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Best Time Is Of The Essence Poems

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Premium Member Time Is of the Essence
With each breath I take
I blow away seeds of time
Dandelion clocks
Natural chronometers
Time ticks by until we die



Checked with how many syllables 5,7,5,7,7
08~12~15...

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Categories: time is of the essence, nature, time,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Time Is of the Essence
Don’t wait
Love
Lord...

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Categories: time is of the essence, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Period of Adjustment
in the frail blue dusk, 
that comes as prelude to dark,
there's a fragile lapse,
one period so oblique,
it's called neither night or day.

this brief moment comes
as...

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Categories: time is of the essence, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Tanka
On the Love For God
What I'm about to write will make no sense to those who have a materialistic worldview: that only matter exists, no mind, no soul, no...

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Categories: time is of the essence, allusion, appreciation, atheist, god,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Oh, Wonderful Life
Oh, wonderful life

minutes-hours-days-nights-weeks-months 

years, seasons, decades

the world is turning so fast

I can’t keep on top of it


Written December 2015 for 
the Time is of the...

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Categories: time is of the essence, life, time,
Form: Tanka



Innocent Times
My memory flashes back
to innocent times long since gone
those hot nights parked at lovers lane
wolfman jack playing my favorite songs.
it seems like yesterday
that Peggy Sue...

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© Kurt Kohls  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: time is of the essence, home, life, remember, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seeking Redemption Beyond the Horizon
Seeking Redemption Beyond The Horizon


          While my mind ventures to unravel the origins of human enmities
...

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Categories: time is of the essence, allegory, corruption, courage,
Form: Rhyme
The Power of a Panic Attack
The powerful palpitations pounding in my chest,
Will my heart with stand this test,
Another attack has just begun,
Abracadabra out it sprung. 

Piercing pain constricting my chest,
My...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: time is of the essence, anxiety, deep, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Thought It Was Me
I sat in the back raising and waving my hands 
I know she saw me...but she just ignored me 
Why? I asked myself...does she not...

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Categories: time is of the essence, child,
Form: Free verse
Monomaniacal Mist
Monomaniacal Mist

I am the finite of the infinite for the shadows bleed my presence
My habitual hunger is imminent and toxicant time is of the essence
Like...

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Categories: time is of the essence, death, destiny, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Time
TIME

The clock is ticking:
Tick tock, tick tock’
The deadline’s fast approaching
And I have writer’s block.
It used to be so simple
But that’s all in the past.
There’s no...

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Categories: time is of the essence, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Things Grow Legs
Things Grow Legs

Sometimes, I swear, things grow legs
Recipes, scissors, car keys in place
But when I look they move away
To floors, newspaper piles – hiding spaces.

We...

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Categories: time is of the essence, humor,
Form: Rhyme
This World
Author Dana Redricks 
January 22, 2019 

When I watch the news
and see chaotic shape 
of this world I can't help
but see the doomsday 
clock speeding...

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Categories: time is of the essence, blessing, christian, faith, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Buried Treasure
If Time were of the Essence
     we'd treasure every day

   Even in senescence 
     delinquent...

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Categories: time is of the essence, age, irony, time,
Form: Rhyme
My Romeo
They say that distance is just a number
A space between you and me 
Full of people, animals, buildings, and they
Don’t know how much I suffer!
...

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Categories: time is of the essence, desire, longing, love, missing
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs