Time in this world is going so fast
The different clocks do exist
From the past to the future
Eternal life Everlast
Different times all over the world
Everlasting eternal life in Heaven
Time, Noone knows the hour when Jesus shall come
Noone knows when JESUS returns
In Jesus Christ Name.
The time.
Why Did You Leave?
Where are you now? I have no chance to find you
I am sorry, you invited me, but I was too lazy to buy a ticket
You are missing from Facebook. I can not find you
A few years ago, on Messenger chat, you said, Come
Come and visit me. I wanted to meet you now. Missing you
I can’t find you. I was looking for you. A mutual friend of ours
Your relative said the truth in Messenger. Three years ago
You passed away. I don’t understand this information either.
I believe that you are here, I feel you are still here, always here
You were so young. forty-nine. No distance, you live in my heart
Sorry, dear lady. We will meet. This is sure. Tears. We will meet
Just wait, wait for me, please. We will meet after my passing away
I keep your memory
In my heart
Always
Every
Time
Time
the unrivaled
arbiter
— of right and wrong
(Dreamsleep: September, 2025)
my friend Susan has arrived at the restaurant early
way too early, Susan
way way way early
There goes my poem-writing-time
I put my notebook away
and fix my face into a crooked smile
hoping my “hello, glad to see you”
sounds sincere.
Time singing sweet verse,
Toms and Dicks came to know me,
When turning adverse,
I knew how worse world can be,
Wheel of time sure turns iffy.
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Tanka (Senryu + Couplet) |22.09.2025| time, world
May we be blessed
to enjoy every moment as into each day we climb…
the same way a child enjoys a garden…
one flower at a time.
The world's a dirty mess
we're ready for some much awaited intervention
~ settings more than gentle cycle
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Yet
Not yet.
Yet time draws near.
And yet, there is no fear.
Yet still, I wonder what comes next.
Yet now...
“WHAT YOU WILL” Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand
9/22/2025
(“Nonbinary”, 2023, original encaustic)
On the timeline of Life
Past, present and future
All interpenetrate
Back and forth, forth and back
Constantly adjusting and upgrading
Experience with experience
In a loop
Möbius could clearly see.
(9/22/25)
Mirror,
You betray me with your cruel precision.
You hold my face hostage in your glass prison,
shattering me into reflections that no longer recognize themselves.
I have begged you for honesty,
yet you pour hallucinations across my skin—
a thousand mouths whispering,
a thousand eyes unblinking.
Once, I thought you were truth.
Now I know you are only a stage,
where light rehearses the trick of permanence.
When you break,
I will gather your shards and drink them like bitter wine.
Night carried him to me;
longing to stay near
a little while more,
to walk with him,
to feel him within reach.
But the dream ended.
Morning came
and I woke alone.
He has his own life.
People who need him,
laughter and love around him.
I walk alone,
rooms empty, nights quiet,
my heart missing him.
I keep that dream with me…
his hand close to mine,
our hearts threading together
for the smallest of moments.
If the dream must end,
let it end with him close,
two shadows side by side,
a love that lived
though only for a whisper of hours.
Unsavory characters lewdly hang about
nowhere I want to spend my time
~ staying home’s looking mighty fine
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
enjoying coffee and a slice of cake
Time, time, time, time,
Sometimes I don't know how to make use of it
Time, time, time, time,
Sometimes I am worn out
You seem immune to worry or concern,
you haven’t a care in the world.
Perhaps you think you’ll somehow live forever
defying laws that have ruled time itself.
Disturbs me to see time wasted away.
Are we possibly stuck at an impasse ~
tangible reality juxtaposing mundane absurdity?
You close your eyes the world stops,
how are you so carefree?
Perhaps you cater to the ludicrous delusion
that by ignoring time you’ll outrun it.
Pains me to see time wasted away.
I’m beyond comprehending such nonchalance,
time is irrefutably a most valuable commodity.
Moments elapsed are irreversibly gone ~
their squandering an unforgivable crime.
Kills me to see time wasted away.
Lineku: 3 stanzas of 5-7-5 lines, each line has 5 or 7 words
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