Best Killing Time Poems

what are you
a butcher
an assassin
are you kidding me

you nonchalantly
say you’re
just killing time

do you not see
it’s criminal
you’ll never come across
anything more valuable
than the precious
gift of time



AP: 2nd place 2020

Posted on January 23, 2019...

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HOG KILLING TIME 
 There's a chill in the air
 And holidays are near,
 Thanksgiving's just 'round the bend;
 There's a feeling amongst country folks 
 That's absolute prime,
 Everyone senses it's hog killing time.
 Oh what a spectacle!
 Oh what a show!
 You'll find...

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Hands tick in motion but I hear naught         
of the onslaught of killing time depicted. 
Minutes run past me in tarred darkness
as the visions in my brain are obscured.

Clocks eat away moments of my life.
I admit I'm...

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Waiting in queue:
Platos, Socrates, Bernard Shaws -
Ah! These tax returns...

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Friday rolls around 
I am too excited 
My pennies are saved 
My outfit’s sorted 
Bath and make up, done 
Ready for a big night out 

One problem 
It’s the afternoon 
Tick tock, 
Tick tock 
Hurry the fek up Mr. Clock 
You really, truly hate me...

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And it’s Sunday all over again, 
In my word and in your beauty.
Your silence, so fragile,
Penetrable and deep.
It’s like being trapped 
In a museum.
Monday, I feel my shoulders
Heavy as every instant
You become more bashful.
Tuesday turns to Thursday,
While I watch your 
Obsessive, irritated brow.  
I...

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Looking out my office window

The sun is shinning
The sky is blue
Forgive me if I daydream
A little over you

My work piles up
Time slips by
Nothing gets done
I've lost my drive

Why worry about tomorrow
When I have today
I'll let my future self
Regret this lazy day

The clock strikes five
I was...

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Spending time under an oak tree
Reading 'Falling Down'
On a summer afternoon
Just killing time

Eating ice cream from Scoops ice cream shop
And laughing with a friend
About the boys from class
Just killing time

Eating dinner with my family
Having fun and laughing
Telling jokes and all
Just killing time

But now

That oak tree...

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I'M KILLING TIME

Time is dead
I killed it
Then threw it to the wind
I put off 'till tomorrow
Just when I should begin

Somewhere safe in yesterday
My dreams got packed away
By waiting for tomorrow
I lost track of today

Time is dead
I killed it
But in the end I see
Instead of my...

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Patrick Deneen follows Tocqueville
speaking of risks to Western liberal democratic experiments,
great personal enlightenment adventures
seldom calm within a federating kettle
of competing selected fish,
and usually not cooperatively resilient
for health optimization
of local community peaceful resonant wealth.

In Tocqueville's time and place,
liberal democracy evolved from feudal win/lose pre-industrial aristocracy
overpowering non-elite...

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~~ Coffee in hand mitten slippers, ~~
~ too and fro, oh the ebb and...

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Suspense kills
I would kill again 
grasping at fate, where it lies
on my conscience.

What's left of this you have a taste for now,
pulling together,
moving on to what you left behind,

Stripping time

I time travel until I belong in my skin,
no longer in limbo watching the clock,
your lies...

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'Killing" time while homebound until...,
a cure gets distilled and/ or found
for pandemic, thus... I expound.

(Yupper - courtesy coronavirus CORVID-19),
how ja guess my good smear it in friend?! -
within Perkiomen Valley, Pennsylvania
toyed with thought to withhold or send
hmm... perhaps superstitious end
synonym with ominous trend,
methinks hoop fully...

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TIC TOC-TIC TOC-TIC-TOC  TIME STANDS STILL FOR NO ONE---

Tic-toc-tic-toc, tic-toc-tic-toc
It could never be your will;
Time stands still for no one;
Premise to the task;
Tic-toc-tic-toc, tic-toc-tic-toc
Whether smooth or rough
You may kill time;
But one day time gonna kill you;
The thrill is here;
But one day the thrill be...

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On a quest for peace of mind
Searching for light, truth and existence
Beyond gravity, space and time
Nothing is guaranteed.

On a quest for love 
Searching for trust, friendship and honesty
Beyond human hearts, mind and soul
Nothing is guaranteed.

On a quest for greatness
Searching for power, control and mastery
In solitude...

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