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Time Today

...Time Today
	
Time 
does not behave 
as expected in this place 
I find myself. 
The very thought of a clock
on the wall is somehow... 
profane against the moment. 
Things have slowed down, 
...

Categories: speeded up, analogy, angel, community, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Like Lightning Speed

...".... could not stop for death- he kindly stopped for me-

               the carriage held just ourselves and immortality."   

                                    Quote by _ Emily Dickinson

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Categories: speeded up, life,
Form: Free verse

Harvest

...He sang seven songs of freedom
Whilst his cat danced a jig
And his monkey rode side saddle
On this pot bellied young pig
And the people of the village
All looked at him in awe
For none had ever...

Categories: speeded up, fantasy, future, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Leaves

...Whispers as the trees gently swayed,
Each leaf having their own story to tell,
Millions of voices quietly Jabbering,
Incomprehensible to human ears
They prattled to each other,
Sometimes as peop...

Categories: speeded up, poems,
Form: Personification

Misapprehension

...Misapprehension

On my way to lunch
Drove the wrong way
Turned and followed the car`s
Silhouette
In front of me
Speeded up to join it 
The car caught up with its
Illusion
And became whole a...

Categories: speeded up, art, bangla, beautiful, bible,
Form: Bio

While Caesar Watches For Brutus Part One

...The world is so mechanical
It is so scientific 
It's getting to be so-so difficult
Everything works at a fingers touch
Everything is speeded up too much
Neon lights the night
Smog darkens the sunligh...

Categories: speeded up, fun, humorous, life, satire,
Form: Rhyme

Birthday Blues

...When I was a child my birthdays came
As seldom near as never.
While now it seems they’ve speeded up
And are coming at me ever.

I’m sorry to be such a jerk;
I really need your shoulder.
I’m bu...

Categories: speeded up, funny, me,
Form: Light Verse

Life In the Slow Lane

...Life in the Slow Lane

By Elton Camp

If you live past sixty, things slow down
So that it takes a lot longer to get around

And another thing that you will find, too
In turning out work fast,...

Categories: speeded up, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Reporting Live On the Soup - Alaska

..."Phew! got here in time to catch The Glacier Discovery Train. This journey is to be seen
to be believed. I am in Anchorage, Alaska. I am so out of breath running to the station.
Right, that's the f...

Categories: speeded up, history, nature, placesjourney, good
Form: Narrative

Madman Chronicles

...Staggered by the virus burning through the city veins,
Stop motion, speeded up, the slam of distant trains,
Rattled through the concrete as forgotten people die,
Howling jets of power chords go cr...

Categories: speeded up, death, life, people, places,
Form: Verse