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Elapse Poems - Poems about Elapse

The Big Freeze

...Aspect ratio
The logs had jammed the creek
and a snow storm ws
coming through.
When the weather had turned cold a troubled
people look for a remedy to there aliment.
One person said that it see...
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Categories: elapse, music, myth,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberI, Object

...How many stories need retelling 
for this object to achieve sentimental value?

Does importance have an expiration date 
that’s reached when no one‘s left to gather in celebration?

How many ye...
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Categories: elapse, memory, nostalgia, time,
Form: Free verse



Out of Cluck

...In my kitchen, an old-fashioned timer
Keeps track of my coffee pot’s perk.
I wind it and eight minutes later,
The pot has completed its work.

The timer is shaped like a chicken;
It ticks as th...
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Categories: elapse, time,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFAMILY QUILT

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Among her many talents Deborah loves to quilt.
Watching her piece one together the other day…I started thinking…
how it’s the same way a family is built.

Two people meet…they fall in love…and ...
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Categories: elapse, family,
Form: Rhyme

IRON MAIDEN

...Sponsor : Robert James Ligouri 

IRON MAIDEN 

Iron maiden was she 
fathered from loins of 
Zeus flow free ~
surrounded by swords 
steely three, icicle aura 
bounded hounded 
innocence thor...
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Categories: elapse, allegory, allusion, character, courage,
Form: Alliteration



Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along

...Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along...

as his stronghold diminishes.

Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut
of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts
to revea...
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Categories: elapse, america, animal, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Chicken Little

...Chicken Little

Much like a messenger to mind,
Posed staring down into my face,
I sensed a rooster, brash and bold,
Was challenging my right to breathe.

Thus, in the inkling of an eye
With o...
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Categories: elapse, 12th grade, allusion, anti
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberGood Intentions

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Good Intentions
Written: by Miracle Man
1/25/2025

Procrastination often swaps a sure thing for perhaps,
our opportunity can disappear during times elapse.

On the back burner is where oppor...
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Categories: elapse, character, confidence, desire, passion,
Form: Couplet

I aim to live in the here ahem hair and now

...I aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now...

despite entrenched familiar
obsessive compulsive disorder behavior
distracting me courtesy
countless what if scenarios,
particularly before und...
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Categories: elapse, 7th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse

Displaced in Misplaced Confidence

...If I should get punctured, laying leaking Crimson Tide, 
call me Deacon Blues as I slowly start to die.
If they miss me, take it easy.
All is as it should be.
It's best to cut losses, cut ties, c...
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Categories: elapse, celebrity, farm, fashion, fate,
Form: Free verse

A brief elapse of time

...Lost in the lexicon  of subtlegafe 
dumbconfonded at the the break of day
Watching the smiles from the well wishers
a mass of contradiction ensures
A vexation for the night
brief excursions to b...
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Categories: elapse, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

See You Soon

...Like a painting.
Almost the same thing,
Except not so flat.
And more than that-
Blooming effortlessly.
As if by destiny.
But its true fate,
Is for its beauty to abate.
That is what happens to...
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Categories: elapse, sun,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAnomie

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Written: April 10, 2024 For Edward Ebeh Contest

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

— Rumi
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Categories: elapse, analogy, drug, identity,
Form: Rhyme

Peter

...Denied again, again, again
My God, my king, my hope, my friend
To think that I could ever mend
My shame, my pride, my lies.

To deadly hills they take Him now
A crown of thorns upon His brow
T...
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Categories: elapse, bible, easter,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCommunity Verse

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Written: January 30, 2024
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I will craft melodies for all humanity,
Lyrics for both youth and elderly.
Drafting melodies a...
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Categories: elapse, bereavement, character, people, poverty,
Form: Rhyme

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