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Dead On Time Poems - Poems about Dead On Time

The Wrong Train
...London fog, harshly early with strained warning, Looms all over the image of the hectic city There’s the smell of mists and the taste of Frozen rain gathered before dawn. Pulses brake and start, ......

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Categories: dead on time, city, journey, london,
Form: Free verse
Lao Tzu: English Translations II
...LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS I Be Like Water by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch The highest virtue resembles water because water unselfishly benefits all life, then settles, without......

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Categories: dead on time, death, heaven, life, mother,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Scorpions
...We arose from restless dead since time before your futile presence an ancient Earth did spore your many variants, which we gladly sting, no matter which holy deity or king you set against. Serqet......

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Categories: dead on time, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Evolutionary Letter Number Twenty Six
...Cantos Uno Obsessive Eclipse Octavia Israel is like a mote on mankind’s face Born on May 14 1948 , A host of problems a bloody disgrace I see two eclipses to change it’s fate, A lunar eclip......

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Categories: dead on time, political,
Form: Canzone
Changing gears
...When mankind has been using gears, levers and pulleys, For thousands of years, To speed things up, Or slow things down, To make it possible to take heavier loads uphill, And to go faster on stra......

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Categories: dead on time, 9th grade, addiction, america,
Form: Carpe Diem



Premium Member Land of the Dead Clocks
...n the land of the dead clocks they slither and slink Not caring about the time, without battery or blink Like snakes moseying around, they barely move at all Some linger and languish, others lie a......

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Categories: dead on time, art,
Form: Rhyme
The House of the Dead
...Welcome to the house of the dead, from now on everyone will be fed Welcome to the house of the dead, you can have that gigantic bed and a comfortable place to lay your head; you will have food galo......

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Categories: dead on time, appreciation, birthday, clothes, color,
Form: Free verse
The Hands of Time
...Does Time really run like clockwork, True to the dictates of mankind, Never more than a mill-second out? Or does someone or something have a hand, In giving some of us more time than others, W......

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Categories: dead on time, analogy, appreciation, baptism, bible,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Edward Hyde's Sanctuary
...ACT I Night enters. Ned Sandy: paralysed in eye by gun shot. Scene: Mannequin with rotting limbs “Deadman on the Freeway.” And instead of being the good guy, he’s good, bad, worse. Why kil......

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Categories: dead on time, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Special Marathon Runner
...Last night, I awoke drenched in a cold sweat.. At the finish line, a lei placed around my neck. The cameras clicked, oh, how the crowd roared! The joy, rumbled to be once again, adored! I......

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Categories: dead on time, courage, fantasy, health, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bats Rats Cats
...Covid was caused bats to humans. Black plague was caused rats to humans. What is going to happen with cats to humans? Mats to humans? Slats to humans? Pats to humans? A million dead this ti......

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Categories: dead on time, animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blackbird Is Dead Ii
...Blackbird, blackbird, where have you gone? Here the limbs you lately danced upon, In sunset orange, in sunset red, Now the grapevine says, "Blackbird is dead." Disbelieving owl cries, "Who? Who......

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Categories: dead on time, bird, death, grief, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wondering Why She Would Take Him Back
...Forgiving relatives are fleeting Bristling angry, feeling violated Listing all his bad points Wondering why she would take him back Her children are reluctant Want to stay with grandma, more s......

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Categories: dead on time, abuse, family, hurt, marriage,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member When I Consider Life With You
...When I Consider Life Without You As a baby, I was laying in my bassinet when a rifle bullet was shot through our living room window and passed through right under my bassinet not hitting me. Wa......

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Categories: dead on time, appreciation, blessing, devotion,
Form: Narrative
Philosophical Fallacy
...living in this flagitious society life becomes numb yet we extrapolate irrespective reality till we become dumb mental break downs and frivolous exercises of intellectual contempt permeates a ......

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Categories: dead on time, autumn, birth, inspirational, romantic,
Form: Rhyme

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