Best On Time Poems

Loaned to all at one’s birth, a life and time,
For some, a life time paying back every dime.

© Harry J Horsman  2012...

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When trouble arises do not fret or frown
For it is only the enemy trying to hold you down
Hardtimes are only stepping stones, trials in yous life
Depend on God, He will deliver you from strife
No one said life would be a walk in the park
There won't...

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You said it when you said goodbye
You said you'd anchor near
You said I'd feel you in the wind but all I feel is air 

I listened for the whispers, too
I listened close to hear
I listened and I looked but all the signs you sent weren't...

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Emit no evil, hearken!
Men of the underworld
Inflict pain, invite the wrath
Things fall apart, the doom's day looms

Nemesis swings into action
Oust every explosion otherwise...

Emit no evil, hearken!
Vampires of the universe
In a short while, gone the time
Let go of evils, offspring of the devil

Live for humanity
In it...

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Is time a spiral stairway that we climb
Whose unendingness we seek to borrow
To the last wrought syllable of our rhyme
Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow -
The fusion of the future with the past
In dizzying dimensions ever new
Which hurl us headlong in a void so vast
That what we...

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Life’s Buses Never Run on Time


Life’s buses never run on time
so I wait, in stoic supplication,
for a god who has no schedule.
Coincidence decides the crossing
of our paths, spontaneous reunion
of faith and practicality disappearing
in the dirt of city streets, nameless
sojourners jostling for “personal”
space, waiting to be...

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Life sounds like a clock
ticking away its brief years:
what's your mark on time?...

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Time really flies
It was a seed in that pic
Full grown tree today!...

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Life is music that drifts in open spaces
        sometimes a brash crescendo 
        that brims with the fullness of now
when stories break from narrow, rigid scripts
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She was never on time
bought her a watch
she loses things too





Written July 17, 2018
Entered Mick Talbot's  Senryu Poetry Contest...

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As if I've been asleep, caught in a dream
My life took a leap, oh how far it may seem
The mountain was steep, still I reached the suns beam

Finally, I Awoke...

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Wake up, wake up! Appears the sunshine
It’s a new day, read the signs
Free your mind from yesterday’s soliloquy
Reap all positivity for your consciousness to see.

It may seem oddly lonely
Like a soul detached to a person’s body
But it is all in my sanity
I demand to free...

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Better to see anything in dreams.
Universal beauty holds out it seems.
Transformation into beauty to behold.
Tragedy of real life ever so cold.
Exemplifies fantasy in ones mind.
Real life sometimes is so unkind.
Flying in a dream; sends a passion.
Learning the truth seems old fashion.
Yet truth holds the key...

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It was a long lonely night at the lumber mill
Just listening to a whippoorwill 
In the dark beside a logging road.
I’ve got fifteen cars of timber on my load.
The yard stinks of bleeding sap and cut pine.
Roll on, roll on down the line.

I’ll be on...

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Thinking will not prolong the inevitable. 
Hoping for yesterday will not stop tomorrow.
Incompetence only takes you so far.
Shooting for the stars is our destination.

Initially, we must all create our paths.
Slowly, may our fate take its shape.

In time, memories shall begin to fade.
Tapping in rhythm with...

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