when time stands still, I'll know I've met my soulmate
An evening of total relaxation.
Soft music and an old classic novel.
A glass of wine awaits.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 2nd place 2026, 3rd place 2026
They say time heals all wounds,
But these wounds aren’t healing,
Time is supposed to ease the pain,
But pain is all I’m feeling.
Even though 3 months have passed,
I’m reminded of that Saturday,
When I said goodbye to you,
Time stood still that day.
We started out as strangers,
From strangers to best friends,
But how do we go back to being strangers?
I guess this is where our story ends.
Every time I see you,
I feel the pain that kills,
And I’m taken back to that day,
The day that time stood still.
I put you first,
Above my own needs,
But you drained me of my energy,
Just like a garden weed.
My hurt won’t heal,
And I’ve finally figured out how,
Because time does heal all wounds,
But time stands still now.
The Faded Garden Swing
If the flaked paint on the old swing
could speak, it would tell stories of
days long ago,
Of children's laughter and their bare,
muddy feet,
Of fireflies caught and imprisoned in
empty jam jars,
Like the fireflies, my memory flickers,
trying to recall who lived across the
street.
The faded swing’s rusty chains creaked
loudly under my weight, an old familiar
song,
And the scent in the air from the aged
honeysuckle, still going strong,
An old familiar perfume of yesteryear,
At this moment, suspended between
the then and now, time stands still.
Once the echoes of children’s giggles,
now a silent yard,
Images of scraped knees, loud cries
and a lemonade stall,
In the distance, the sound of an old
church bell rings,
Here, on this faded garden swing,
I sit in the past with the weight of
what was and of what can never be
again.
Now, shadows linger in silence,
Where children once soared with
dreams,
Oh, faded swing, a keeper of stories
of joy and pain,
You hold the essence where memories
remain,
At last, I am home, in the place where
time stands still.
It was a beautiful story,
I wish it was my own.
It makes me think of you,
so every now and then
I turn it on.
Was the first song we danced to,
it made us fall in love.
Now every time it plays
I see your face,
you’re all I think of.
Why does it seem true loves
are always kept apart?
Is it cruel fate,
a form of bait
that’s used to crush the heart?
Or is God to blame
for all this pain,
or maybe we’re just blind.
Well, I don’t really know...
I’m just missing you tonight.
But I still see you in my dreams,
and I still hold you in my arms.
Each time the little things bring
you back in my mind,
I find you’re still inside my heart.
So, I don’t care how long time goes on,
I’ll sit and wait til time stands still.
Where nothing ever can keep
us apart again.
If I have to wait until forever...
then I will.
There is nowhere I want to go
My time is starting to show
Tomorrow today
Nothing much to say
All seems the same
No one really to blame
Feel no burning flame
Leaning against an old tree
So much to see
Time standing still, so it would seem
A living dream
I am the only one here
Yet there is no fear
Not day nor is it night
The light
Somewhere in middle
So I play my fiddle
I am lost but do not want to be found
Just want to sit here on the ground
listening to the soothing sound
The feeling of my heart, as it beats
One lifes little treats
Time never yet started
Love never departed
Music is in the air
That is all I care
Days turn to night
Who needs a light
Time is on my side
Across the strings the bow does slide
An emotional rollercoaster I ride
Lost to the sound
I am bound
My heartbeat keeping time
I am one with this rhyme
Peace fills the void
Nobody to be annoyed
The moons now in the sky
Time moves on passing me by
hello everyone
I will respond to all soon
thank you
peace and blessings
"time stands still"
watching the warm fire
mesmerized by illumination
flames of reds yellows whites
within this picturesqueness
time stands still
not wanting to leave
dancing embers captivate
snuggled with love
and romanticisms
a hallmark stage breathes
quiet thoughts are clear
embracing such ornaments
that touch eyes and souls
harbored forevermore
still time stands still
SkyWatcher
12-05-23
The cell doesn’t tell me the time so I wait,
praying for numb-heavy hearts,
splintered shards of the mind
The saplings are growing into plants
and the plants are ageing into trees
They stand tall and stagnant
getting bored of the cool sea breeze
?Whiling away the days and nights
they strike a sense of emptiness
Dolce Far Niente ambience is spreading its wings
the dusk is taking all their hues, making them colourless
Soaring far and above the clouds of hollow thoughts
the mind draws a silver lining through them
Coruscating the dew on their surface
it runs a spark in their dormant roots and stems
They wait for the dawn to appear
bringing their charismatic life back
Complacent, they stand against the tide of time
rejoicing the present till it again turns black
The sparks in your eyes like I just struck a lighter
You're beautiful to me, a passionate fire starter
I wish you could see yourself through my eyes
Never again would you doubt you're a prize
Doubt me not, you are always worth fighting for
Our rights and wrongs we never need to keep score
Ever time is mutual opportunities to explore
To love each other like we've never felt before
When we walk together, your footsteps sync to the beats of my heart
Holding your palm laughing, talking, being each other's from our start
Feeling affectionate shallow passes through your hair
You're never again going to be alone, I am always there
When I am in your presence, our time stands still
You hold my heart closer than anyone else ever will
My brain fast forwards but my heart remains
With you, who have inspired me every day.
Years of acquaintance won’t go into drains:
Like a good aftertaste that’s here to stay,
An emptied glass is not the story’s end.
I still remember the times we first met:
From just a name on paper, oft mispenned,
To chance encounters never to forget.
Still and all, the tide rises, the tide falls —
We’re shooting stars whose paths crossed only to
Spread out as wandering and blazing balls,
Not knowing what our next pursuits will brew.
But I know this by heart: my fate line will
E’er mark this very night when time stands still.
Lengthy rolling clause...
The dawns-
acre's of clouds rotating the days on!
I'm in bins,
crushing scores as they collide-
romanticize these additions to the outer rims...
Our planets,
the sea's-
remaining culture's to be released.
I'm the pigment that can never show it's real live-
it's monicor...made up life.
I was away for a day,
came home to the thunderous rize...
Caught on well 'they said'-
but I stray diminutive,
command a rhye.
Bow song,
and imagined steady long,
the shore's attract nothing,
I sleep like I'm totally gone!
Reapers deny thy finds-
I eat them in song.
If it's never to light...I create pace of ...
time stands still
slow the pace of life
a howling silence
surreal as autumn tenor
all shades of grey
droop overhead
eyes soaking up
most somber thoughts
piano notes gather in the clouds
blaring echoes of solitude
as silver teardrops collect
in a hollow heart
AP: 2nd place 2020
Submitted on March 16, 2022 for contest A BRIAN STRAND 1090 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - RANKED 1ST
There is a time when everything stands still,
When life's biggest moments
Are up close and ever so real
You take my breath away with all your sex appeal
When your eyes meet mine its a really big deal
You really know how to make this man squeal
I was hoping that you would be interested
In just how I feel
Oh baby if you really knew
How much of a thrill you would fulfill
Life with you makes my heart feel so true
It's not possible for me to sing the blues
Not when my eyes are full of all of you
All of this because I'm so in love with you,
As your love surrounds all parts of me
I can foresee total reality
That sets our hearts free
To be on an amazing love journey
How all of this makes us feel
when time stands still
And everything is so real
This much we can agree
Together we are so happy to be
Living life's opportunities
It's crazy unreal how you make all of this feel
Life is one big chance that leads us
To that special romance
When our hearts begin to dance,
And time stands still
As we realize our life together is forever
And so very real
time I will wait for your call
You go by so fast you blink then it's all gone in a song
look to the past then dream of the day with you
remember at school time would go by so slowly
then at vacation it always went by so very fast
but time stands still when I'm with God
the day he visited me in Cape Cod
the way I comb my hair part it down the middle
at the basketball court when I dribbled down the middle
time will bite you in the ass
no one gets by on a free pass with whispers in the wind
Just hope time will certainly last
there is no time in the casino
with such a cheap thrill
time stands still
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