Best Slip Away Poems
The mysterious stranger could wait no more
He grew more impatient as he paced the floor
People always pleaded for more time
But those pleas were usually denied
The man whose soul he'd come to take
Grew paler and began to shake
He heard the footsteps getting near,
The time had come; It was just as he had feared
He heard the tapping on his door,
And begged for time, just a little bit more .....
The stranger then entered the room
A sudden chill, a sense of doom
The man slipped away 'round half past eight
The Grim Reaper was not inclined to wait
He had many more people to see that day
And in the blink of an eye he slipped away
He just couldn't wait, to take their breath away ....
Slip away …
Will you slip away to the dark side,
Will you worship money and power too,
Do you see any wrong on the inside,
The moral code of you .
Do you really think you are better,
All equal under God,
Just a little deceitful to yourself,
Do you get the liars nod.
Do you see the hurt you do ,
Supporting the monied rich,
They want your last penny too,
greedy son’s wanting it.
So give your vote to the rich man,
So he can have his way,
He sent all the jobs offshore,
Cheap labor is his plan, today,
For sure I say…
Don Johnson
I let it slip away.
Regretful till this day,
I kept your love at bay
and let it slip away.
I had your undying love and true devotion,
passionate romance in arduous motion.
I was so careless with my own emotion
…I let it slip away
I pushed you away at each chance
choosing an unassuming stance.
Because of my adverse circumstance
…I let it slip away
You gave your everything for decades
yet I never acknowledged your grades
and in my pathetic childish charades
…I let it slip away
Now I’m wiser, in hopeless remorse
as my life has run its convoluted course.
Without your steadfast love in full force
…I let it slip away
"The heart was made to be broken."
Oscar Wilde, Poet
My inspiration is Glenn Hughes and his song called
Why Don't You stay from his album, From Now On.
I am thinking of you and memories haunt me. I've tried hard to forget you.
And I've heard you moved on without looking back. You have found another
to love and I've been crying every day. Oh, here's a nice picture of us that is
breaking my heart and soul. It won't go away! Don't you think of me just a
little, love? Because I think of you each moment. Because I love you still and
I'm calling you to ask won't you come back to me ?
do not stay away
come from where you are my love ...
like a bird flying
Let's just love each other, because we've been through so much, because life
is a struggle sweetheart. My heart is broken and yours is too. I'm saying I
love you, so won't you give it a chance with me. Baby, just take a step to
true love. Let's make this work please, because I am nothing without you
darling. Don't let our love slip away. Don't let our love slip away.
let us be lovers
as I am lost without you ...
fly home like a bird
Don’t let the years slip away
Written By Dean Masciarelli
September 16, 2010 (6:31pm)
Don’t let the
years slip away
From you
So that you can
enjoy
every single day
Because they
will
pass you by
Faster then you
can blink an eye
And they will
gradually
sneak up on you
Faster then you
may want them to
And then one day you
wont recognize the
person that you used to be
Because by then you
will be old and gray
And that’s just reality
Don’t let the
years slip away
From you
So that you can
enjoy
every single day
Because they
will
pass you by
Faster then you
can blink an eye
I Let It Slip Away
I let it slip away, my freedom said goodbye,
as I sat in a cell of abuse pain and neglect;
life is blasé I can’t conger up a why.
You were a tyrant and I wanted to die,
as I start to slip away like an object;
I let it slip away, my freedom said goodbye.
Couldn’t save me so I didn’t even try,
my soul feels like it has been shipwrecked;
life is blasé I can't conger up a why.
I’m floating to the unknown, can’t fly,
there’s no place in sight to intersect;
I let it slip away, my freedom said goodbye.
In the beginning, you were a nice guy,
you morphed into one void of intellect;
life is blasé I can't conger up a why.
Time stands still the twilight hour is nigh,
as I float without hope, I disconnect.
I let it slip away, my freedom said goodbye,
life is blasé I can’t conger up a why.
April 26, 2023
Contest: I Let It Slip Away
Sponsor: John Lawless
I let it slip away . . .
a beautiful beautiful day.
I’d looked out my window and seen
blue sky and grass so green.
Then back in bed I lay
as I slept the morning away.
At last I awoke but I had
my chores! I felt so bad.
Why in bed did I stay
and not go outside just to play?
By the time my chores were all done,
much dimmer was the sun.
Oh, why did I delay
enjoying this best day of May?
With joy I could have been biking
or on a trail hiking.
Wild flowers in array
I could have plucked for a bouquet.
In a cool stream I could have splashed
or through a meadow dashed.
No, it is not okay.
the glory of May to betray.
Procrastinating is my sin.
Sun could have kissed my skin.
With contriteness I say
I let a great day slip away.
May 1, 2023
N/A poem
*Happy May Day everyone! This poem is an experiment with a new rhyming form I created. It consists of couplets with alternating syllable counts of 6/8 and 8/6. The 6/8 couplets are monorhymes.
When memories slip away
when they sink into an
endless sunset
when minutes swiftly sift
through the hourglass of time…
…hold me tenderly, hold me close
before my story ends
remember the moments
we have together
dreams that time transcends.
I feel so vulnerable
so powerless and alone
my words have become elusive
emotions drain into listless puddles
my thoughts crumble from within.
Stay with me now
through this wretched storm
stay close to me
stay by my side
be the rock that I can cling to
against the shifting sands
that haunt my mind.
3/20/2023
You’ve found the one you were looking for
Never let her slip away
When true love comes knocking at your door
Never let her slip away
Tell her how you really feel
Never let her slip away
Cherish her to your dying day
Never let her slip away
You only get one chance in life
Never let it slip away
Jan Allison
13th August 2013
I let it slip away…. But can I ever do it?
One long year has passed since I last saw her,
With her smiling face and sparkling eyes.
Memories haunt me of the days we were together,
When she whispered love’s veiled message,
With haunting echoes faintly singing.
My world then opened into a dreamscape.
Together we sat by the side of a jumping cataract,
Watching the sunlight dancing through the smoky vapour
With every droplet mirroring a spectrum of shades
And dreamt of a time when we would be man n’ wife
Never knowing she would vanish out from my sky like a rainbow.
She was a candle that glowed luminous,
Emitting undeniable light of love and warmth
Who shone in my world like the light of a harvest moon,
A creeper, I thought, would twine round me as on a tree.
Now, as I see the homing bird coming to join its mate,
And listen to the notes of a nightingale from the deserted wood,
I think of her and slip into an abyss of agony and longing,
With waves of commotion swirling in my head,
And see my sky suddenly turning stygian black.
When the setting sun in its twilight glows
When the waning day’s last glorious rays enclose
I seek her in the hovering silence and seclusion of life,
And wonder if love adrift and lost in the air,
Would return once more to alight my shattered heart!
Sometimes I think I would be better off
Without those memories that impair my senses,
When a gloomy haze overshadows my world.
I can’t deal with these feelings of gloom anymore.
So, I let them slip away forever….!
_____________________
April.27.2023
~ Placed First~
I Let it Slip Away Poetry Contest
Sponsor- John Lawless
How soon the heroes daughters and sons
lost in the morning shadow run
of a distant and clouded sun;
all the dreams that survive
are mere nightmares still alive
of what we once contrived
for America and freedom cries.
Names engraved upon a wall
tombstones for the bodies laid low as they fall
and the spirits that live in history squalls;
come home dear hearts
where those left behind survive at the start
in forgotten memories that fall apart
of America and freedom to impart.
Who is left today?
Power players and football stars at play
made weathy and famous in their shadowed way
long since faded bliss
in coming home celebrations, only hers and his
of what a hero really is
of America and freedoms quiz.
Where are those heroes today
the men and women of yesterday
left behind in congressional power plays
folding over the blanket of constitutional truths
to lie and coverups of what we say to youth
in our living and our dying blues
of America and freedom views.
Quietly forgotten heroes bear the cross,
with names and the nameless loss
of the war and some hidden cause
of freedom escaping at the gates scrutinized;
pandered away for lack of compromise
exposed in the tears of innocents chastized
of America and freedom as it slowly dies.
I let it slip away, after many months with clouds of gray. Our friendship became a huge drain. you were not worth all the pain. Now all I can do is just pray.
I don't leave all at once, but slip away like ink running off old pages,
Like a song you swore you'd never forget, until you do.
It starts small—your name becomes foreign on my lips,
Your messages remain unread, not out of anger, but from a strange helplessness.
You don't ask why, maybe you don't notice, or maybe you just let me go,
And that hurts the most—not that I faded, but that you watched.
You let me dissolve into silence, to become a shadow of a thought,
To lose the weight of my name, to become an echo lost in the wind.
Tell me—did you ever truly see me, or did I disappear from the start?
A silent dance of shadows among memories, each step a whisper of goodbye,
In this labyrinth of silences and echoes, I wonder if I was ever more,
Than a blurred dream in a universe where words scatter like leaves.
We remain prisoners of our own illusion, searching for meaning in the void between us,
A void that deepens with each day that passes without us touching,
And in this silence, questions dance like stars in an endless sky,
I wonder in the quiet of the night if I was ever more than a faded dream.
I let it slip away.
With every fleeting day,
The countdown ticks,
and the woodworm picks.
I let it slip away.
We deplete into decay.
A heartbreak needs a fix.
Sticky roll pops claim extra licks.
I let it slip away.
Vowed to repay them that day.
I value how you play your tricks.
Yet, what kicks, it sticks!
I let it slip away.
Bear your wings and fly.
Can you hold a rucksack of bricks?
Rose ovens heat furnace skips.
I let it slip away.
When the boys play
City life pops, spills, and kicks.
till they're three ruby clicks.
Written: May 2nd, 2023
Slip away
Land, oh land give forth of thee
In this darkness, barren and cold,
When out of your silent desolate past
Remain the winds of fate
For somewhere once did slip away
The morning bright and clear,
Until in the depth of our own mortality
Are lost the winds of fate
Illusions haunt the early light
When sounds a daybreak’ call,
Into the breadth of a coming dawn
Or the simplicity in our fate
By m.norton
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