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Time Poems | Examples of Time Poetry

Time Poems - Examples of all types of time poetry to share and read. This list of time poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of time poetry. This list of works about time is an excellent resource for examples on how to write time poems.
Premium Member nothingness
mass austerity within singularity there's no clarity flickers in darkness motion overcomes starkness throws off death's harness gravity freeing nothingness begets being one lost in fleeing the movement divides that which expansion decides existence abides spawns evolution universal solution until conclusion all lost in own space seeking to fill everyplace in outward...Read the rest...
Categories: time, change, creation, death, life,
Form: Haiku



When silence speaks
When you’re down and out but you got an image to uphold, but you feel you never fit your mould. You give your best impression, but then people call you depression. It feels like suffocation,...Read the rest...
Categories: time, dream, faith, hope, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time Vanishes
Time vanishes grandma said Where does it go? Queried her grandson Totally unsure, but it is gone quickly Ticking away, tick, tick, tick I tried to hold on to a minute once But it could not be done. So I thought...Read the rest...
Categories: time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Only Slade's Brain
Tim was the new judge in Deadwood Flat Not really qualified, just a rancher at that He first case was of the outlaw, Horace Slade Caught red handed in a cattle raid The jury took ten minutes to recommend...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, time, western,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member FAR
Invisible opportunity stairs Flight fate fashioned Masked mental wares. Past existential roots Accrue manipulative motif Extant present imputes. Futuristic intents allure Remote eternal sanguinity Time track obscure. ...Read the rest...
Categories: desire, time,
Form: Other



Premium Member The Memory Speaks
The Memory Speaks I leave… But…I come back — again. Again I’ll return through time’s opening doors, …Fleeting through peripheral halls — their floors — so well cleaned ...Read the rest...
Categories: time, imagery, life, memory, remember,
Form: Imagism
Little brothers warmth
When I was locked behind the bathroom door, since I didn't wanted to face what I was made for, you kept waiting behind even more, which made me unsure. Protecting I should you in this life,...Read the rest...
Categories: time,
Form: Double Dactyl
Premium Member Time Change
I really wish that we could stop changing the clocks twice a year Most people I believe agree with me , but the governments seem stuck in the sand I fear Data shows a lot of people...Read the rest...
Categories: life, time,
Form: Rhyme
GOLD
GOLD I'm Trying To Figure Out How: >>> Perspective >>> >> Everything. >>> I MEAN, IT'S ALL BEAUTIFUL! *** IF *** You Look *** At it *** Right. But...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, fear, life, time,
Form: Free verse
April 6 Beverage, libation, liquid, Daily Ritual Drinks Drink
April 6—Beverage, libation, liquid… Daily Ritual Drinks Drink in the morning I drink a cup of snarling hot coffee while watching the news. in the afternoon I shift to tea either earl gray or herbal tea. a day without Earl Gray is not a good...Read the rest...
Categories: drink, time,
Form: Ode
Saturday Noon
Saturday noon under the sun Hot and cold, not so fun Braving wind and scorching heat Standing long is not a treat But I must, I got no choice Even if it wrecks my poise...Read the rest...
Categories: time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Circus Vision
Creepy patience, eerie desires following the dreamlike honeycomb, consistent unawareness, wax in tatters, exhaling fortune-tellers, spooky scenario, come in harlequin mischievous, that is not time, that is your life; brave, remain unhinged, so easy to say until a certain...Read the rest...
Categories: time, dark, horror, magic, mystery,
Form: Free verse
In Godspeed
In Godspeed A caterpillar will hibernate Then she flutters and learns her fate When she wakes up from her slumber. Miles away the waves see the shore To reach the sand, they want nothing more So your spirit can find some...Read the rest...
Categories: time, birth, butterfly, god, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member WALTZING WITH TIME
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the grand ballroom of existence, we sway to time's gentle cadence, each step a moment, a fleeting chance, ...Read the rest...
Categories: time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member questioning life
finding life's essence with nature's acquiescence and stoic presence not all agreeing what constitutes revealing nature of being stray quarks rearrange universe generates change most simple, some strange metamorphosis in broader analysis cosmic calculus more space demanding gravity notwithstanding outward expanding soon how becomes why upon earth and in the sky all...Read the rest...
Categories: time, creation, death, life, nature,
Form: Haiku

Specific Types of Time Poems

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