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Time Surface Poems

These Time Surface poems are examples of Surface poems about Time. These are the best examples of Surface Time poems written by international poets.


Premium Member The Pain Below the Surface
I see him
relentlessly busy
running in every which direction
scattered to the winds
anything to evade
the constant chatter of his mind



AP: 2nd place 2022

Posted on November 26, 2022...

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Categories: surface, hurt, pain, stress, time,



Premium Member A Magic Iron
Because of poverty 
My family could only offer an iron
Using burning coal
It looked big, heavy and clumsy
To keep the coal burning hot
I had to fan...

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Categories: surface, childhood, confidence, pride,

Don't
Don't try to take another away from their purpose. 
You will lose every time and that is only the surface. 

If you both don't align...

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© Rita Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surface, america, black african american,

Premium Member Dancing On the Surface of Our Clocks
Each child soon cocooned within their histories tomb. 
Every painter, poet, sculptor shaping lives one action at a time.

Artists born of feathered movement,
each angel’s gesture...

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Categories: surface, time,

Harboring Dreams Beneath the Surface
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Silence, on waves of our tide motioned heartbeats,
cascading rhythms, a smooth metronome
Keeping this time inside blue water passions,
beneath the surface, the feelings we’ve grown

Hidden so...

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Categories: surface, good night,



Premium Member On the Surface
Looking out the window
I feel the distance
the gap between them and me

They carry on as they would
were I not around

On either side of this pane
life...

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Categories: surface, angst, freedom, introspection, life,

Premium Member Revelations Surface
*Inspired by a photo.  (I am not sure why the photo is showing on my end, but not showing here for some)

Water is like...

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Categories: surface, beauty, inspirational, introspection, peace,

Breaking the Surface
Way beneath the ground, the subway
Rolls and rumbles on the track,
All the cars equipped with brightness
The surrounding tunnels lack.

We take all of that for granted
As...

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Categories: surface, new york, travel,

Premium Member A Colder Surface In Your Space
You saw what I saw
You saw what I did
I’m not asking for applause
I’m not asking for you to forgive

You witness through the night
And in the...

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Categories: surface, cry, dark, farewell, fear,

Premium Member Church Perfect Surface
He feels the best of him slipping away
A sip a drip at a time
When will the he and him align
What is he missing
He can't stop...

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Categories: surface, angst, christian, conflict, fantasy,

Deterge the Surface
J-anuary thirtieth morn
H-as broken early Monday; 
E-vening shadows disappear; 
R-aindrops stay away.
M-isty Sunday airway
I-s nowhere in sight; 
E-ven the haze is gone into the blackest...

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Categories: surface, birthday,

What Needs To Happen For World Peace To Surface
Adjustments of Evil minds
Think communicate
Add friendship being relate
The bottom line being the front line must be the focus of change Destination to reach a new...

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Categories: surface, america, black african american,

Surface Underneath
Underneath the surface
Thus, T'is what I've seen
As a kid I used to think skies were always blue
A child I was, so my favorite color was...

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Categories: surface, blue, emotions, life, self,

Deeper Than the Surface
They locked me in a glass cage
Stare at me with their clipboards
Look at me like I am a freak show
Observe me like an animal
Treat me...

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Categories: surface, absence, anger, anxiety, pain,

Under the Surface
At the end of sanity I stand here misunderstood
Wondering if my life will improve or if I should
Let my inner feelings and fear come true
It...

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© Sean Trott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surface, depression,


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