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Premium Member Eternity's Viral Hourglass
That which is neutral,
no big deal,
normal,
not noticed,
enjoys an intimate mirror effect,
behaves and misbehaves
with the logic of eternity.

Time steers virally clockwise,
eastern dawn toward west's setting sun,
birth through death,
with day's completion duskly hoping
for red skies at night.

Time...

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Categories: hourglasses, culture, destiny, environment, math, philosophy, psychological, religion,
Form: Free verse



Silent Fights
When we fight in silence, like titans abound by egos
An eager poet overcome by words.
A beautiful model delicate as raindrops
When the silence in the room is as thick as our nostalgia
Wanting to hold each other but...

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Categories: hourglasses, africa, devotion, for her, girlfriend, love,
Form: 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...

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Categories: hourglasses, addiction, america, baseball, basketball, beach, bible,
Form: I do not know?
Dial Tone
I can't seem to hear the dial on this broken telephone, 
staring back at the brick walls in this greco home, 
The tone becomes ominous the further i progress,
the depths of a broken soul from...

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Categories: hourglasses, bullying, depression, farewell, hurt, imagery, leaving, love,
Form: Rhyme
Schizophrenia
Memories
 become sand full of hourglasses. 
One thousand snowflakes are one thousand dead cats in the Hudson River.
 Memories hurt. 
They are Michael Schofield broken out of prison. 
Prison is the look on your father’s...

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Categories: hourglasses, confusion, introspection, words, me, high school,
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 memories,
of destructive actions   ~   Terrible justification deeds
needed to break the...

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Categories: hourglasses, america, history, philosophy, political, violence,
Form: Narrative
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 loose the lies
sleeping in the crevices of the fraying...

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Categories: hourglasses, appreciation, light, mirror, mystery, remember, simple, time,
Form: Lanterne
Premium Member You Wouldn't Know Cupid's Arrow If It Shot You Right In the Face
Once a wish, always a pipe dream
You would’ve known what it was if it came true 
Let’s swap journals and see what we find 
Show me the life you think you’re living 
And I’ll show...

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Categories: hourglasses, anxiety, best friend, conflict, devotion, emo, friendship
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Are We All But a Number
                            In this world and in this life...

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Categories: hourglasses, appreciation, hyperbole, introspection, life, metaphor, perspective, truth,
Form: Free verse
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 is a certain beauty to time hanging from a chain
A charm of...

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Categories: hourglasses, culture, family, father son, grandparents, history, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
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’t feel so right for me
I...

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Categories: hourglasses, celebration, dream, growth, leaving, power, strength, success,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Hourglass
From the moment we are born…the moment our head first pops out…
the hourglass of our life turns over and our time begins to run out.

Of course we don’t understand this when we’re young…
how time itself...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hourglasses, time,
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 embrace...

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Categories: hourglasses, beauty, betrayal, desire, imagination,
Form: Lyric
Hourglasses and Sand Don'T Mix
Moonlit ride, darling Jasmine at his side
Strode the carpet ride, the night was young
Devil was in the details though, as they glide
Across the desert, time sadly crept and clung

To their faces, bodies, as they were...

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© Tim B  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hourglasses, adventure, time, travel, sweet, time, sweet, time,
Form: Rhyme
Cliche'
let us say the summer that year
was a cliché to its lovers.
And its once open windows stood 
firm
against Prying Eyes.
Perhaps the silver 
smoke of automobiles rose toward the waiting sun that
climbed so eagerly. we didn’t...

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Categories: hourglasses, life, loss, lost love, love, seasonssun,
Form: Free verse
Hourglasses and Rubies Red
Rubies and blood,
Some gems shine brighter,
Than the morning sun,
There are few temptations,
Greater than the taste of cocoa,
Honey, airy mist, and cream,
And drinking you into me,
Just subtle glance is enough,
To light my lips ablaze,
Suddenly so dry...

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Categories: hourglasses, lust,
Form: Free verse
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...

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Categories: hourglasses, anxiety, beautiful, depression, mental illness, pain, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
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...

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Categories: hourglasses, appreciation, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Youth Symphony
As red wine strips fill the glasses
And smiles all over your faces,
The joy of being young and free
Makes you want more pieces of Brie.  

What chances do you take each day,
To try and fight...

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Categories: hourglasses, life, people, time,
Form: Rhyme
The Tower of Life
Within the village stood a great tower 
Across the lands countless traveled to attempt to climb this tower, yet many cowered 
Those, who achieved this great feat were praised by the masses 
Given to them...

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Categories: hourglasses, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Narrow Margin
- in those moments, it shines.
The nostalgia of an upside down
world glinting up through hourglasses of years,
a mark impressed upon flesh; a scar harbouring
simple childhood games inside a jagged
line now faded. Occasionally it flares,
reddens from...

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Categories: hourglasses, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Remember(An Acrostic Answer)
Did you think for a moment,
anxious prodigal would ever forget?
Do you regret, as I, hereditary stubbornness?

Inconsequentially,
My favorite childhood memory

Starched, bleached, hourglasses internal playmate,
Two unsung heros, far from home, adventure underway.
Indigo Comanche, flecked in dawns final...

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Categories: hourglasses, introspection, nostalgia,
Form: Acrostic
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,
  ...

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Categories: hourglasses, dark, death, deep, destiny, life,
Form: Rhyme
Chasing Shadows
I’ve been chasing shadows for so long, I know not what else to do
I’m left wondering what went wrong, was it lies, was it true?
Looking back upon foot prints cast, they seem so shallow to...

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Categories: hourglasses, introspection, life, lost love, love
Form: Rhyme
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
  ...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hourglasses, angst, cry,
Form: Rhyme

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