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Slip Through The Fingers Poems - Poems about Slip Through The Fingers

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...I think about the person I thought I would be by now, someone stronger, more fearless, more put-together. Someone who didn’t cry over things that happened years ago. Things that happened last week. M......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, 10th grade, beauty, death,
Form: Free verse
Blood in the Quiet
...Silence isn’t quiet — it’s the scream stuck in my throat, the venom dripping from broken teeth, the promise shattered on cracked floors. Your silence is a fist beating against my ribs, each u......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, august, betrayal, dark, hate,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I just hope time doesn’t hate me too, doesn’t judge me for the moments wasted
...I just hope time doesn’t hate me too, doesn’t judge me for the moments wasted, I never meant to waste the seconds, to let them slip through my fingers, I swear, I didn’t want to, but I was tired, t......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sands of Time
...you let love slip through your fingers where you once held the key now you're haunted with regret and have nowhere else to flee AP: Honorable Mention 2025......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, hurt, lost love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Ashes
...Let us start at the end because that is where it all began Ashes I clinched my fist because I did not want to let go I literally watched you slip through my fingers I cursed the day The day I lo......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, absence, bereavement, death, depression,
Form: Free verse



The Empty Vessel
...When love leaves, it isn’t a soft rain—it’s a thunderclap, splitting the sky, leaving you standing in the middle of a field with nothing but the echo of what should have been. You become the bro......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Runner
...b a n g b a n g! I couldn't believe I just fired some shots there she laid... belly up counting the dust dead as loneliness buried in silence trouble b o l d l y stared st......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, death, immigration, loneliness, murder,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Woman, wipe away your tears that flow like rain over the thirsty earth
...Woman, wipe away your tears that flow like rain over the thirsty earth, I see the depths of your soul, amidst fears that dance in the shadows, We will walk through battles, side by side, in silence......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Teary Eyed
...As the tears begin to fall, I try to keep standing tall, And pretend that I'm okay, But my face gives me away. My tears I no longer hold After what I've been told, This crying feels good to m......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, break up, cry, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It was always hard to understand you, like a maze without an exit and without meaning
...It was always hard to understand you, like a maze without an exit and without meaning, Your problems always flooded me, a continuous and relentless wave, Day by day a new challenge, a chaos in whic......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member what if
... I’m 15, young, but they keep telling me the future’s already here— whirring, buzzing, clicking. Machines thinking faster than us, AI, robots, tech everywhere, and I— I hate i......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, confusion, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member forget me
...Forget about me, like a dropped coin in the gutter, like a breath lost in the wind, let me slip through your fingers like sand in an hourglass. Forget me, like yesterday’s news, like a raind......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, confusion, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In a world of broken mirrors and half-forgotten dreams
...In a world of broken mirrors and half-forgotten dreams, The elites weave webs of augmented unrealities, keeping souls captive. In the vast labyrinth of the internet, fragments of truth mix With de......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Forget That I Love You
... Don't slip through my fingers daughter of mine I've quilted the stars of heaven for you and padded the moon with the gauze of the sun Don't look back at the web that you have weaved......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Planted Something New
...It’s the breath I need but can’t reach Arms extended as far as they can reach But the superhero is late this time and can’t save me Plan ahead they say so you can make time to smell the flower thi......

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Categories: slip through the fingers, confidence, dream, faith, growth,
Form: Rhyme

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