Once Poems - Poems about Once

I once lost my thought on the paths of time, like a wandering cloud in the ever-changing sky, but I found it chained between the pages of a memory, where moments weave garments of longing, on the road of life, I wandered with my heart full of desires burning like stars in the deep night, and in the...

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I was married, but to me, it wasn’t marriage. It was poverty-induced— a fate sealed by hunger and silence. I was an orphan, taken in by my mother’s brother— the uncle who accepted that I could live with him. But he was abusive, an emotional robber. He broke the seal of my womanhood when I was just into the third of the teenage years. Long story short— he...

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Love was once a wild fire, a living flame igniting every touch with the brightness of night, We spoke in warmth, in whispered desires, with hearts beating wildly and hands tracing the fire’s path, But love is not meant to remain a flame, not a spark that burns and flickers always the same, It softens, deepens, learns to...

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Thee crumbling walls can’t hear my song, Though once they rang with joy and cries— Now silence stays the whole day long. My sisters’ love, both soft and strong, Lit up the dusk like fireflies. The crumbling walls can’t hear my song. My brothers helped me along, With quiet nods and whispered wise— Now silence...

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She wore perfume that smelled like a Sunday lie, And lips like rusted knives— A woman like that don’t settle, She just wanders through men’s lives. I gave her my keys and my winter coat, She gave me a goodbye note, Hidden within a half-full bottle And a half-finished murder quote. She was last seen...

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(A Prophecy of Collapse) Once upon a time, beneath stars and stripes, Stood a colossus—loud, armed, and blind to its blight. It roared not with wisdom but with greed and might, Casting shadows across oceans, in day and night. Its streets were paved with silence, not gold, Citizens numbed, liberty bought and sold. The media fed illusions, thick and sweet, While justice begged...

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I woke long before he did, quietly slipped from his side and donned his warm woolen robe. As difficult as 'twas to leave him, to have awakened him— I'd never have been able to leave his bed. This morning, what I sought was not his heart to please, but what I saw in a dream that held me captive until I woke. And now, I had...

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Through the darkness Wonders through a summer rain Thunder and Lightning having surge Bringing the fire to ignite It became the feeling to write Compose with contrast Ideas full of memories A past life to share It was no time to just sleep Nightlight construct Letter by letter Alpha sentences made it better Sentences like tour guides Look to the left and right in observe Every word being...

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Len’s Story Once upon a time I said we should wed Your pretty face blushed as you whispered “yes” Love for eternity, I promised this For fifty years we shared married life bliss. Ours was a perfect match, made in heaven Gift wrapped in love of the purest essence Every moment, minute and every hour Magnificent as a bloom in flower. It’s lonely...

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There once lived a woman made of Jell-O. She jiggled and wiggled as she walked. Invisible to most she was as clear as a window pane. She often wore her heart on her sleeve and ended the day with washed up colors, kind of like gelatin in hot water. You can only imagine...

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I write because I need to It's what I have to do Put feelings down on paper Thoughts I have towards you It doesn't stop the longing That ever present ache But it helps to write them down because I know my love's not fake And if somebody reads this They'll know there lived a man Who loved a pretty Bluebird Who's middle name was...

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a young boy once lived in a zoo round him such a hullabaloo to earn his full daily keep he looked after all the sheep shovelling up their mounds of poo to change his one job he pestered and with the truth he so twisted then he looked after the goats their smell was beyond a joke regrets the story invented now caring for baby...

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I was once a window, a gateway to the unbounded light of the sky, Through which rays danced like spirits in the midst of a clear night, The moon bowed to whisper to me the secrets of stars forgotten by time, And people looked through me, their eyes full of dreams and hidden longings, Each gaze was a thread...

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Still a child at heart tho' older are some other parts and only for a lark back to my childhood here I hark I remember a rhyme in the far reaches of my mind hickory dickory dock the mice ran up the clock the clock struck one the mouse fell down luckily the plucky other ducked shucked and jived escaped survived got out alive and ran away to live another...

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Damaged, once dismayed they return to the fray Beaten down by the grind they can’t leave behind Won’t they shrug off their wounds shake off the gloom ...

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