Short Past Tense Poems

Scent upon a breeze
Blows so softly past my cheek
Memories invade...

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The only difference 
between you and me is...
You thought of me sometimes
While I...

I think of you always...

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A popular Biblical quote
Researchers now claim no one wrote
It may be a fable
That Cain convinced Abel
The past tense of smite is just "smote!"...

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A woman arrived early from Minsk
Hoping to get a nod from the prince
His procession went by
She never caught his eye
Now her fondness for him is past tense...

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I hear the voices
Voices of past tense
In my mind, heart, and soul
Time
Heals
Time
Covers every thing
Past
Present
Future
NOW!
Can u hear me calling?...

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I suppose the crows that rest on the fence, of past tense
Gather their meals from the lives they steal,
I happen to know that one of those still circling crows,
is owed my soul...

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is loss
possible
if one never

had

is having
being held in 
the past tense

while future
presence
presents

still have colorful
paper adorned
and tied by a

bow...

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Don't worry now about past tense,
It's gone, passe'~ no longer hence.
Forget all those words left unsaid,
moments still waiting, books unread.
The future will come, enticed or not
Enjoy the days time has brought....

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Billy
Written: by Tom Wright
2/9/2016

I once had a Billy Goat, past tense,
That feeding made very little sense.
So I sold him of course,
And had little remorse,
For I couldn’t keep him in the fence
...

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I cannot thank in past tense-
     knowing care has not ceased
     that this moment is not leased
But granted freely to me.

A fleeting moment already gone
     must be in my thanksgiving
     consumed, unmindful, in living....

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Siren,

your fluid
hymn lures
me past tense 
gray gulls

who eye me, 
anxious 
for my safe
return

They circle,
keening...

and the tide
moves to
free me of
               my moorings

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

May 13, 2019...

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End play
Prompts say


Dig deep
Boom sleep


Sure blast
Run fast


Blunt brief
Hurt grief


Dream drifts
Spice sifts


Last call
Purge gall


Past tense
Moves sense


Now trend
Grim end




Leon Enriquez
26 October 2015
Singapore...

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i heard from the president
news of the desent
of the present
demise of the enemy
no longer will he be
a sigh of diplomacy
or any sigh of false liberty
they got that SOB
dead in Pakistani
osama been laden
the scurge of history




("been" as in past tense)...

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Severed starlight, brief lanterns

Truncate tingles, sugar burns

pen puzzling in oily ink

Dark dots on papyrus slink

Metre measure on tongue tip

Riddling rhymes gaining their grip

Cursive verses in past tense

---
Trying a new form tonight. Hope you enjoy...

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Words curl
Oomph swirls


Taste truth
Line proof


Joy comes
Freak sums


Note nice
Splash spice


Veer then
Not when


Where here
Prize near


Seize sense
Past tense


Be kind
Free mind


Go tell
Forge spell




Leon Enriquez
07 June 2016
Singapore...

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Listen to poem:

I've seen that face, I see in crowd
I know that new place, on arrival
I've felt all this familiarity
I know, I know this being
has all been there before.
Past lives, past sense, 
past tense, become alive
in present tense,
evoked by the yearning
for context, meaning
in the empty void....

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F or  my old mistakes
O r  my present ones
R eleasing them...letting 
go
G iving them up
i nviting new 
experiences in
V iewing  my mistakes 
as past tense
E migrating into the  
future
N ot lingering with the 
past
E limating self pity
S aving myself from hurt
S o i forgive,that i may 
live...

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The past tense of 
        the new verb, 'you-tube'*
           when it's all gone ~ 'used tube?'**



               July 17, 2020
          ~ Gary Grammarian




*As in, "Hey! Do you ever you-tube those 
            cool clips I always tell you about?"

** ... Years later: "I used-tube, man."...

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Politicians 
Congressman, Senators, Mayor's, Governors 
In city,  states presently 
Now and in the past tense 
Yesterday's voted in governing 
The land while in the voting booth 
We pencil in our choices 
Who will lead us


2/18/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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A
Brilliant
burst of light
dawns a new day
The present moment
hides the treasure of life
Yesterday is now past tense
The future is beyond our reach
Sunrise breathes refreshed expectations
as we rise to meet the hope that it holds
God's mercies are new each day we awake
Believe in the promise the new day offers you...

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A catch in the throat
And a tear in my eye
The strains of the Last Post plays every note
The jets in missing man formation fly by

Thoughts of those lost in battle
Are harder to imagine without experience
The old veterans know of the war rattle
As the World Wars of last century fade to past tense.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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The word for what they did past tense
And all just to escape your sense

Next the word for where some live
Wolves and foxes must find or dig
For neither friend nor foe will give

Last what is not revealed 
When a lie is told or lips are sealed

You should be worthy of my trust 
But combining all found answers is a must...

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OVERNIGHT

beautiful 
past tense
no language
living our
limited lives
misreading 
words and feelings 
personally
refined

so let’s bed down 
in a drawer 
overnight laughing 
hysterically
at the start
of this new year

exiled in candle-lights
warm teardrop flames



© Kim van Breda—31 December 2015...

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Twas the night before Christmas

Teddy
warm
and
soft,

timeless
hold
eased
Nick's
impatience
gay
hunger
towards

believing
even

festive
ornaments,
reindeer,
elf.

Christmas
holidays
raise
incandescent
sentiment
towards
many
alit
souls.


12/15/2022

a·lit v.
A past tense and a past participle of alight1....

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ANOTHER YEAR GONE BY,
ANOTHER CHAPTER IN PAST TENSE;
THERE WERE THINGS THAT I ACHIEVED
AND THINGS THAT CAME TO AN END.

I DONT MISS WHAT HAS GONE
I CHERISH WHAT I'VE LEARNT,
IN THIS JOURNEY OF LIFE 
I WELCOME THE NEW YEAR.

WHERE I ANTICIPATE VICTORIES,
AND I DONT FEAR SUCCESS;
I WISH MYSELF A JOYOUS YEAR,
AND THE SPIRIT TO WIN THE BEST!...

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