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Best Slipped Through Your Fingers Poems

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One Demo Remaining
Wake up every morning, 
Knowing it will be the same;
Feel an endless longing, 
Inside a rage that can't be tamed.
Haunted in my thinking, 
I let...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slipped through your fingers, angst, deep, dream, muse,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Deleted Words Potd
Those words I typed long since deleted
Too much written and over heated
Getting all hazed and overhyped
Long since deleted those words I typed 

Lost and found...

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Categories: slipped through your fingers, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Gingham Prison: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
(Lights dim, a single spotlight illuminates Judy Garland, center stage. She wears a faded housecoat, her eyes holding a lifetime of stories. She speaks directly...

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Categories: slipped through your fingers, addiction, anxiety, depression, loneliness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Santas Many Helpers
Santas little helpers were busy having fun
Wrapping and labelling the presents ready for the Xmas run

The reindeer had their coats washed smelt of lavender and...

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Categories: slipped through your fingers, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Slipped Away
Time slipped through my fingers

along with his worn out sweatshirt.

Hundred sunsets followed

the celebrations of my despair .

But not tonight      ...

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Categories: slipped through your fingers, absence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Never Again
Silently, she lies there listening to sirens off in the distance, 
On the bed where they just recently enjoyed each other’s passion.
The neighborhood dogs, barking...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slipped through your fingers, angst, lost love, saddark,
Form: Free verse
Father Figure
The years have drug on
since you died.
I wish I could still remember
the sounds of your voice,
the memories of that died years ago.
You're "fill in" came...

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Categories: slipped through your fingers, dad, death, i love
Form: Free verse
The Breakup
She's quite an intellect 
A beauty skinned in fair reasoning
Clothed in fumes of rationalism 
Her eyes were made up with eyeliners of 'what's your next...

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© Arum Dusu   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slipped through your fingers, break up, confidence, encouraging,
Form: I do not know?
I Knew
There was a moment when
I knew.  
I knew when you played me 
The Proclaimers.
When you woke in terror, 
pacing and pale,
I knew.
When I fell...

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Categories: slipped through your fingers, introspection, love, wife, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yesterday's Shadows
When the sands of time
challenged its reality,
love slipped through your fingers.
And yet, memories still conjure a smile
recalling those magic moments
you stored within your heart,
as you...

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Categories: slipped through your fingers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tears Streaming Down
~ Tears streaming down ~

  
   I reached out to a star
      pulled it into my hand
...

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Categories: slipped through your fingers, lost love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Evening Poetic Musings
Poetry Musings at Sundown



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Categories: slipped through your fingers, peace, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Discombobulation
Life has become an amorphous mass,
Sans shape, sans structure.
And my mind is in total discombobulation.
I feel I am like a scrap yard.
My world has lost...

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Categories: slipped through your fingers, anxiety, change, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sea of Tears
Feelings, I thought genuine,
were merely a bunch of lies.
And the memories we've shared
only bring tears to my eyes.

You easily deceived me
as my hopes began to...

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Categories: slipped through your fingers, august, betrayal, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Sand
You slipped between my fingers 
Sifted through my hands
Swept up just like gusts of wind
Blow away the sand
You tried to ride the currents
Brave the crashing...

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Categories: slipped through your fingers, angel, death, farewell, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

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