It seems but short moments ago
That my three sons began to grow
and Time became my better friend
It's deceit then I did not know
Youthful time is a treat to spend
and shove Old Time across a bend
Forever would last, we would see
Moments and days that never end
Days now heavy with memories
yet time continues it's mad tease
My boys still run in summer's sun
For I can dream the things I please
Now time and I forget to run
But on my wish list, Number One
I'd sit and watch my boys at play
And Yesterday would still be fun
He slipped away? Or did they take him?
Stranger things have happened, have they not?
Why do I ask so many questions of myself?
Or am I asking questions of him?
I could make statements.
He went off of his own accord.
This is one of his stranger happenings.
I have to ask so many questions.
So, this could be a question.
Or is it a statement?
This is why I ask what I should say.
Am I happier quashing questions?
Is this so? Yet surely not.
They took him. He slipped away.
Did he slip away?
Or did they take him?
(placed 15 Jul 2025)
I don't leave all at once, but slip away like ink running off old pages,
Like a song you swore you'd never forget, until you do.
It starts small—your name becomes foreign on my lips,
Your messages remain unread, not out of anger, but from a strange helplessness.
You don't ask why, maybe you don't notice, or maybe you just let me go,
And that hurts the most—not that I faded, but that you watched.
You let me dissolve into silence, to become a shadow of a thought,
To lose the weight of my name, to become an echo lost in the wind.
Tell me—did you ever truly see me, or did I disappear from the start?
A silent dance of shadows among memories, each step a whisper of goodbye,
In this labyrinth of silences and echoes, I wonder if I was ever more,
Than a blurred dream in a universe where words scatter like leaves.
We remain prisoners of our own illusion, searching for meaning in the void between us,
A void that deepens with each day that passes without us touching,
And in this silence, questions dance like stars in an endless sky,
I wonder in the quiet of the night if I was ever more than a faded dream.
When did it all slip away,
How did the world and life I
Remembered simply go
Astray?
Friends that shared memories with me are now all gone ,
Leaving me here to sit and wonder why was
I left to carry on.
Carry on to what and why I do not know,
And left me standing here a stranger
In a strange land not knowing where to go.
I ask you please show me the way,
Bring me out if the darkness
So once again see the light of day.
I ask you only show to me,
The path out if this darkness and to my new reality.
I let it slip away.
With every fleeting day,
The countdown ticks,
and the woodworm picks.
I let it slip away.
We deplete into decay.
A heartbreak needs a fix.
Sticky roll pops claim extra licks.
I let it slip away.
Vowed to repay them that day.
I value how you play your tricks.
Yet, what kicks, it sticks!
I let it slip away.
Bear your wings and fly.
Can you hold a rucksack of bricks?
Rose ovens heat furnace skips.
I let it slip away.
When the boys play
City life pops, spills, and kicks.
till they're three ruby clicks.
Written: May 2nd, 2023
I let it slip away
That interrupted zoom meeting
Because of night loardshedding
On last saturday.
I let it slip away
My computer went off immediately
My phone lost network automatically
As power went away.
I let it slip away
I was so confused trying to find connection
Here and there to come back in supervision.
I failed and my stress gone away on that day.
April 02/2023
Written for poetry contest
sponsored by John lawless
I let it slip away . . .
a beautiful beautiful day.
I’d looked out my window and seen
blue sky and grass so green.
Then back in bed I lay
as I slept the morning away.
At last I awoke but I had
my chores! I felt so bad.
Why in bed did I stay
and not go outside just to play?
By the time my chores were all done,
much dimmer was the sun.
Oh, why did I delay
enjoying this best day of May?
With joy I could have been biking
or on a trail hiking.
Wild flowers in array
I could have plucked for a bouquet.
In a cool stream I could have splashed
or through a meadow dashed.
No, it is not okay.
the glory of May to betray.
Procrastinating is my sin.
Sun could have kissed my skin.
With contriteness I say
I let a great day slip away.
May 1, 2023
N/A poem
*Happy May Day everyone! This poem is an experiment with a new rhyming form I created. It consists of couplets with alternating syllable counts of 6/8 and 8/6. The 6/8 couplets are monorhymes.
I let it slip away
I remember the days we had together
Now our relationship weathers
I wish I had just one more minute
but I let it slip away
Come back for I miss you
but I can't bring myself to renew
when I look into your eyes
my heart lies
I miss you all to much
I regret letting it slip away
Your eyes are like embers
small and weak
but when I first met you
the embers grew into flames
Big strong and proud
But now there is no strong fire
the embers have died down
Now all that remains
Is the ashes of the fire that one stood proud
I remember the day I let it slip
I have noting to say but I'm sorry
Come back for I need you to carry on
I let it slip away.
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I let it slip away poetry contest Sponsor: John lawless
5/30/23
I let it slip away
Off into the blue
Over the horizon
Flying out of view
Feeling kinda sad
I turned away and left
The closing of a chapter
Leaving me bereft
I find endings very tough
So I avoid them if I can
But I must farewell this fantasy
Goodbye... retirement plan
30 April 2023
Let It Slip Away
I let it slip away
as a glimpse of memory
pierces my heart
flashing like lightning
when I met you perchance
after an era.
Momentarily wept silent.
Reminiscences rippled
and faded away
leaving no trace.
I let it slip away
forever.
04/29/23
I let it slip away, that final day-
with judging soon to come, it waited there.
This prize I'd captured in my special way
went flying instantly into the air.
I'd held it in my heart for a long time-
until my mind reworked it, as should be.
My interaction led my soul to climb
beyond the vision that had come to me.
What would become of my creative task-
would it be rated as I wished it might?
This question stirred inside as I would ask-
was it not worthy on the judgment site?
My poem- win or fail- did not remit;
I let it slip away- deleted it.
April 28, 2023
Contest: I Let It Slip Away
Sponsor: John Lawless
I let it slip away.
Regretful till this day,
I kept your love at bay
and let it slip away.
I had your undying love and true devotion,
passionate romance in arduous motion.
I was so careless with my own emotion
…I let it slip away
I pushed you away at each chance
choosing an unassuming stance.
Because of my adverse circumstance
…I let it slip away
You gave your everything for decades
yet I never acknowledged your grades
and in my pathetic childish charades
…I let it slip away
Now I’m wiser, in hopeless remorse
as my life has run its convoluted course.
Without your steadfast love in full force
…I let it slip away
I let it slip away,
That silver fish I caught,
For life-freedom, it sought
On that Summer Friday,
I let it slip away,
That lovely fish I caught,
For it struggled distraught,
Gazing in sad dismay,
I let it slip away,
That fleshy fish I caught,
For with such strength it fought,
I could not make it stay,
I let it slip away,
That shining fish I caught,
For my line was pulled taut
And about to give way,
I let it slip away,
My feet slipped, I was caught
And fell into that spot -
Fishing is not child's play.
26th April 2023
For John Lawless' "I let it slip away" contest
I let it slip away,
It did not have a chance
It was a struggle
That put up quite a dance
It was a beautiful morning,
All was fresh and new
And from the moment that I got up
I was out to get you,
I have looked carefully,
Every time I pass
To see if you are visible
As I walked across the grass
On my way to work
Longing for the weekend
When I will have the time
To polish up my skills
That will help to make you mine.
Saturday comes at last,
And it looks like it may rain
I will still look for you
Although this weather is a pain
I set the bait
And I was feeling excited.
I found it hard to wait,
Until we were united.
You tugged at my heartstrings,
As I saw you swimming in the water
And as I looked
My skills began to falter
The plans that I made
To catch you today
Quickly fell apart
As I let you slip away
As I see that tasty fish
Swimming away from me
I will not be bringing it
Home to eat for tea.
I Let It Slip Away
I let it slip away, my freedom said goodbye,
as I sat in a cell of abuse pain and neglect;
life is blasé I can’t conger up a why.
You were a tyrant and I wanted to die,
as I start to slip away like an object;
I let it slip away, my freedom said goodbye.
Couldn’t save me so I didn’t even try,
my soul feels like it has been shipwrecked;
life is blasé I can't conger up a why.
I’m floating to the unknown, can’t fly,
there’s no place in sight to intersect;
I let it slip away, my freedom said goodbye.
In the beginning, you were a nice guy,
you morphed into one void of intellect;
life is blasé I can't conger up a why.
Time stands still the twilight hour is nigh,
as I float without hope, I disconnect.
I let it slip away, my freedom said goodbye,
life is blasé I can’t conger up a why.
April 26, 2023
Contest: I Let It Slip Away
Sponsor: John Lawless
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