Turn Back Poems

my eyes turn back

I …

have courted luck in countless ways
against ragged judgments and self-umbrage
I still draw breaths, counted
and the mirror has been charitable
most I meet deem me forty
(I’m not about to correct them)
my visage betrays scant little of the
darkness and damage within
oh, it will one day chase me down -
no doubt soon enough
but I feign my teens in

Gripe Sound

What the world thinks about me-
It doesn't matter;
But in my soul, I have stutter
It might think me the cheater 
But I never be an Ivy creeper!!

I have no friends-
I am trying to be in trend;
To show the world, I may not believe God
But it doesn't mean I never worshipped lord 
It may be my attraction

In the depths of my wandering thoughts, I turn back to 1989

In the depths of my wandering thoughts, I turn back to 1989,
A time of uninterrupted innocence, a veil of unknowing that covered my mind,
Floating in a sea of uncertainty, where understanding was but an echo,
For everything was meticulously crafted, down to the last detail,
By those who took power and destroyed Romania completely.
Forty years of life

Paradise may be that moment when we turn back to the past

Paradise may be that moment when we turn back to the past,
And discover that its beauty existed despite our presence,
A time when our departure reveals the splendor, hidden beneath the whirls of shadows,
We wandered through the labyrinth of life, and now, a light pierces the clouds of melancholy.
In the alleys of memories, our steps were

If Only I Can Turn Back Time

If only I can turn back 
The time,
I will gladly do. And 
rewrite the love letter 
I gave to you, beside the beach 
where we had our last  
and final kisses. 
If only I knew soon enough that 
everything would quickly turn
a ho-hum sea,
My worries; I would have 
set ablaze
And hold you, so tight,

Turn Back Time

Do you ever wish you could turn back the clock?
Or maybe, stop time altogether?
As the seconds tick by, do you ever think,
In this moment, it’s now or never?
Do you ever wish you could go back to a certain hour?
Or maybe, a particular day?
As the pendulum sways, do you ever think,
I’m in the here and now,

Turn Back the Clock

When I was young 
    they spit at us
      hurled rocks 

  Now they murder us 
    Let's turn back the clock

If I Could Turn Back Time

If I could turn back time
By Michelle Morris
11/12/2022

Your very first kiss was your first kiss goodbye
I never knew it, I focused on your lies
Caught up in the moments; those rarified, joyous times
I lived like I was a king, and you were my queen sublime

Oh, if I could turn back time, I wonder what I'd do
Could

One Day He Will Turn Back

You should build a wall around your heart they told her
You are too trusting, too open, too vulnerable, naïve
She laughed thinking of a wall like that.

She was a Pollyanna, a Julie Andrews, Snow White.
She would have lived with the Seven Dwarfs gladly,
Or entered an old codger’s house to hang prisms.

Her open light was a beacon,

If I Could Turn Back Time

Oh, to ride on your shoulders again,
a giant, a hero, a prince amongst men.
I'd be safe in the warmth of your crooked smile,
whilst, all the while, hugging you tight 
about your head, as home we jog spirits high,
ready for bed and I wondering why we can't 
stay up 'til dawns light breaks and now my

Don'T Look Back

So, you wish for simpler times,
You'd get used to washing lines,
No dryer, no phone, no computer,
Into the tip, you  could boot her,
Boring it was, the good old days,
Labour intensive, vanished in time's haze,
Must look forward, nostalgia that,
There is no use turning back!

If I Could Only Turn Back the Clock

I can’t get behind the wheel, I’m disqualified
So I’m on the early morning train ride to the city
There are so many commuters, I join the throng 
Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide.

We are packed like sardines crushed side by side
Makes me wish I’d never driven when blind drunk
It’s many

If Only We Could Turn Back Time

do you remember way back when
golden pleasures of simplicity
the magic of human connectivity 
it all seemed unpretentious then



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Posted on February 15, 2020

If I Could Turn Back Time Contest

A Clock I built for my Daughter In Law


These old hands of time are running slow
Ben Gay has become my best friend
Now oil is dripping from my main spring
My cabinet is tarnished when I look in the mirror 

I use face cream as polish
My pendulum now swinging slower
If I could only turn back the time
It

If Only We Could Turn Back the Hands of Time

I can't forget those days when you were mine.
How young we were - not even at our prime!
Had we held on, could love have grown divine?
If only we could turn back the hands of time.

What could have been? I guess we'll never know.
Although I've never been caught in a crime,
a crime it was that day

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