Get Your Premium Membership

Time Afternoon Poems

These Time Afternoon poems are examples of Afternoon poems about Time. These are the best examples of Afternoon Time poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Black Umbrella Afternoon

Scary people are everywhere
weaving through backbones of rain-soaked roads
taillight burning A holes in my balding white walls.
Scary people in endless grocery store lines
carts filled with
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, life,



Premium Member On a friday afternoon

in my sight's a glimpse
of a young student
her life just beginning
under a hopeful sun

how i envy her serenity
i rejoice in the moment
the beauty of it
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, appreciation, peace, student, sun,

Premium Member Tea time

a generous bouquet
of sumptuous peonies
if you please
gracing the parlour
in all its splendour

it’s tea time
we’ve brought out 
the lace cloths
the best china
and warm scones
for our dear
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, appreciation, flower,

Premium Member Afternoon Tea with a Friend Who Mistook Me for a Vanity Mirror

I do desire we may be better strangers.
— As You Like It, Act 3 Scene 2, Line 254; Orlando to Jacques

She called it venting; 
I
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, absence, abuse, art, conflict,

Afternoon In Life

Looking at the clouds turning to pale
In this late afternoon film
My mind wander like a lonely kite 
Floating soaring to the wind
I sit here in
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, hope, introspection, life, time,



Premium Member A November afternoon

A November afternoon

It will be a memory, an image of life, just a capture of the living life
This afternoon the only one, the life of
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, life, november,

Premium Member Truth be told

mid afternoon
the in-between time

it's quiet and i can think
i can write or i can read
i can indulge in silence
bathe in soft background music
revel in the
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, freedom, silence,

Premium Member The Gewgaw

I sit upon a moment’s tree
  with a gewgaw in my hand
and pluck its reed rhythmically
  to ride the distant land

the journ to
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, dedication, introspection, journey, life,

Premium Member Cold Case: A Missing Hour of Afternoon

I step out from a second-story window,
float along roads of slow-churning lullabies,
raptured in response to ice cream truck’s bellow.
A clear case of cold sugar—wide gumball
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, extended metaphor, memory, nostalgia,

Revenge Kisses and Afternoon Shams

Have I failed you as a man?
Our only communication was what washed up on shore 
But there's so much space between the ocean floor and
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, emotions, extended metaphor, fear,

Autumn Afternoon

When the wind blows
American flag flutters
fallen leaves sing
Sunlight becomes waves,
the sound of a car engine shakes

Time is fast
The temperature is also
the highest (good) temperature

again,
Let Autumn
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, love,

Friday Afternoon

A busy Friday afternoon 

Exploding plane, but not an exploding cigar, as days of fun have long since gone.
The Byzantine Empire never left Russia, either
...
Read More
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afternoon, age, anti bullying, child,

Afternoon Dates

There is something to be afraid of about afternoon dates.
They take you to secret meetings and blind dates.
Random strangers giving forgettable kisses;
But nothing is built
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, love, love hurts,

Premium Member More Jazz Please

My roommates Leong, Sophie, (Charles) and I were coming from a Yale sporting event. The sky looked like a dirty Swiffer-mop and the wind seemed
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, food, friendship, fun, god,

Pre-Seder Afternoon

The holiday’s at sunset
So the afternoon before
Is time for eating food
We won’t be eating anymore.

No bread or beer or pasta -
Not a bagel for a
...
Read More
Categories: afternoon, food, holiday, jewish,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things