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Watching The Clock Poems - Poems about Watching The Clock

Too Much for Just a Friend
... Maybe I was too much— too loud in a world that whispers, too present where absence feels safer, too eager where waiting kills quietly. Maybe I sent the first message because silence scared......

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Categories: watching the clock, heartbreak, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Only Thing That Looks Good in Black and White
...Nothing is simple, but we carve it clean— label it, box it, turn a question into a rule, a rule into a law, a law into a weapon, and call the wreckage order. We crave control, but sharpen o......

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Categories: watching the clock, conflict,
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: watching the clock, celebration,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Feeling Worthless
... “The worst is feeling worthless.” Quote: Donald Glover I tip the scales. Life curtails. In luminous light To suffer delight. Yielding bend. New age trend. Wanting to break. Now awake. ......

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Categories: watching the clock, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They Crashed the Server
...They crashed the server But they didn’t lose the poetry They crashed the server But they didn’t lose the poetry Parts of three days the Soup’s been down With most of us wearing a frown Troubl......

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Categories: watching the clock, appreciation, community, computer, encouraging,
Form: Lyric



The Audience
...When you speak to an audience, who are you talking to? The people in front of your screen or those trapped in your dreams? More than thirty thousand people are watching you simultaneously and the lan......

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Categories: watching the clock, anxiety, confidence, courage, culture,
Form: Free verse
Sex Ed Failures
...Watching the clock I'm wary of time, listening to words that mean nothing to me If I could do better and take useful notes, then maybe the lesson I could finally agree It's no good to be diff......

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Categories: watching the clock, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
So Blank So Open So Dormant An Inbox
...How empty can an inbox possibly be? Not unlike a door..... practically off at hinges The paint is definitely peeling More than one shutter has fallen astray. One piece at a time Have you ev......

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Categories: watching the clock, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Morning Dread
...Reflecting light burning so white breaks softly applied to gentle stop shifter is grasped and clicks into park break is released and turn off the lights ignition turned off and radi......

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Categories: watching the clock, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Low Activity Life
...Sitting. Quiet. Alone. Distractions pass through. Waiting. Nothing to do. Watching the clock. Two hours.......

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Categories: watching the clock, 10th grade, angst, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hell To Me
...Hell to me is standing six foot behind the person putting their groceries on the conveyer It is watching the clock the last ten minutes at work, wishing I could leave It is listening to the news, w......

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Categories: watching the clock, hello,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slaves To Time
...How many days are there, in our all consuming weeks Not enough, too many, perhaps we need a little tweak For people that slave hard, days don’t require a name There just continuities of time, with......

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Categories: watching the clock, how i feel, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Cure My Insomnia
...Darling, for you all night I have yearned For hours I have simply tossed and turned Watching the clock as 4 AM just ticks on by Just can't get to sleep, God only knows why I know very well at w......

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Categories: watching the clock, missing you, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Haunting Adventures of a Dirty Blonde Knight-Whacking the Kraken
...There was a knight with locks that were golden Protecting a kingdom in threat of folding King and his trusting mighty duck Caring only for the almighty buck From the north Sharks were prese......

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Categories: watching the clock, adventure, bullying, character, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thank You Covid 19
...Thanks to Covid 19, I see the world in a new, invigorating light. I can calm down during day, not just when diamond stars come out at night. I have time to savor my coffee in the morning, not merel......

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Categories: watching the clock, america,
Form: Rhyme

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