Best Time Poems
Below are the all-time best Time poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of time poems written by PoetrySoup members
Not Enough TimeLast January, winter lost it's chill
By May the summer's sun had turned me brown
I watch the leaves late August, change at will
Time's speeding up or...
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Categories:
life, time,
Form:
Sonnet
Time
Relentless in it’s movement
like the ticking of a clock
as time keeps marching forward
for our future to unlock.
The past is but a memory
the present but a...
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Categories:
time,
Form:
Rhyme
Time MachineRide with me on my time machine to a different time and place
Return with me and let me see if I can put a smile...
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Categories:
time, nostalgiamom, me, night, candy,
Form:
Couplet
September"September, beautiful month of my birth, is nigh, but I cannot feel glad."
September, drifting in with glow of moon,
you stifle Summer’s ardor. . . and...
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Categories:
nature, sad, sun, time,
Form:
Terzanelle
Night Comes
Softly and sadly
Up on the knoll;
The vesper bell
Begins to toll.
Lock all the doors
Blow out the light;
The hour is late
Sleep comes with the night.
Close all the...
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Categories:
time,
Form:
Rhyme
The Clouds"HOLDING HIS HAND"
*The Voice*
God, can I hold your hand and follow you?
"Gods voice"
My child, it is I who will walk with you! You walked down...
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Categories:
time, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Narrative
The Old PainterThe Old Painter
sublime my paintings, memory be
lost in time, I now must see
where once the gale winds trembled chill
wrapped in blankets, remember still
a touch, a...
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Categories:
time,
Form:
Couplet
Cry of the City
We will walk then, you and I
When daylight shuts her weary eye;
Down the streets where beggars sleep
And drug crazed addicts spend their keep.
On streets that...
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Categories:
life, prayer, time, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Magic Beans
Our first awareness
falling through time
through blood-rain, pure white snow, green vegetation
...
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Categories:
time, adventure, chocolate, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Recording/Re-playing/Recording/Re-playingThe farm
and the porch light hums
the sound of another
orange dawn.
Burnt up – crisp
...
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Categories:
life, people, philosophy, time,
Form:
Free verse
Life is a Dance
Sometimes life is such a bore we run on automatic;
Then it’s time to tango for a dash of the dramatic.
Or when things are dull and...
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Categories:
life, life, life, time,
Form:
Couplet
OracleThe heron is the color
of a November morning.
Fog wets the river rocks.
Fossils faintly echo
a grey past.
I shall take one stone
home,
to look
through its waterworn hole
and...
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Categories:
nature, time,
Form:
Free verse
WOW MOMENTS
I get it now…
it’s not about
momentous events
it’s about
memorable moments
moments that
take your breath away
being in the moment
with your whole being
being at one
with the universe
wherever
that may...
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Categories:
time, appreciation, beauty, happiness, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
And so it isAnd so it is…
When the trees don’t speak, barely a whisper in the wind,
Wet petals stuck motionless to the ground as if pinned
When there is...
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Categories:
feelings, senses, sound, time,
Form:
Rhyme
HeritageThe ranch on which I hang my hat, though short on most the frills,
Is thirteen sections, give or take, of rugged trails an’ hills.
We call...
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Categories:
time, adventure, cowboy-western, education, imagination,
Form:
Quatrain
Categories:
time, life, love, nostalgia, sad,
Form:
Shape
Moonlight MadnessMOONLIGHT MADNESS
The moon falls out like a secret above the frisky clouds
Daylight and night the stars come in crowds
Like a glistening diamond, I can't stop...
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Categories:
time, adventure, art, beauty, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Your Child's EyesThe innocence lost so long ago
The undying faith we used to know
The gentle rain of a summer's skies
You can find it all in your child's...
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Categories:
children, world, time,
Form:
Couplet
Teddy Bear-My sweet little Teddy Bear...
Mommy gave 'YOU' to me
Now I never sleep alone at night
The comfort you gave, when God's sunny eyes ran out of...
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Categories:
time, abuse, boyfriend, childhood, fear,
Form:
Free verse
WindowpanesAn ancient river, centuries-old shops and restaurants steeped in a 2000-year history and
culture set the scene. The ambiance seemed divinely contrived to facilitate the...
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Categories:
time, caregiving, friendship, hope, introspection,
Form:
Quatrain
Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...
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Categories:
time, memory, missing you, passion,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Tomorrow Will Be
It’s never tomorrow. It’s always today -
at least in this moment it is, anyway!
So if you are saying out loud a big Wow,
you’re not in...
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Categories:
life, time,
Form:
Lyric
The Eternal TreeI am Alive Forever and always Essence ...
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Categories:
time, life, mother, nature, sea,
Form:
Concrete
SEX AFTER 40(WARNING SIGNS)
You are old and fragile
Claiming to be a lion when in bed
In some way, you remind me of the walking dead
Your bones make...
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Categories:
time, body, change, confusion, depression,
Form:
Free verse
The Battle
The menace of war in the chaos of life
The peril of ocean when tempests are rife;
The danger of jungle where feral beasts hide
The terror that...
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Categories:
love, woman, love, time,
Form:
Rhyme