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Transience Poems - Poems about Transience

Premium Member Half-life of old friends
Mom writes polemics, when a cause grasps her heart She's a good soul and wants to do her part A journal took one, so she emailed it to friends Then found that old age had brought many to their ends Sometimes children answer back, or maybe a weary wife They thank her kindly, talk about the...

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Categories: transience, death, death of a
Form: Lyric
Premium Member As The Last Petal Falls
I recline with my cherry tree musings… a fountain of blossoms cherub cheek complected rise and curve from the ground up into a heaven and cloud scene to spread in splendor a festoon of blooms like cumulus puffs plucked from above and placed in tufts to fluff graceful branches plush with clusters the color of sunrise...

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Categories: transience, appreciation, beauty, flower, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ephemeral Drift
Version #1 Petals float down like dreams, landing gently on the ground, vanishing before we rise. Version #2 Petals descend like whispers, landing quietly on the earth, lost before we open our eyes....

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Categories: transience, 9th grade,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Short-Lived
In the quiet of early morning, a dewdrop clings to the edge of a leaf, a fragile globe reflecting the first light. It trembles, a breath away from falling, a brief testament to the night's embrace. So too, our joys, gathered like rain in the cups of our hands, slipping through fingers no matter how tightly closed. The laughter of children fades into...

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Categories: transience, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Haunting Transience of Reality
petals temporary beauty that perishes in advance of fall, end began foretold...

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Categories: transience, appreciation,
Form: Cinquain



Love Is But Like Autumn
And that love is but like Autumn Death in guise of colors awesome! But I saw her drawing guarded, Flying with love I more wanted. Doomed were the promises of eternity And that love is but like Autumn Failed I to see the imminent, Love like leaves is cursed to stray. I am still holding onto you Though the leaves told that I...

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Categories: transience, allegory, analogy, autumn, break
Form: Quatern
Passing On
Another old friend has passed on, May he rest whereever he's gone. Once you're a year above eighty thoughts of life's transience are weighty. but here were good times to think upon. Old friends, I'll see you anon....

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Categories: transience, death of a friend,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Wind Is Pounding In My Heart
'wind is pounding in my heart' It tears across the steppes and plain, it guides my mind and eases pain Whithin the yurt, upon the road, it whets my mind; eases the loads I've rode it's Breast ten thousand times,' with banner high the yak tails nine Its of my blood, throughout my race, we hold it near'in flood;...

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Categories: transience, appreciation, assonance, beauty, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Transience
Do you ever think about how fast your life goes by, we do the same things all day, experiencing the same people, the same places, and the same problems and there are more and more problems and you feel like you're drowning? These problems are permanent and cannot be solved. Have you ever had to put up with the loss...

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Categories: transience, anxiety, cry, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
This World of Dew
THIS WORLD OF DEW This world? Moonlit dew flicked from a crane's bill. —Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Seventy-one? How long can a dewdrop last? —Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Dewdrops beading grass-blades die before dawn; may an untimely wind not hasten their departure! —Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch This world of dew is a...

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Categories: transience, age, art, autumn, bereavement,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Alive
For billions of years I did not exist. Then I existed for a little while. Soon I will return to not existing for the rest of time....

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Categories: transience, creation, death, faith, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Metaphors of Transience
tapping into the eternal yearning for wholeness without boundaries contemplations in a quest for synthesis drawing whispers irregular overlapping ...

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Categories: transience, art, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Death Valley
What lives deep within? Which thoughts, what vitality? For from these must we emerge, As there is little without Except the baleful wind Whining across bleached dunes. Death is a void of expression Stark, barren, arid. Mere rocks scoured by flash flood Twisted and gnarled; Gravestones of salt extrusion From emergent times. What life there is in Death Valley Lives underground and waits For night or brief rain; But then...

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Categories: transience, death, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Transience
Headed out early this morning walking the dogs with a blue sky overhead but a bank of cumulonimbus clouds building to the northwest with a faint shard of a rainbow base hanging on that horizon. By the end of our walk, the clouds had moved east and we returned home in a light sun-shower. He came to bed late, settled in next to her...

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Categories: transience, life, weather,
Form: Free verse
October Transience
OCTOBER TRANSIENCE Bipolar month again unsettled ever changing Summer’s mellow imitation defies winter’s grasp Days of transient golden treasure to be cherished Light and dark competing now in passing equipoise Summer’s mellow imitation defies winter’s grasp Sun now heads for southern apogee on Capricorn Light and dark competing now in passing equipoise Time’s echoed cycle of the seasons shall continue Sun now heads for...

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Categories: transience, seasons,
Form: Pantoum

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