Time
...Time can go by quickly when we’re having a good time
Or feel like an eternity when we’re trying to make a dime
In childhood days seemed to be so long and carefree
Not realizing as adults our days ...
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Categories:
timepieces, fate, life, loss, time,
Form: Rhyme
Eternal Illusion
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Written: May 05, 2024, For Jaymee Thomas Contest
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Incessant ticking of timepieces,
reverberating clatter of a mallet in motio...
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Categories:
timepieces, analogy, time,
Form: Free verse
Springs Arrival
...The trees lining the streets are filled with cherry blossoms
Mother Nature is letting us know that spring arrival is going to be awesome
Enjoying a walk along the breakwater bustling with people en...
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Categories:
timepieces, spring,
Form: Rhyme
No Beating the Clock
...I was an ambitious fine watchmaker, looking forward to sunshine tomorrows,
Like the remote edge of a fuchsia horizon, where gather racy, blue swallows.
I worked on clocks of all styles and sizes,...
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Categories:
timepieces, fantasy, imagery, life, meaningful,
Form: Couplet
Old Barnes Glimpsed From a Speeding Car
...The corner of my eye notes it
as my car speeds by,
eyesight pings it
momentarily, an image
looks back.
The outbuilding is vacant,
bathed in a sparrow and bat time
that flutters inside its ho...
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Categories:
timepieces, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Time
...Time
There is the essence of time in space, that we are not aware
There is a quality of time, that we wish we all could share
There may be times when you feel that time is on your side
Or time...
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Categories:
timepieces, today,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Final Blast of Contentment
...Papers everywhere with words of deception
Casting out the times own torrent
Lifting off the eaves of secured gates
Obviously written so long ago
Fine comb--untangles our misery
Leaving money o...
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Categories:
timepieces, angst, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Swingin On a Star
...After: Harlequin’s Carnival by Joan Miro, 1925.PD
After: Bing Crosby - Swinging On A Star (1944)
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems,
like notes that shape music. - Joan Miro
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Categories:
timepieces, allusion, art, beauty,
Form: Free verse
She's Here----She's Here
..."SHE'S HERE!!!....SHE'S HERE!!!"
This waiting is murder!........Even though I will be seeing her shortly.
Anticipation has already reduced me to well beyond that substance called jelly in th...
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Categories:
timepieces, for her, happiness, joy,
Form: Free verse
A Pocket Watch 1
...Tracking time has changed throughout the years
Improving how hours, minutes, seconds appear
Sundials, hourglasses, pendulums and more
Wall, wrist, mantle, waterproof - clocks galore
There i...
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Categories:
timepieces, culture, family, father son,
Form: Rhyme
Broken In Time
...broken timepieces
resist second-hand offers
to exact minutes
from hostile hours, confused by
conflicts in digital mode...
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Categories:
timepieces, time,
Form: Tanka
Old Watches
...Old Watches
by Edmund Siejka
Of all the watches at the mall
It’s the old watches I like best
Antiques hidden in the back
Away from the brash newcomers
Rolex and Tag Heuer.
When I wa...
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Categories:
timepieces, life,
Form: Narrative
Timepieces
...~Timepieces~
(Rhyme)
The clock of life never ceases at all,
God is everywhere, and anywhere with you and me;
And we don't really know, when we will hear His call,
So let's enjoy ...
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Categories:
timepieces, life, time,
Form: Rhyme
Time
...TIME
passes
timepieces
sundials, water clocks
known relics of past time
timers supplant the hourglass
“I-phones put the wristwatch on hold.”
revised June 21, 2014, Spring Equinox...
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Categories:
timepieces, time,
Form: Verse
Aftertaste
...Walk me down these nostalgic streets
And laugh and make me wander
Make me feel the bliss that dwells in me
Before it tears asunder
For I have seen you often whilst passing by
These shops and b...
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Categories:
timepieces, nostalgia, people, placesme, me,
Form: Rhyme
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