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Rocking Poems - Poems about Rocking

Rocking Poems - Examples of all types of poems about rocking 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 rocking.
Premium Member Far Rockaway
Though little Suzie was wild about horses, she was too young to ride, At just five golden years old. Like summer faded, where nature sighed. Playful Suzie longed to visit Banbury Cross, a place she had not...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, celebration, child, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Just An Empty Rocking Chair
Just an empty rocking chair, Survived by hearts left behind, Hearing the loneliness, the dread Remembering the life now mourned, By the rocker’s weeping beneficiaries. 1 ...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, grief,
Form: Verse



Rocking Away
leaves withered and grew as the old man sat, in his wooden rocking chair gently swaying, waiting for the day to come, people come to chat and sit, while he spoke of a better day to come, and the day...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, time,
Form: Free verse

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THE OLD ROCKING CHAIR
MOM AND DAD STILL HOLD HANDS AT TENDER AGE 92 WATCH THE PIT FIRE NOTHING MORE TO DO BUT SITTING IN THOSE OLD ROCKING CHAIR'S ...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, age,
Form: Rhyme
Rocking 40 like a 25 year old
My dearest husband, Happy 40th bday my love, Today I celebrate you, I celebrate your life, God surely knew I was destined to be by your side, May you always never doubt the love Peyton and I have...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, birthday,
Form: Free verse



Rocking
I’m trying to glare at people who pass by. My face isn’t actually glaring though. My face is soft and droopy. And sad and bleary. I’m rocking back and forth. I enjoy rocking and it makes me lonely. Everyone ignores me. When...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, angst, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rocking Chair of Memories
a Zen philosophy states that all form is emptiness yet it’s not as all emptiness is form but in essence not Plato maintained that its essence is in its purpose the idea of the chair preceded its existence the idea...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, analogy, memory, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Suzette Prime
Premium Member The Rocking Chair
...she was ensnared within her prized gardens There among a tempest of roses. Entangled in the mournful whispers of… Weeping willows From noon till night. Within her bustling haven, the envy of neighbors. A source of joy and delight. But her...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, devotion, fear, halloween, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gnarled
Grandmother rocks in rocking chair Her careworn hands at rest in lap Blue eyes bright she seems aware Overcome with sleep taking a nap. Beautiful embroidery lies neglected Gnarled fingers, painful, no longer agile Rainbow silk colours forgotten not selected Advancing years...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, cat, grandmother, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rocking Chair
Sitting here in this dark silent home Sometimes my mind starts to roam Time has taking it's toll With the punches I roll The toss of the dice Thinking times are nice When they really suck Your tail do you tuck On you...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rocking Robins - Ah
raucous red robins rocking, rolling, ring refrain ~ redwood ricochet 2/26/23 Contest: Alliterku Poetry Contest Sponsor: Charles Messina...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, bird, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Grandmothers Rocking Chair
I still see her in her white rocking chair. Sharp hearing and her once, sharp vision going. Rocking, dreaming of her grandchildren growing. Their toys, left abandoned, at which with love, she stares. Her heart broken from painful emptiness! Those...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, absence, children, grandmother, memory,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Oh, Christmas Tree
scraggly let's face it not quite Charlie Brown scraggly but scraggly just the same you were alive, though and that's the thing new house, new yard-- --needed you Christmas did, too. so killed two birds with one you am i really tearing up over a tree? you're...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, christmas, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Afternoon With My Aunt
You came into her house through the kitchen. The big door in from the front porch Hadn't been used for years; Furniture stood hard against it. A knock at the front door meant a stranger. Aunt Celesta makes a...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, caregiving, childhood, family, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rocking Chair
anxiety a rocking chair that vacillates and goes nowhere it’s not just you it’s more than that for it creates a nervous cat so cast your cares and hit the couch ‘cuz broken tails make cat a grouch ...Read the rest...
Categories: rocking, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

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