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Expiration Poems - Poems about Expiration

Premium MemberExpiration Date

I want some chicken noodle soup. I find two cans in the pantry and check the expiration dates so I’ll be sure to open the can that will expire the earliest.  First can—August 2026. Second can—February 2019.  I stare at the second date in disbelief. I look at the date again, as if
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Categories: expiration, appreciation, food, life, prayer,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberOur Expiration Date

Our Expiration Date
Miracle Man
9/9/2024

Time has no favorites, passing the same for each,
and at birth God assigns an expiration date.
This assigned time period man cannot breach,
but the life he lives determines his eternal fate.

Man isn’t informed when his last day will be,
and expiration date changes only by God’s choice.
Whether our lives are lived guardedly or carefree,
The
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Categories: expiration, death, god, time,
Form: Quatrain



Expiration Date

Psalm 90:10
Man's life is 70 years
Beyond is bonus.
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Categories: expiration, age, faith, gospel, life,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberExpiration Date

Expiration Date
Miracle Man
8-9-2023

When near life’s end if I should look back
at life’s ups and downs and all its stings
I’ll review those times when drifting off track
and lament not enjoying the little things

But only God knows when this will occur,
I must stay ready for the knock at my door.
For at this time my life will appear
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Categories: expiration, age, death, god, heaven,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberAn Inspiraling Expiration

It might become too ironically
and iconically embareassing
to admit
I am taking a (s)hit
while exploring
my latest
and perhaps final 
nutritional surmise
compressing peak climax 
surprise

A well-capitalized
Systematic Theology
of EcoLogical Systems
is not such 
an inviting much
of a moving title

Yet herein
we might energetically
if not also massively 
invite "should"
raise up Yang's enlightening strengths
without also evacuating Yin's paradoxical
outgoing flow 

Of nutritional exchange
from what was
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Categories: expiration, earth, environment, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse



Expiration

EXPIRATION :
Existence of certainties and uncertainties, 
Governed by disclosed and undisclosed warrantees,
The story is actually a mystery. 
Promises become unfulfilled, 
And the expectants turn to wail. 
If we choose to talk about that,
Nothing would be considered by heart.
It's still the same old tale without doubt,
Of which men of ages didn't understand. 
We've heard of it
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Categories: expiration, age, death, destiny, future,
Form: Personification

Expiration

The smoke ascended 
through the wind of fire and rain; 
till it disappeared.
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Categories: expiration, life,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberExpiration Date

Do we all feel the same,
Is life just a waiting game
Why? do some, live so long,
Is it because they are strong,
Or have they more to learn,
And have not yet earned,
The peace that we all desire,
When we expire.
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Categories: expiration, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberExpiration Date

I am fire and rhapsody in my private chambers.
Inside out, I am flourishing, animated, and measured.
My heart pumps owning the same conviction at age 15.
My hormonal sexual splendor surely must be the same 
dense river I swam at 20. 
In the mirror, I see only my ardor dancing, 
my uncontainable flourish advancing.  

As usual,
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Categories: expiration, age, angel, death, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberExpiration Dates

EXPIRATION DATES - 20190122

We’ve all got inspiration dates,
But we can only guess at when.
From first breath ‘til the end,
Our lives were pre-measured by the Fates.

That doesn’t mean we can’t shorten our time
By taking risks with unhealthy lifestyles.
The Grim Reaper sadly grants no extra miles;
Life’s not a game played with overtime.

So what shall we do with
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Categories: expiration, death, family, friendship, love,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Premium MemberWrong Expiration Date

Wrong Expiration Date
Written: by “The Protected One”
7/10/2018

I’ve modified or eliminated habits of late,
Sudden Cardiac Arrest was not endearing. 
As I stood at the threshold of Heaven’s gate,
I heard a choir singing and angels cheering.

Then God breathed life into a broken man,
And now I’m surviving on borrowed time.
Seventy nine years has been my life’s span,
At expiration
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Categories: expiration, death, god, heart,
Form: Lyric

Expiration Date

Give me guarantee in life 
As life is not one
Tell me there is another way
How long have we searched
Endlessly hoping it exists 
Reality in life is not true to us

More often we should wait
Everyday we wait for life to be better

Another day builds just a new level of death

Nobody ever tells us we have been
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Categories: expiration, conflict, courage, dark, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Expiration Date

Her thoughts bled from her fingertips
In the form of ink, they created art
She churned her words in sync to the beat
Taking music from the pain in her heart 

Woven words roll down her face
Saturating the canvas beneath
Adorning her sorrows with delicate lace
Lovely strokes from a brush of grief 

She was filling the shoes of her
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Categories: expiration, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Expiration Redacted

What crap.
I write of this and that
 the dog, the birds, the cat.
In these random fluctuatinos
 can't imagine where to be punctuating.
Use the comma, colon, apostrophe for contractions
 as i slip and slide to my own in-actions.
A cap, a misspelled word
 what I was saying is so absurd,
A cadence, a rhyme,
 slip of the tongue
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Categories: expiration, crazy, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Love Expiration Date

I knew our love was passed it's expiration date
But I still ate what you put on a plate
Now I'm left with stomach ache
I shouldn't have ate, the leftovers after our love reached it's expiration date

A dream gone wrong forces you to wake up
Some things should be left broken and aren't meant to be made up
But
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Categories: expiration, deep, devotion, emotions, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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