Out of timeI can admit I give far too many chances than I should
I always manage to overlook the bad and see the good
The one thing about me is there’s always a time limit for you
I eventually grow tired of things
Don’t take my love as a weakness because it’s one of the things I love about myself...
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Categories:
moving on,
Form: Free verse
Funny How a Room Dies
Funny how a room dies
First it’s off to college
Then out into the world
Blink twice, there’s marriage
Into the abyss,...
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Categories:
moving on, growing up, home, loss,
Form: Free verse
Grief, the Hidden DoorGrief is not a wound.
It is a door...
Hidden behind the tapestry
We spent a life weaving.
It opens...
When we can no longer lie....
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Categories:
moving on, bereavement, farewell, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse
Electric Summer MistIn summer's heat, where vibrant blossoms sway,
A storm awakens, darkened clouds align,
The thunder whispers secrets of the day,
While lightning's flash reveals the past's design.
Beneath the tempest's wrath, my heart takes flight,
To memories concealed in shadow's veil,
Each droplet falls, a tear of lost delight,...
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Categories:
moving on, anger, betrayal, fate, moving
Form: Sonnet
From Lost to FoundI have lost, what I need
Losing all that I need to believe
I am cold, I can’t breathe
I’ll do all that I need to succeed
I’ve become what I hate
I am losing my soul
While I stray from the path
Everything that I’ve known
This is all a mistake
This is out of control
As I stray from the...
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Categories:
moving on, faith, inspirational, mirror, moving
Form: Free verse
Miss Goody Two Shoes
I once had a neighbor called miss goody two shoes,
Each time I was cornered she sang me the blues.
Because she hadn’t improved,
I just picked up and moved,
after fifteen years I thought I’d paid my dues.
...
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Categories:
moving on,
Form: Limerick
Letting Go of YesterdayLaying in a hammock
Swaying back and forth
Reminiscing long gone fun
Remembering what was done.
Sitting on a swing
Poised above the ground
In your eyes are tears
About all the lost years.
You can't fix the past
But you can do this:
Loathe? I don't think so
Forgive your ex: let go!...
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Categories:
lost love, moving on,
Form: Rhyme
How Quaint
Ring the bell-hop, how quaint
Dial the Operator? – Translate! …
Western Union’s clickety-clack, now faint
alongside the sensory lure of wet paint
All of these ~ today, ain’t
...
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Categories:
history, loss, moving on,
Form: Monorhyme
Categories:
moving on, best friend, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse
her light would reflect
Moon blooms like petals through a bulb,
The skies within her break as glass.
Most times she holds cup partway dark —
Moon blooms like petals through a bulb,
Only close, and open ~then some~ —
The shadow of her going as
Moon blooms like petals through a bulb
The skies within her break as glass....
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Categories:
moving on, angst, dark, death, imagery,
Form: Triolet
Fish out of waterI wonder who I’ll be when alone
A salmon spent on Lagunitas creek
A giving tree robbed of it nuts
A sunset rooster with no eggs
When your chick has flown the nest
Even if for a summer vacation
Who’ll give you meaning when life is fallow?
Who will you be when your seed is in college?
Will you be a cobweb at...
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Categories:
moving on, animal, birth, child, death,
Form: Free verse
Leg WalkingI walked with my legs
straight into nightmares
never saw another person
coming up the stairs
- Come to get me like that
Breathed through my ankles
lived from a rucksack
slept in the tree house
and walked like a quack quack
- But don't you quote me on that
Take three steps at a time
never need no crutch
didn't want a brother
wasn't asking for...
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Categories:
moving on, song,
Form: Rhyme
Moving ForwardAt times this may be hard to do but must be done
It may be easier to do after considering a fight won
When it comes to moving forward the battle is within
You know your destination and where you have been
Doing this will require putting the past behind you
Forgetting about everything you see in your rearview
These...
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Categories:
moving on, confidence, emotions, feelings, future,
Form: Rhyme
Volcanic Eruption of a SoulIn the mine of silence,
within the furnace of pain,
a burning soul, prepares for
a tremendous explosion!
The mantle rocks fractured ...
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Categories:
moving on, anger, earth, emotions, fire,
Form: Free verse
Well, LovedLike old paint,
the discarded heart chips away
where it lay
in a hollow chest
not unlike my own breast.
In its prime,
untainted by sin
and made of sheepskin,
its candy apple hue
captivated everyone—especially the likes of you.
However, who now
could admire a color
so mottled by misuse and so drastically duller?
Verily, no unclouded eye could find merit
in such a sorry trinket....
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Categories:
moving on, angst, extended metaphor, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Moving On Poems
Definition | What is Moving On in Poetry?