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Premium Member A Thief Called Time
A THIEF CALLED TIME

“Time is the thief you cannot banish”
Phyllis McGinley writer 1905-1978

All that live upon this earth
dwell on borrowed time,
for the human race every
single day that passes by
is a payment off an unsecured
loan, that gifted at birth.
While time can be a wondrous friend
beware when...

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Categories: mcginley, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sands of Time
"Time is the thief you cannot banish."

                                   Phyllis McGinley, Writer, ...

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Categories: mcginley, life,
Form: Tetractys
Premium Member All Things Will Pass
" Time is the thief you can not banish "
Phyllis McGinley, writer 1905-1978


In the silence found in a burning sunset, I count the years
which have passed filled with wondrous wonders
that endlessly reveal themselves
like trembling birds hidden in the gray ashes
of my mind's burnt fires from...

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Categories: mcginley, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Time, My Thief
 "Time is the thief you cannot banish."

                                   Phyllis McGinley, Writer,...

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Categories: mcginley, death, future, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Time
 "Time is the thief you cannot banish."
                                  ~ Phyllis McGinley, Writer,...

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Categories: mcginley, age, faith, god, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hope Is the Thing With Feathers
(A Cento Poem) Title from Emily Dickinson

When swords were bright and steeds were prancing          	 Miniver Cheevy
and the fire-wood glowed knife-edge         			 Hart Crane
too burning and too quick...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mcginley, adventure,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member - Ticking Away -
"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
                           Phyllis McGinley, Writer,  1905 - 1978


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Categories: mcginley, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Greatest Thief
"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
                         Phyllis McGinley, Writer, 1905 - 1978


A most curious thing is time.
While you are enjoying...

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Categories: mcginley, time,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Thief In the Night
“Time is the thief you cannot banish.”

Phyllis McGinley,
Writer, 1905-1978

When I was a child I longed to be older
so I could be done with childish things
Why Time, did you move so slowly?
Then before I knew it, 
you stole my childhood from me.

I never realized I was...

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Categories: mcginley, allusion, angst, art, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time Will Tell
"Time is the thief you cannot banish."

                                   Phyllis McGinley, Writer, ...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mcginley, history, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time Is a Thief
"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
         Phyllis McGinley, Writer, 1905 - 1978

Oh, thief of life- your robber name is Time;

you never blink or take a simple pause.

Through Spring and Summer, Fall, and Wintertime,

this endless movement has...

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Categories: mcginley, life, time, voyage,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Testimony of Time
"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
                                   Phyllis McGinley, Writer, ...

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Categories: mcginley, character, christian, faith, god,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Time Passages
"Time is the thief you cannot banish."

                                   Phyllis McGinley, Writer, ...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mcginley, time,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member When Time Runs Out
"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
                                   Phyllis McGinley, Writer, ...

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Categories: mcginley, cancer, death, wedding,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Time, Friend Or Foe
"Time is the thief you cannot banish."                                      ...

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Categories: mcginley, life, time,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things