Time Wasting Poems

Holding out on me, I see,
Never meant to pry,
Given tools to question,
One foot on the platform,
Fading sight.

Lost "need,"
Must I search,
What it means to be,
At least...

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If time is not properly managed
Surely life will be getting damaged
As time will leave us urgently
We mustn't touch troubles gently

Time if is wasted without sense
The...

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The words are dazzling, razzling, ripping and roaring.
I cannot tear them out of my mind fast enough.
They are chastising, criticizing, laughing and staring.
Some days my...

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Woke up jumped off the couch and
put on a mask
Used in order to survive another average day
Sat on the stairs lit up and smoked
enough to...

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Like sands
Through the hourglass
My thoughts percolate
Between instant gratification
And long-term resolution.

Like an unfaltering pool
Of sinking sand
My dissatisfaction agglutinates
With foolish gibberish
To obscure optimism.

Like a withering stalk
My shrivelling...

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I simpy don't understand my new psychiatrist
I've already completed three one-hour sessions
He sits there transfixed, listening to me as if I were
the most interesting person...

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I’ve spent days wasting paper 
Just trying to write a simple song
Describing the way I feel
Knowing that she’s long gone
I don’t lose my words often...

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My friends and family wonder thusly
On these hours lost to idle rhyme
Where such tales and thoughts expressed
Seem an affront on precious time.

My desire to fixate...

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Squandering what you
never had

And what you’ll never
—understand

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)...

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Kick up your heels,
you’re in a race against time.
Take the challenge,
it’s a piece of cake.

Don’t put it off till tomorrow
or cross the bridge when you...

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WASTING NO TIME

Standing there just a vacuum of an empty void
Visions of dreams within; her head were ployed

She wasn’t playing idle, as filling in wasted...

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EXPIRATION DATES - 20190122

We’ve all got inspiration dates,
But we can only guess at when.
From first breath ‘til the end,
Our lives were pre-measured by the Fates.

That...

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TIC TOC-TIC TOC-TIC-TOC  TIME STANDS STILL FOR NO ONE---

Tic-toc-tic-toc, tic-toc-tic-toc
It could never be your will;
Time stands still for no one;
Premise to the task;
Tic-toc-tic-toc, tic-toc-tic-toc
Whether...

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Wasting time regretting for things done leaves little time for things that have to be done!









© Demetrios Trifiatis
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It's most fun to live on the line,

and see derivatives in-front of your eyes...

It's most fun to be alive and see for your side every...

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