Short Time Slips Away Poems

The falling leaves of autumn bring sadness as age creeps in and time slips away....

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With each heart beat, time slips away
              
                   So live for the moment, celebrate today...

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...and time slips away,

                just the way it always had,

                          through times good and bad......

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While living our lives in daily sequence,
Time slips away without recompense.


8/25/12
For Susan's "Time - single couplet only" contest...

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time
slowly
can slip
between
open fingers
always passing


HONORABLE MENTION
written September 4, 2021
Invented Forms Study - Joybell 
Contest - All Poetry...

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Time slips away
Another day


Words left unsaid
No new verse paid


A deeper lull
In a lost lull


Gone with the wind
Unheard, unseen




Leon Enriquez
06 December 2017
Singapore...

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The whirling fan stirs 
The soft warm air
And lulls to sleep 
The hazy mind

The clock in the corner 
Ticks on and on 
The heating vent sighs
Closing heavy lidded eyes
AS time slips away
And says good bye...

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Running with the breeze
Gray cat and blue butterflies
Orange sunset skies
Zest meets curiosity
just to hear the ocean roar

Evening melodies
drift far on the floral air
as time slips away
A cool cat is at the shore
thwarted in purple shadows...

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Time

Who can explain love
When two souls entwine
Does time diminish it or does it survive
So patiently waiting as time slips away
Life journey is fading
So, what do you say?
Do we play by the rules or say rules be damned?
Time is a fleeting, lets have what we can


BJ Cuber...

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I try to sleep more.
It's easier that way,
as time slips away.
Allowing me to grow old,
yet remain eternally youthful.
A sort of living death.
As I inch my way towards the awful 
imprisonment called conformity.
As I attempt to resurrect that
which society tries to eliminate
each day of my life....

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when feeling isn't enough to hold it together
when words linger unspoken on crisp air
when miles separate and distance grows
when love songs fall on a deaf heart
when your arm drops after the last dance
when time slips away with your last chance
is there nothing you will do?
or will it all just go?...

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Thoughts fade like night into day.
Memories change as time slips away.
Friends come and some go astray.
But there's no more looking back for me today.
Because I've seen how time can slip away.
Looking backwards you just can't see today.
So I move on in this world anyway.
It's all messed up, but I'll find my way....

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Holding hands
looking into each other's eyes
miles away
worlds away from this world

ah love
that potent elixer that flows in veins
making the recipient
a seeker of drug induced nirvana

Holding hands
as time slips away like a quiet thief
ah love
that molten simmering that threatens
to overwhelm 
ah love...

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The bell is ringing.
Can you hear it?
It calls for us, do not fear it.
As the seashore calls the wave,
Our time slips away,
Be brave, the Reaper is coming,
The drummer is drumming.
Death is near; sometimes we can taste it.
Be thankful for remaining time and don’t waste it.
The bell is ringing,
Can you hear it?
It rings for us....

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whispering softly
as time slips away
looking for meaning
a reason to stay

lost in a memory
torn by a dream
wishing tomorrow
was all that you deem

finding no answers
within empty thought
taking and giving
and living distraught

never a question
without rationale
no simple expression
while living in hell

written 10.22.2016...

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Time slips away
In a slow ooze,
Autumn walk strays
Like a slow snooze.


Here steps we trace
On foot path way,
Chilly breeze glaze
This autumn day.


Shop for some fare
Of food we like,
Select with care
For taste we dyke.


In a sure feed
We find our way,
Let flavours speed
Our mellow day.




Leon Enriquez
06 May 2018
Singapore...

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Tick tock, tick tock,
 strikes the old clock.

Boom, boom, boom!
 roar the sounds of cannons.

Roll, humanity's ship, roll,
 cast your net, drag the troll.

Unending curse of history
 marches to the same folly.

Tick tock, tick tock,
 strikes the old clock.

Boom, boom, boom!
 roar the sounds of cannons.

Time slips away, drifting by,
 same ending, innocents die!...

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Up in the morning, the bluebirds were singing,
Then off to church, as the bells were ringing,
A pastel spring bloomed the peach moments away,
And the morning star shone on an azure pathway!

Luscious Sunday dinner, conversing and laughter,
On the lazy days, sweet time slips away faster!
Afternoon on the porch, with family and friends,
Lolling in the gold sunshine, sunset always ends....

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Days wander
Time does fly
Life goes by
In a blink of an eye

Time slips away
Moments fade
We sit and reflect
On memories 
We've made

Don't wait for tomorrow
Live for today
Don't let opportunities
Slip away

Make each moment count
Live , laugh and love
Ponder every moment
As a blessing from up above

In a blink of an eye 
Life fades away
Don't wait for tomorrow
Live for today!...

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Dark bright Full of hours of midnight
Casting shards hard and dark 
into futures past nothing 
will last time slips away
fast casting thoughts 
back as the plate cracks 
Shatters all crumbles to dust 
broken at last in desolation’s
aftermath as night gathers
in her past dark light of a new moon
in the wee hours morn 
after night comes 
from the east dusky winds 
full of futures past comes...

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Years of laughter Years of tears
Blended together to form this life
Many dreams were dreamt 
Many desires yearned 
Some fulfilled 
Some blew away like dust
How the time slips away 
Passing before the eyes 
Soon memories will be all that remain
Some pleasant 
Some heart-rending 
They weave together to form this life
Life goes on through those touched by this life
Sweet memories of this life...

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Live wise goodwill
As glimpses fill


Here with calm joy
Watch for kind ploys


Toy with rich jest
As love floods fest


Zest knows each chime
Where silence rhymes


Time slips away
In circles grey


Meet if you must
Let truth move trust


Goodwill knows peace
In lovely lease


Seek in deep craft
Writes in crisp draft


Tale within tale
As love unveils





Leon Enriquez
12 January 2018
Singapore...

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Today i feel low, i dont know why.
Today i feel low, could hang my head and cry.
Today i am feeling like there is no hope.
Today i am finding  that it's hard to cope.

I looked for you upon my dreams, my eyes so blurred i couldn't see.
I felt the pain that passes by , my thoughts  so deep i wonder why.

Today i'm lost and all alone.
Today i can't even pick up the phone.what is this life ? What does it mean ? Time slips away with us inbetween....

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Time slips away
Briskly and fast,
Change comes to slay
On time at last.


Touch feels forlorn
Ooze of sad tears,
Dusk forfeits morn
Borne by mad fears.


Change kills old joy
As brisk strokes fall,
Fate cancels ploy
To flush yet all.


Note end season
Where age plays tag,
No good reason
Can halt last lag.


Time for time here
To swallow slack,
Massive the fear
That follows lack.




Leon Enriquez
27 September 2018
Singapore...

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Life is like an hour glass
 glued to the table
as time slips away
memories begin to fade
There are no redoes
The hour has passed
The sand keeps flowing
Life keeps on going
So hold your head high
and seize the day
Life is your stage
The show has begun
Minute by minute 
the hourglass goes
Yesterday is gone
and now is the time 
to jump on up 
and let yourself shine
for you may never know
when your turn is complete
and it is your turn 
to take a seat!...

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