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The World Is a Clown
The world is a clown looking at you up and down
The world is a clown; the plane is about to touchdown
Madness in the East, madness in the west
And the north and the south are gallivanting...

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Categories: clock is ticking, appreciation, confidence, desire, encouraging, love, moving on,
Form: Free verse



Ready To Go
People are wandering around the town
With their heads pointing to the clouds
People are wandering about the town
Looking like fearful clowns
Nasty men with hard backs 
Are walking about the park 
Harassing the women in the boiling...

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Categories: clock is ticking, confidence, endurance, england, environment, friendship, journey, meaningful,
Form: Narrative
The Zone
You have breached the zone; tell me where else can the children roam? You have planted landmines on every corner and you have disrupted the social order. I hear sirens going off in my dreams...

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Categories: clock is ticking, bereavement, business, childhood, community, creation, emotions, freedom,
Form: Narrative
The Clock
Everything around is quiet, not a sound could be heard, except for the engine running up and down the street and the ticking clock erupting my heart beat.

I hear the sound of music, a yonder...

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Categories: clock is ticking, analogy, appreciation, community, england, freedom, happiness, metaphor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Kelvinator
Evening has quietly tiptoed away on slippered feet
Houses up and down the street are silhouettes

A garden looks white- washed in moonlight, 
And the faint sound of a train whistles through the air 
  ...

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Categories: clock is ticking, childhood, family, memory, nostalgia, , Lullaby,
Form: Narrative



A Mind Filled With Cobwebs
Your touch got me acting so crazy 
Got my body screaming from your heat 
Knocks me off my feet 
Drop me on my knees and give it to me right 
You got me jumping and...

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Categories: clock is ticking, betrayal,
Form: Epic
Premium Member My Love Potion
Why did you come to see me?
Asked the witch,
In a nasal tone!
Are you yourself not made of magic?

I looked at her in silence,
Wondering if she could feel the pain
Dancing all over me
Running through my bloodstream
Pulsating...

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Categories: clock is ticking, longing, love, love hurts, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse
What, Does It Become From They
What merriment is there in friends? They come and go always.
Who will stay here until the end? Somebody leaves always.
What will be there throughout it all? It will break always.
Something has to be done; they’re...

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© Me Me  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clock is ticking, anger, angst, friend, night,
Form: Prose
Ataraxia
Writing this I must be doing
This I love I must I love it must
Why?
Heh, the words melt into nothing as they say
Can’t understand it anyways
The papers scramble and run and wait that’s not supposed to—
Ah...

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© Jiawei Lyu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clock is ticking, 12th grade, allegory, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
What Is Joy
The sun is risen, another day is here like a movement.
Eyes are meeting with a glance.World's invisible smiles.
The day break of our youth, the distance to cover from our dreams.
We sow the seed of hope...

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Categories: clock is ticking, lifeday, night, light, fire, day, fire, light,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member When He Comes
It may be in the evening,
When you are sitting home alone,
And you have time watching the sun goes down,
Sinking slowly over the ocean blue,
As the clock ticks loudly on the shelf, 
You listen to children...

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Categories: clock is ticking, angel, beautiful, bible, christian, inspiration, peace, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Violet Eyes
I made a promise, a little visit
A busy day...so much to do..
But, I'm running late, they will be waiting...
I should be going...the clock is ticking
I'll take just a minute for a quick hello
no need to...

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Categories: clock is ticking, friendship, people,
Form: Narrative
You Deserve Better Than That...
this is your life the clock is ticking, 
take those shackles off, 
meet yourself within, 

many wives tossed aside, 
after twenty or thirty years...
it happens...and it happens 
everywhere... 

rebuild yourself, 
yes if needed be, without...

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Categories: clock is ticking, passion, women, women,
Form: Lyric
What Do You See
Separation rules the nation it seems
Our race decrease the identity that cannot be redeemed

Yes we have amicable lives whom still believe in MLK's dream
The steam from our hatred of deceit and misfortune 
Has brought our...

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Categories: clock is ticking, africa, america, angel, basketball, betrayal, bridal shower,
Form: Suzette Prime
Biological Clock Ticking
You know how some woman have a panic attacks
   Because they realize their days of having children are limited
  Well young girls of the teenage variety have that same kind of fear
...

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Categories: clock is ticking, life, love, missing, woman, time, missing, time,
Form: Free verse
ready or not
Look look it’s crazy I’m the one they want to represent
Young black girl,I can probably be the president
I’m the voice of the youth,you heard my tone I think it’s evident
I know who I am, they...

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© keke davis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clock is ticking, city, father daughter, freedom, grandmother, i love
Form: Rhyme
The Oath'Resurrection of a Sinner's Rebirth To a Positive Path
In this life we learn to walk, we learn right from wrong, still we all stumble and sometimes fall. At times knowing what's right we make choices to do wrong. Without getting up none would...

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Categories: clock is ticking, allah, change, deep, faith, god, inspiration, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Silence
I head you but I can't find you my mind is wondering in the dark storm,I am siting in this chair just staring at this big wall it seem like, I am being covered in...

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Categories: clock is ticking, absence, america, angel, betrayal, bible, blessing, confidence,
Form: Chant Royal
Premium Member Pride Be Hubris Run Amok
41.
        Resist I Must

Pride is hubris run amok
To rot the soul within.
It rises from the depths of hell...
The deadliest of sins.

It is the snake that slithers so
To pervert...

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Categories: clock is ticking, anxiety, endurance, pride,
Form: Rhyme
The Clock Is Ticking
I awake and i see the sunrise just as you do. 
But at times i feel these clouds cover my mind. 
My desire fades and i long to sleep. 
Why won't you come and lay...

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Categories: clock is ticking, devotion, faith, happiness, hope, passionme, heart, time,
Form: Lyric
Robert Sherriff A Grave Warning to Humanity
Robert Sherriff - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian 

The End of Earth as We Know It

A Grave Warning to Humanity

The clock is ticking, and the end of Earth as...

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Categories: clock is ticking, birth, creation, death, god, jesus, presidents day,
Form: Elegy
The Good Daughter
having made her way out of the nest 
having made something of herself
she rubs elbows with some of the city’s finest lawyers
balancing her own practice with a sad attempt at having a social life---
she calls...

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Categories: clock is ticking, life, mother, daughter, home, daughter, home, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There's Still Time
There will be a gentle calm before the mighty storm.                         ...

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Categories: clock is ticking, christian, destiny, judgement,
Form: Prose Poetry
Cinderella
That night I went to eat
With my guy you see.
After that made it home
But still felt lonely

I had a paper invitation
To a big grand ball
Do I go? Do I tell?
For the first time sneak real...

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Categories: clock is ticking, adventurenight, time, night, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To My Beloved
My Dear....

Do you know?
How empty is our home, when you are gone? 
Another evening fades, another day declines
How silent are these walls, when you're away
Even in the quiet, I feel the comfort of your presence
...

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Categories: clock is ticking, devotionwords, night, love, me, night, i love
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things