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Hourglasses Poems - Poems about Hourglasses

Hourglasses Poems - Examples of all types of poems about hourglasses to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for hourglasses.
Premium Member On Christmas Day
... "Travel light" Santa said to me as I grappled for all my most treasured belongings. I stuffed them all in a duffle bag, then with the silliest of grin on my face I said, " Ready" The rid......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, appreciation, christmas,
Form: Free verse



Convoluted
...My subjective has been documented by my objective – sort of like, my thoughts verify my brain, though no one can see them. I guess, what I'm trying to say is, Time exists independent of watches......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, christian, extended metaphor, humorous,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Masses
...The brainwashed masses, Wearing rose-colored glasses, And nonchalantly flashing passes, Never realizing the hourglasses Are running out of time. Miasmic shadows And dystopian blows Are worki......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, evil, psychological, society,
Form: Rhyme
Recrudescence
...Stuck in a loop, Staring into space, Time and time again, Making the same mistakes... Soaring one moment, Crashing the next; From long conversations To unanswered texts; Hourglasses and p......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, life, love,
Form: Ballad
limited express
...I fall I leave and I let go For all I know This brain dead of a year Has taught me how And I know now Ain’t got The time The heart The brain To attempt The start of something new It don’......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, celebration, dream, growth, leaving,
Form: Free verse



Revoltee Protestation Amnesia
... America was born in protest violence, but Lady Liberty now has postpartum memento — A colonial, hypocritical condition called: Revoltee Protestation Amnesia Wavy umbilical vanished......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, america, history, philosophy, political,
Form: Narrative
My Hourglass
...An explosion of hair in her face is disclosing the beauty of the eyes veiled beholding a dream unfolding where the poor are gold and war is at most a bloody tale told in the misty night when the ......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, anxiety, beautiful, depression, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beach Idyll: Spencerian Stanza
...Sheer lucid waves caress this oyster beach, an aqua drowse viewed through a saffron lend, and siren rip tides coax into a breach as lambent grains of sand insouciant wend the dunes of torpid eons......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, beach, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Are we all but a number
... In this world and in this life (Are we all just another number) A tax statistic or a c......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, appreciation, hyperbole, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Croquet on the lawn at three pm
...1 2 1 2 in a tutu playing croquet at three pm Abracadabra is a giant kilo of horse manure thrown at the head with a boom. But a boom is neither a boomerang nor a pickling gate in a jar of curdled ......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, addiction, america, baseball, basketball,
Form: I do not know?
I Will Not Weep
...I will not weep for you. Too often did the tears rise and fall like salted hourglasses holding the deluge back. You slipped away quiet, unheard by the clock on the wall and our rainbow wo......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, angst, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ascending from a fools feast
...I thought that I could resist you Until you fell down at my feet Seeing those hungry wanting eyes I prayed, my soul you would not eat Now the preacher could not save me As I succumbed to your ......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, beauty, betrayal, desire, imagination,
Form: Lyric
Death Rock
... Death Rock Time is forever decaded to wait, a never ending story in a never ending date. Spending eternity wondering the outcome of Fate, ne......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, dark, death, deep, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Pocket Watch 1
...Tracking time has changed throughout the years Improving how hours, minutes, seconds appear Sundials, hourglasses, pendulums and more Wall, wrist, mantle, waterproof - clocks galore There i......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, culture, family, father son,
Form: Rhyme
origamirror
... a voice has the choice to speak into the pockets of wind which are parcel carriers connecting the truth with whispers heard on a deafening level only overshadowed by silence shaking ......Read More
Categories: hourglasses, appreciation, light, mirror, mystery,
Form: Lanterne

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