandfather clock, nonsense, word play,
Form: Limerick



Grandfather Clock
• Such a fancy grandfather clock • Standing in the center of the manor • She bought from some guy at the dock • For a little over $30
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© Salmon Oid  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grandfather clock, 11th grade, life,
Form: Rhyme
Grandfather Clock
A grandfather clock sure is grand
Chime the time, on an antique stand  
But if late you get 
There's one sure bet
That old clock won't give you a hand!...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grandfather clock, analogy, humor,
Form: Limerick
Reading
• As the grandfather clock sings his old tune • Signifying that it's noon • I take a book from its place • And start reading at my own pace
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© Salmon Oid  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grandfather clock, 11th grade, books,
Form: Quatrain
At Nan's
At Nan's.

 The pendulum swings,
Tocks the Grandfather clock,
The needles click, the garment grows
The fire crackles with joy,
So cosy sleeps the child,
Till cups in saucers gangle,
And cake smells waft the air....

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Categories: grandfather clock, childhood, emotions, grandmother,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Night Air
above the metronomic constant dripping of a tap

and the deep and heavy ticking of an old grandfather clock

sounds seeped through a window where the night air found a gap:

a cough!

 - then silence. 

..then a key inside a lock....

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Categories: grandfather clock, mystery, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Antiques
Antiques


He is there,
Grandfather Clock like,
a throwback to another era.

His finely chiseled and polished edges,
the scrapings of life,
the worn, faded, varnish.

His value
should have increased with age,
as with the clock.

Their timeless presence
sweet mementos
of a dusted past....

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Categories: grandfather clock, age,
Form: Verse
Father Time
Tick-Tock told my Grandfather clock

I was chastised with a chime

Knock-Knock down my door with a rock

I was knocked down in my prime

I was still in shock how He broke my lock

How He stopped my time on a dime

I will always regret, I will never forget

that dreadful day I met Father Time...

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© Ron Ryan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grandfather clock, adventure, allegory, death, fantasy, father, imagination, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Time
The clock , tick , tock, tick , tock.
The grandfather clock 
Stood so perfectly on the ceramic wall.
Time frozen, silent and still
The time traveler passes by
Thoughts flying, ideas circling,
Fear manifesting, people panicking,
Babies bowling, danger awaiting
Mothers praying, children dying
The monster arising, Heavens crying....

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Categories: grandfather clock, time,
Form: Rhyme
Life Clicks Bye
A clicking
A knock
A chirp from the tall grandfather clock
A whisper
A ding
A scream from the wind unseen
Trees sway
And gates creep
Graves hold the secrets of last months dreams
A girl cries
A boy lies
Their father lay on the mothers dying bed side
A stone
A pebble
Sand of the devils time clock
An hourglass
A blink of the eye
Its all over....

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Categories: grandfather clock, death, family, life, loss
Form: I do not know?
Grandfather Clock
Tick tock tick tock goes your clock
time passes and passes my time
tick tock, tick tock goes my life time
Quarter hour you sing a song
Every quarter you sing away the time
Chimes and ding dong on the hour
My power is fading with the sun set
Sing me a lullaby all the night long
Nightmares of phantoms stealing my life
Singing a lullaby while tightening my noose....

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Categories: grandfather clock, age, angst, betrayal, blessing, fear, Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Happiest Grandfather Clock
He is the happiest clock I have ever had!
This was said by my aunt who is never sad.
I named him Bruce, after my kind stepdad.
How do you know he’s a guy asked Farmer Tad.

Because he is a grandfather clock she promptly said.
His moon face is pretty, his wood is burned red.
He has copper hands made out of the best of lead.
I keep him in my room, right beside my bed....

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Categories: grandfather clock, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Birth of Sight
Just a boy but now he has turned a man
Only just able to see the things adults can
Feels like he is dangling like a grandfather clock
Awaiting his mother to become once again his rock
His soul as of pieces and thrives for some love
Every night the moon appears as he peers up above
Wishing things would change and be as before
But now he is an adult the child blind eyes no more...

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Categories: grandfather clock, family
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Youre Secret Is Safe
You’re Secret is Safe Written: by Tom Wright February 2015 None know the secrets of our Grandfather clock It stands mostly quiet, in its niche, In our great room; As if camouflaged, it observes all goings on, While eavesdropping on every conversation; It never betrays any secrets, and most times, Won’t give you the time of day, And be truthful about it.
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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grandfather clock, funny, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Memories
I've grown old with grace, but a memory of walking side by side holding each other's hand nourishing closeness and intimacy sparks.
   His grandfather clock chimes its time, breaking the silence of my nourishing blissful memories, teasing my mournful mind.


memories echo
brings back you wrapped in my arms
never felt so lost

6/27/2020


A Memory Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grandfather clock, lost, love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member ode to wonky grandfather clock
Wonky grandfather clock you are so much fun to see
Loving it that my father created you just for me.
Your curvy sides make me smile, at least once a day.
Your chimes and bells love to whistle and clink my way.

No one else has such a clock I am pretty sure.
You make me happy, your intentions are pure.
I keep waiting for mice to run up onto you dear clock.
In my mind hearing “hickory dickory dock”....

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Categories: grandfather clock, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form: Rhyme
Lonely learning
When makeshift can be broken
who can fix it ?
I have the words to say Im lonely
like a grandfather clock without the chime
Ive swallowed my own silverspoon
I may join the Salvation Army
if you dont believe in me soon
Something on the lines the good die young
Life is like crying
yet its more like reading a book
and finally reaching the end
you turn the pages and start again
Can we honestly say weve learned ?
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Categories: grandfather clock, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
I Miss You
I miss you in every nook and corner of my heart
And it hits like a dart
I miss you every second that the grandfather clock ticks
I miss you in every single breath I take in
I miss you to the moon and back

Now I know, how much rain longs to kiss its earth
How eager waves are to caress its shore
How the full moon years to adorn its sky
For it’s incomplete without the other
And I am incomplete without you

-Puvi-...

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Categories: grandfather clock, love, missing, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grandfather's Clock
Grandfather Clock

     When I was young, not four foot tall,
     My Grandpa’s clock I remember well	
     Stood and chimed, alone in the hall
     When I was young, not four foot tall.	
     Taller than I, standing by the wall.
     Older than he? I could not tell
     When I was young, not four foot tall.
     My Grandpa’s clock - I remember well!

     05/17/2021

    Entered into 'Triolet' contest
    by Kim Merryman....

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Categories: grandfather clock, grandfather,
Form: Triolet
Reviled and Revered
When hunger becomes 
a little god. You start waiting 
for a miracle to happen. 
Like a grandfather clock, you 
had stopped moving. Time 
becomes a scoop from your ancestor’s 
skull. You start digging 
the floor for broken pins, 
holding the secret prayers. 
You watch yourself now 
buried in words, picking up 
some flowers with numb 
hands, waiting for the ants 
to come, to open the 
curved in, corona of narcissus.


Satish Verma...

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Categories: grandfather clock, art,
Form: ABC
The Grand Father Clock
The grandfather clock stood silent
it had stood the test of time defiant
seen babys born and many dawns
but now just stands silent

the little lad shouts his dad
my grandfathers clocks gone silent
some keys fit hearts and other clocks
and this ones  spring needs winding

a few turns later the spring is sprung
and grandfathers clock strikes eleven
dad looks outside sees natures also come alive
and says son  look the spring as sprung outside....

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Categories: grandfather clock, nature,
Form: Free verse

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