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Tick Off Poems - Poems about Tick Off

growing gills
...After "Being a Person" by William Stafford “suddenly this dream you are having matches everyone’s dream, and the result is the world” the synchronicity, perfect beating like a heart in a box ......

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Categories: tick off, 12th grade, creation, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Getting old and grey
... It seems that I am getting old and grey, my body's also slowing down its pace. But, I've still much to do, and much to say. It seems to me that life is like a race, It starts off fast with yo......

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Categories: tick off, age, old,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Time My Funny Friend
..."Time... Always here but never here." By Poet Time my funny friend, I cannot see you or feel you. Yet time you are always with me, from morning until night. The clocks tick off......

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Categories: tick off, fun, giggle, humor, time,
Form: Free verse
New year new you
... As we sit in anticipation watching the clock countdown Our minds racing filled with thoughts of renaissance The talk turns slowly to the making of vows And we think about sleep and the years re......

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Categories: tick off, celebration,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Like So Much Dust
...Death is an experience life has prepared me for ~ by poet. As the years accumulate.... like so much dust; time makes its presence known ~ wrinkled skin, hair loss, and a......

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Categories: tick off, anxiety, birth, change, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dark Side of a Great Love
...Wordsworth wrote, in 'Splendor in the Grass,' about the glory that can be found in the flower. He alluded to a love that had long since passed, like clock hands tick off each second an......

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Categories: tick off, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Gallon of Coffee
...The hours tick off I know every one Familiar their chimes until the day dawns... Crawl out of bed in the morning though not 'good as new' A gallon of coffee ~ may ......

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Categories: tick off, drink, morning, night, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Down, Fall
... like heavy snow 'pon cedar boughs those shadows, long through winter my conscience weighs the thens and nows yet morrows - naught a splinter ... where hangs the hope......

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Categories: tick off, autumn, death, life, lost
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Room
...There is a room in my mind I keep sealed. It has no windows and the only light is a small red lamp that gives off a tense aura. I have seen the same red glow in films bathing the inside of ......

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Categories: tick off, anxiety, film, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Basket Case
...I was a private detective, and I was deemed one of the best, As the colorful tulip fields, are forever attracting guests. My skills seemed often in demand, and indeed kept me moving, As gold day......

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Categories: tick off, career, fantasy, friend, mystery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Time
...Time Like a shimmery satin Ribbon blowing in the wind Time slips and twists, Its meaning constantly shifting. How much time is there? Do we have time? How long? Can space be time? Is there ......

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Categories: tick off, introspection, perspective, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wilderness, Lost
...I hike as I've hiked a thousand times gone But curved like a serpent, the path that I'm on The scrunching of steps in the snow as I walk Tick off precious seconds of time......

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Categories: tick off, adventure, lost, snow, storm,
Form: Couplet
The Surfer
...Gasping he sucked in deep To breathe after made his survival complete The wave rolled on and left him there Riding the waves made it devil may care The sun warmed him lying on his board Anothe......

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Categories: tick off, beach,
Form: Ballad
And Then
...And then .. Poem Lionel Derbyshire And then.. The ribbon and the cuff link Escort the gent.. That annoy Man about a woman On the long wait Of her dress up But then.. The afterward will ......

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Categories: tick off, beauty, cinderella, confidence, image,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Ultimate Holiday
...The queue was long, fifty or so, Spacesuits donned, ready to go. With wife and son, of ten years old We await our journey to unfold. Earths orbit was good, the moon even better, But Mars signi......

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Categories: tick off, space, travel,
Form: Rhyme

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