Running Out Time Poems

The hourglass becomes resplendently empty

As the sand flows through with their kempty

Grains, dry as a corn shuck, flow

Seemingly they know

Time's reduced

Woe!

Earth lost boost

It's feeling the...

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If I could go back in time,
Where would be my first stop?
Should I choose a familiar road,
Or seek out people and places unknown?

What could I...

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Have I finally truly said it all
running out of words
Thoughts and feelings too remote
my pen a blunted sword

The doors revolve and seasons change
as Winter calls...

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Passing Moments

The test of time, 
is given to every person on earth. 
It wears on us like rust on metal. 
It adds flavor as it...

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I’m running out of money,
but I’ve still got some time
and only just one question
…can you lend me a dime

My dollars spent on something
that quarters can’t...

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There’s plenty of time!
Times’s running out!
It sounds like time is a water spout

Time’s moving fast
Time’s moving slow
Does time really have somewhere to go?

Don’t waste time—Time...

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I
In this nation we buy airtime
Or Data for internet access, and texting
After church I see I'm low on airtime
And Data. From poems, I may seek...

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I'm running out of time, on this beautiful green earth.
I still feel so young, but it's many years since my birth.

Should I spend all my...

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we just didn't have enough time
even in the beginning we were rushed 
focused only on time running out 
leaving us out how we weren't fully
ready...

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My last foray into this arena
Had me living memories not wished to share
Here I am again, another visit
Into the elderly homes we wish not

A sunny...

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sand begins
to pour at birth

daily clocks
tick tock tick tock

sixty here, sixty there
seconds, minutes 

time keeper laughs
watching us closely

time is running 
we are frantic

too late now
no...

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Running out of time,
For What?
Who are you?
Do I know you?
No,

Is it only me who has these feelings?
Or,
Is it reciprocated?

Why don't you talk to me?
Why can't...

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While in my youth
I racked my brain 
to fill up Time

Taken aback 
By Time’s fast pace 
Once in my prime 

Dismissive still 
that Time ticks...

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2020
The sands are running out
falling just outside our grasp
seemingly out of reach,
distant and taunting as they pass.
Closing our eyes we mockingly mourn
these last whimpers of...

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A THIEF CALLED TIME

“Time is the thief you cannot banish”
Phyllis McGinley writer 1905-1978

All that live upon this earth
dwell on borrowed time,
for the human race every
single...

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