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Time Poems | Examples of Time Poetry

Time Poems - Examples of all types of time poetry to share and read. This list of time poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of time poetry. This list of works about time is an excellent resource for examples on how to write time poems.
Curtain Call
Sitting here thinking about the past regret for time mislaid What’s done is gone all swan’s in song — tomorrow’s yesterday (The New Room: May, 2024) ...Read the rest...
Categories: time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Shackling His Tongue
I am frustrated and annoyed by his ticking, or perhaps it should be labeled the 'tocking' By the never-ending tongue wagging clicking in the language better known as 'clocking' Must Grandfather Time command my life? He so rudely continues without...Read the rest...
Categories: time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He Has Only Just Begun
It started thousands of ages ago, when He had only just begun. His creativetly was beyond all thought, it was just divine. If one looks over the many years, we can see His handy work around every corner. Today, technology is...Read the rest...
Categories: earth, people, time, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Four o'clock
At four o'clock, Your world wakes: My dainty array Of a rainbow vale. With fascination, Every four o'clock I Watch your opening eyes Obey - without a fight - The alarm clock in your mind....Read the rest...
Categories: time, environment, flower, nature, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Only You Knew
I was lying in bed, unable to sleep, Thinking of troubles I'd seen in life, so deep. If I could give counsel to the younger Dave, From so many disasters, him I could still save. Somewhere, in bed, many...Read the rest...
Categories: time, age, child, fantasy, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Use Time Expediently
Use Time Expediently Written: by Miracle Man 5/13/2024 Yesterday’s are always unforgiving, for hourglass sand can’t defy gravity. Thoughts should be on time we’re living, we shouldn’t live life in depravity. We cannot alter the hands of time, nor learn what amount remains. But...Read the rest...
Categories: life, time,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Only Ten Shopping Days 'til the Locusts
Only ten shopping days ‘til the locusts arrive What on earth should I buy them I’ve scoured the stores, and what’s more ...Read the rest...
Categories: time, giving, humor, insect, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Runtime
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ time always running the clock has legs rather than hands ...Read the rest...
Categories: time,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member A Place Not Meant To Be: 14
#14: Revelations 23:1 Human chain meant Starman ... breathing room trips, H**** sapiens chose ... plus naught minus, the apocalypse ... opts total eclipse, self-acquaintance, he splits us, Linnaeus, Con temporaries times, countdown it chills, Adolph & Stalin it ticks and...Read the rest...
Categories: time, bible, creation, earth, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Above And Beyond
Time, a slave to importance when all respect for it — is gone (From ‘Calling Me Home’: May, 2024) ...Read the rest...
Categories: time,
Form: Free verse
The Infinite Gyre
Riding the spiraling clockwork of reality again – Off to the sky, beyond the clouds… And the revolutions grow faster, but, slowly, I begin to perceive their pattern. I am a slow learner, but I have been given...Read the rest...
Categories: life, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lovers Over Time
Fire ignites in the body. Pleasures that transcend life within life and create tremors in the soul. A kiss on the lips, honey drips. Bodies entangled in embrace so tight. Everything so right. In euphoric ecstasy in the presence of abiding love in...Read the rest...
Categories: love, time,
Form: Free verse
Quality Time With Mom
Have time to your mom Say something to tell her wise She ought to treat nice....Read the rest...
Categories: caregiving, family, relationship, time,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Footprints
There is a sense of trespass on this frost enameled morning as I leave my footprints graffitied across the white grass, sending the noise of every step to crunch my presence into a wide, frozen silence. I stop, marooned...Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, morning, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Now is Just Your Then
As the clocks creep, unknown... again, my summer's call, of Calendulas, and Cotswold stone, crumbles, in compliance, that this, beauty, cannot be…here, just for me, alone. ...Read the rest...
Categories: time, beauty, extended metaphor, history,
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of Time Poems

Read wonderful time poetry on the following sub-topics: change, christmas, death, harvest, passing, precious, rhyme, running out, war and more.

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