Long Slip through the fingers Poems
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It was always hard to understand you, like a maze without an exit and without meaningIt was always hard to understand you, like a maze without an exit and without meaning,
Your problems always flooded me, a continuous and relentless wave,
Day by day a new challenge, a chaos in which I...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Runnerb a n g b a n g!
I couldn't believe I just fired some shots
there she laid...
belly up
counting the dust
dead...
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slip through the fingers, death, immigration, loneliness, murder, scary, sin, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
The Empty VesselWhen love leaves,
it isn’t a soft rain—it’s a thunderclap,
splitting the sky,
leaving you standing in the middle of a field
with nothing but the echo of what should have been.
You become the broken branch,
quivering in the storm,
a...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, relationship,
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Free verse
ElementsShe is fire
Raging red and hot through all that surrounds her.
She entices you, drawing you in,
Like a moth to her flame,
Just to singe your wings.
She does not discriminate,
Nobody is safe from her unyielding heat.
She promises...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, fear, people, satire, autumn, body, love, may,
Form:
Free verse
In a world of broken mirrors and half-forgotten dreamsIn a world of broken mirrors and half-forgotten dreams,
The elites weave webs of augmented unrealities, keeping souls captive.
In the vast labyrinth of the internet, fragments of truth mix
With delicate lies, like butterflies trapped in the...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, fantasy,
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Free verse
I'm not perfect but I'm worth it#I'm_not_perfect_but_I'm_worth_it
I'm not perfect but I'm worth it, I'm working on it, I go up, I go down, through your eyes, I see my picture, your soul perfected, believe you me, I'm trying to fit...
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slip through the fingers, break up, deep, emotions, feelings, heartbroken, true
Form:
Free verse
Cupid Part 2But there’s still his hands in the way… hovering over my eyes… Not allowing me to see what he sees. There’s all these thorns protecting that wild flower peeling in this isolated bush where I’ve...
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slip through the fingers, analogy, feelings, for him, longing, rose, teenage,
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I do not know?
UncoverTearing a poem in two, ripping a part an entire idea
insanity or ingenious, unthinkable or approved, forbidden
who knows
One important question: is traitor now the title I bear
a traitor to myself, betrayer to everything I stand...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, how i feel, , Lullaby,
Form:
Bio
Lonely Soul------------------------
Dialog of 2 poets:
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1. Lonely Soul
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Between heaven and earth,
between summer and winter,
Lonely Soul rushed,
rustling her wings.
Up to the stars,
again downward
from eave to eave,
from window to window
and again, she is in flight.
The fires burn somewhere;
somewhere...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, friendship, son, song-lost, lost,
Form:
Lyric
Mary LouTo know you're destined to write poetry, I think a poet needs to find a meaning to his or her own life in everything they see, read or hear. Be it simply opinion, or great...
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slip through the fingers, america, analogy, beauty, character, fire, love, sensual,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Without YouI know that there is no life without love;
Only a brutal half-life, shadowed, a ghost of an existence
And I know that there is no love without life
And I know, too, that without...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, angst, devotion, lost love, lovelife, me, old,
Form:
Free verse
My StoryMy StorAs I sit here lonely,
I realize how much he meant to me,
I took advantage of the love he gave me,
Until he abandoned me.
Now I realize what I had,
And what I left slip through my...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, life, me, life, love, me,
Form:
Free verse
Where the Sun Doesn't ShineOnce soul mates,
the world was their oyster;
...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, break up, fate, love hurts, relationship, sad,
Form:
Narrative
When You Fall For the Wrong OneI guess I always knew
That it was too good to be true
That I never really had you in my hand
Just a filler, a time killer
Just a soft place you could land
Not the girl that you’d...
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slip through the fingers, confusion, depression, introspection, life, loss, lost love,
Form:
Lyric
Kindling KindnessFinally, she could get down on her knees again, not in prayer but to touch rosemary and lavender which had begun to send its fragrance into the spring and rising warmth in nature’s heart. There...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, happiness,
Form:
Haibun
Silent ReckoningI hate to hear your silent voice,
a whisper caught in the hollow of my chest,
where echoes of unspoken words linger,
like shadows dancing in the fading light.
I hate...
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slip through the fingers, fate, how i feel, hurt, love,
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I do not know?
For Bob DylanRamblin' Bob Dylan Blues
(For Bob Dylan)
Why does the sun dry up so many scattered tears
slipping down the coarse cheek of a million hushed fears
where no one is scalded though the searing fog clears
while prayers are...
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slip through the fingers, angst, confusion, dedication, depression, dream, forgiveness, goodbye,
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I do not know?
what if
I’m 15,
young,
but they keep telling me the future’s already here—
whirring, buzzing, clicking.
Machines thinking faster than us,
AI, robots, tech everywhere,
and I—
I hate...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, confusion, future,
Form:
Free verse
Make the Best of TodayNobody knows what tomorrow will bring
Could be sunshine, could be rain
Could be pleasure, could be pain
But you got to have faith over fear
Even in your darkest hours and
Drowning in your own tears, keep the
Faith, faith...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, faith, time, today,
Form:
Free verse
I just hope time doesn’t hate me too, doesn’t judge me for the moments wastedI just hope time doesn’t hate me too, doesn’t judge me for the moments wasted,
I never meant to waste the seconds, to let them slip through my fingers,
I swear, I didn’t want to, but I...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Ode To SapphoOde to Sappho
Do you ever wonder that which you seek for might not exist?
That only in your sweetest dreams you will find at most small glimpses of it.
Your wildest thoughts are only vapory figures that...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, history, poetry, universe,
Form:
Free verse
People don't always come along the path of the heart for eternityPeople don't always come along the path of the heart for eternity,
To stamp their seal upon your soul, to inscribe their name on the floor of your pain.
We can't always tell them apart as flourishing...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
WHEN OUR WORLDS COLLIDEVerse 1
I would love to be your comfort
A blanket when you're confused
A bright song on every dark day
Warmth and hope you cannot lose
To be the canopy to cover you
When life’s storms come your way
I can...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, destiny, dream, emotions, fantasy, longing, love, romantic,
Form:
Lyric
Too LateI’m sick and tired of the violence that conspired through the time when I was
young. Just a little girl, may have been not too bright, nevertheless still not dumb.
Looking back on the times,...
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slip through the fingers, inspirational, introspection, life, sad, sympathy, uplifting, heart,
Form:
Free verse
I have sat and contemplated, entire galaxies of thoughts have enveloped my beingI have sat and contemplated, entire galaxies of thoughts have enveloped my being,
And maybe it is time for me to withdraw, to whisper in the evening's hush: "Let me slip through your fingers."
Too much have...
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Categories:
slip through the fingers, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse