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Best Time Is Running Out Poems

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Genie In a Gin Bottle
Her lips caress another cigarette
A fading belle looking for love
The smoke veils a creature of habit
Chasing a young girls dream

But this Genie found the palace...

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Categories: time is running out, love, sad,
Form: Free verse



Seize the Day
Live each day as if it were your last
I tell you  dear friend time is running  so fast
All of us would one day...

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Categories: time is running out, life, love, people, time,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Famous Last Line
STAND BY ME

Oh my darling the news is so bleak
I saw the consultant only last week
Think we better start making plans
See the vicar; hear the...

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Categories: time is running out, death, sad love, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am the Blue Marlin
I AM THE BLUE MARLIN*

 I was made
To venture undulating time
 And chase the tides forever facing forward 
  Through glinting waves by unknown...

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Categories: time is running out, environment, fish, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Gloaming
I was a daydreamer and stargazer, who eagerly awaited calm nights of glitter,
Like blue skies warily turning pink, plum and red, as orange sun sinks,...

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Categories: time is running out, beauty, fantasy, nature, sunset,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Earth Cries
My pulse is weak; it flutters while I plead
for air to give my lungs a chance to breathe.
Abuse must stop, or soon my heart will...

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Categories: time is running out, earth, environment,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member I'Ll Celebrate
Don't dare to tell me how to act my age
Or that I'm too much drama on the stage
The curtain call will come, and here am...

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Categories: time is running out, celebration, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Goodnight To the Moon
Another night has come and gone
Sleep tight old friend the moon
The sands of time are running fast
As days turn in to dunes

Yellow takes away the...

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Categories: time is running out, good night, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Littlest Elf
Time was running out, Christmas Eve was drawing nigh!
The elves had worked day and night since early in July!
To meet Santa's toy-making schedule, there must...

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Categories: time is running out, christmas, christmas, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Surviving This World
Surviving this World that has so much wrong,
It makes me wonder if I've changed,
I know I’m just a pilgrim passing through,
I would get to know...

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Categories: time is running out, africa, age, america, baptism,
Form: Verse
The Agony Outside
The Agony Outside


    Still sitting here wondering why my reflection always fades
        And how that...

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Categories: time is running out, confusion, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Couplet
Who Ate My Pizza
Johnny stutters when he's nervous
Gina skipped to school one day
Janice lost her favorite ruler
In the backyard yesterday

Where is my pizza
It was in the microwave
Someone came...

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Categories: time is running out, humor, inspirational, life,
Form: 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 running out, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Angel With the Black Wings
She sits upon an old, rotted out log contemplating her strife, surrounded by the beauty of nature and the blooming of new life
And there she...

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Categories: time is running out, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Endless Walk On My Birthday
We walk in the desert ... our steps,
                 ...

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Categories: time is running out, allusion, birthday, growth, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs