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Present Tense Poems - Poems about Present Tense


Premium Member Present Tense Visions Glance-
Many are the present tense; Mostly humbly passive glance; Morbid finds casual stance; Mainly passing visions glance; 6/21/23 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2023?...

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Categories: present tense, analogy, confidence, engagement, perspective,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member The Forever I Feared
The Forever I Feared David J Walker The Forever I feared would last Three years Before I knew The Army wasn’t really Meant to be forever Or was it? Or is it? As I try and write It’s past explanation again Where I am Or have been In the prose of perfect since In the cadence of marching Backward into The...

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Categories: present tense, remembrance day,
Form: Rhyme



Present Tense
Shake me with worry and rattle me with expectations As you would under a tree Rip me open to see what my shell holds Behold, not what you expected is it? Cry to your family and explain to them what you were hoping for Maybe they can exchange me for something else Or maybe you will learn to love me...

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Categories: present tense, birthday, christmas, giving, love,
Form: Free verse
A Present Tense
The sky's are filled with winds of rain. That fill my eye's with stains of pain. And leave my soul soaked to the bone. As I pretend I'm not alone. Somewhere in life so long ago. I learned something I'll never know. The reason why some hearts are lost. And true love in the trash gets tossed. The story's told so many ways. Of...

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Categories: present tense, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Present Tense
SHE WAS THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE HE WAS LIVING IN THE PAST AND IT WASN'T YET APPARENT HOW LONG THEIR LOVE WOULD LAST BUT THEY DIDN'T TALK ABOUT IT WITH PASSIONS SO INTENSE AS THEY SHARED EACH OTHER'S ENERGY AND KEPT IT PRESENT TENSE THEIR DESIRES COINCIDED UNAFRAID OF GOING FAST SPEEDING TOWARDS WHATEVER THEY FELT WOULD MAKE IT LAST IT WAS ALL ABOUT THEIR CHOICES HOW...

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Categories: present tense, lost love, love, passion,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Present Tense
Ate my favorite cookie walking to the bathroom, didn't enjoy it. Thinking about my upcoming vacation was better than living it. Caught myself rushing to meditation class, thought about it. Clicked my alarm to pause wanted more time, I missed it. Argued with my friend never happens again, I did it. Savoring a chocolate delight looking for more, I'd ate it. Stay present. Lighten up....

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Categories: present tense, allusion, confusion, life, self,
Form: Free verse
Present Tense
It seems my past is everything I failed to be. I am a product of my past not a prisoner of it. I will not be stuck in a labyrinth thinking I'll escape one day. However, the clock ticks hours pass the past reverberates the future recedes. If the present changes the past looking back I did not find what I left behind. ~ ~...

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Categories: present tense, faith, philosophy, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Present Tense
don’t hurry today...surrender to the present tense of thanksgiving! PD's Contest: Solitude -- Monoku or ONE LINE poem #4...

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Categories: present tense, funny,
Form: Monoku

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