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Best Living On Borrowed Time Poems

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Living On Borrowed Time
Got the news today, from the doctor, my love
It's much worse than you or I could ever dream of
Never thought that I could be leaving,...

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Categories: living on borrowed time, best friend, courage, goodbye,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Last Leaf
The last leaf
Clinging to hopes of times past
Summers warm breezes
Humid days and cool nights
Summer time recollections
Rain or shine
The last leaf
Living on borrowed time

The tree is...

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Categories: living on borrowed time, autumn, beauty, nature,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Unmerited Favor
My name is Miriam, the prophetess
I have spent my whole lifetime in slavery 
Moses my brother was saved from the river 
and grew up in...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: living on borrowed time, bible, god,
Form: Lyric
Flying On Forever
Flying on forever


I’m flying on the edge forever,
Searching for a brighter future.
I can see the picture of an angel inside my mind
And now I have...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: living on borrowed time, age, angel, flying, future,
Form: I do not know?
This Heart of Mine
You know I hate to love you baby

You're only playin with my heart.

So many dreams you've shattered

So many lives you've torn apart.


If only I could...

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Categories: living on borrowed time, love, passion, people, heart,
Form: Quatrain



Barrowed Time
Many will claim  to be your friend .
Speak greatly about when your around.
Tell your the best just to get what they need.

And you in...

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Categories: living on borrowed time, introspection, life
Form: I do not know?
I Have a Cold
According to Doctor Google, I am actually dying.
With the symptoms I have, surely it can't be lying.
I'm living on borrowed time, I really should be...

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Categories: living on borrowed time, health, light, sick, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Snowman
note: St. Jude is the patron saint of hopeless causes

Didja ever feel like a summer snowman?
Out of luck, living on borrowed time,
constructed from leftovers sentimentally...

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Categories: living on borrowed time, humorous, memorial, snow, summer,
Form: Verse
Find the Cost of Freedom
Find The Cost Of Freedom

we are living on borrowed time
 can you hear the path calling from Armegeddon's side
 look to the native Indian my...

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Categories: living on borrowed time, art, autumn, baseball, beauty,
Form: Free verse
I Am One of Many
I am one of Many
                    ...

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Categories: living on borrowed time, conflict, confusion, life, loneliness,
Form: I do not know?
Our Final Conversation
I arrived at my dad's flat
to be greeted by my auntie
who was in a state of shock
she had found my dad
sitting on his bed staring...

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Categories: living on borrowed time, appreciation, cancer, dad, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Welcome To My Nightmare
I hear my name being called in the night
Stephan, Stephan, Stephan
I wake in a sweat, knowing I belong here
Dead bodies trample upon me
As I begin...

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Categories: living on borrowed time, crazy, fantasy, muse, poets,
Form: Light Verse
My Obsession With Time
Your sands sieve through my fingers
The luxury is mine
You watch me around the clock
A perfect circle
Your all seeing eye.
I exist in your omnipresence
Hypnotised by your...

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Categories: living on borrowed time, time,
Form: Free verse
Live.Love.Dream
this is really just some of my beliefs more than anything else. i hope you find it as an 
inspirational tool and that it helps...

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Categories: living on borrowed time, faith, hope, inspirationalheart, time,
Form: Lyric
Fact Or Fiction
Many people believe that we are living on borrowed time
And we really should not be alive today according to the mayam
But this is the result...

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Categories: living on borrowed time, confusion, creation,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs