Time Iambic Pentameter Poems

I swore I’d never let myself get old
           That time and I would always be...

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In shadows cast on lands afar or near,
A dance of spheres in silence, stark and clear.
Though veiled from some, the cosmic play proceeds,
Unfolding vast, beyond...

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Grandfather, Father, Son- three legends are:
they served their City service very well.
From 30s through the 80s, each a star;
as Firemen- many dangers each befell.

Three generations...

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For all this time, I couldn't call it - rape.
I couldn't use that word, and make it real.
Like plowing a field before it's harvest,
or pruning...

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We cannot part without this sad goodbye 
And leaving, we are learning how to die
a little as we bid this sad farewell. 
I cannot bear...

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“Are you afraid of being left behind?”
“No, it’s just temporary, I’m not lonely.” 
But abandonment issues aren't easy. 
Perhaps it’s called a frail state of...

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When I finish this course called life, I'll die;
     and be glad, for no more must I be sad;
for I'll know...

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Wish I, a journal of my days, had kept
from my teen years until the present time;
I'd have a way to view and intercept
each memory by...

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Pendulum clock grandfather caramel pear 
    Pacified cogs set time tamper potential 
    Tranquil hands erase a thousand arousals...

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As a child, this reoccurring dream haunted.
When I would run from a monster chasing me
Then he'd reach out to grab, I'd fly undaunted.
As time went...

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I am so blessed to have great-grandchildren.
Four generations now upon our tree;
three girls- age four, one and a half, nine weeks.
How fortunate to have them...

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Nocturnal hours are shorter than before
since the position of our sun, on queue,
now lets each day last longer to grant more
good time for other things...

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There is a time in life we might regret
in missing opportunities to learn
that which we thought somehow could be offset
since living current days was our...

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Endless- difficult to understand
when everything around us has an end.
All life on earth is destined to disband
with time and age- on that, we can depend.

We...

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"Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. 
They take their time and wander on this 
their only chance to soar.”
      ...

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