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Hourglasses Poems - Poems about Hourglasses

What more remains
... The slow rising sun just behind the row of pines. The quiet bending branch reaching over an ice-frosted bridge. An early morning walk down by the snow covered creek with your lover's arm protec......

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Categories: hourglasses, poetry, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
To Burn the Witch is to Admit that Magic Exists
...I never understood the sentiment: “Attention is attention even it's bad” Until now I spill your gearfull hourglasses better than anyone can And you still don't recognize who I am You weren'......

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Categories: hourglasses, angst,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member It wasn't the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could live with
...It wasn't the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could live with, A canvas woven from moonbeams and delicate shadows on the water's face. They were seeking a tale in which to slumber, beside a......

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Categories: hourglasses, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Narrow Margin
...- in those moments, it shines. The nostalgia of an upside down world glinting up through hourglasses of years, a mark impressed upon flesh; a scar harbouring simple childhood games inside a jagge......

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Categories: hourglasses, analogy,
Form: Free verse
You Wouldn't Know Cupid's Arrow If It Shot You Right In the Face
...Once a wish, always a pipe dream You would’ve known what it was if it came true Let’s swap journals and see what we find Show me the life you think you’re living And I’ll show you mine Your ......

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Categories: hourglasses, anxiety, best friend, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Our Hourglass
...From the moment we are born…the moment our head first pops out… the hourglass of our life turns over and our time begins to run out. Of course we don’t understand this when we’re young… how time......

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Categories: hourglasses, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jerrys Decision To Travel
...Jerry stared at the travel poster for Hawaii The women were shaped like perfect hourglasses wearing skimpy outfits, dancing for him if Jerry jumped on a plane to Oahu he would become dazzling......

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Categories: hourglasses, travel,
Form: Light Verse
The Tower of Life
...Within the village stood a great tower Across the lands countless traveled to attempt to climb this tower, yet many cowered Those, who achieved this great feat were praised by the masses Given ......

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Categories: hourglasses, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On Christmas Day
..."Travel light" Santa said to me as I grappled for all my most treasured belongings. I stuffed them all in a duffle bag, then with the silliest of grin on my face I said, " Ready" The ride up......

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Categories: hourglasses, appreciation, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Convoluted
...My subjective has been documented by my objective – sort of like, my thoughts verify my brain, though no one can see them. I guess, what I'm trying to say is, Time exists independent of watches......

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Categories: hourglasses, christian, extended metaphor, humorous,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Masses
...The brainwashed masses, Wearing rose-colored glasses, And nonchalantly flashing passes, Never realizing the hourglasses Are running out of time. Miasmic shadows And dystopian blows Are worki......

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Categories: hourglasses, evil, psychological, society,
Form: Rhyme
Recrudescence
...Stuck in a loop, Staring into space, Time and time again, Making the same mistakes... Soaring one moment, Crashing the next; From long conversations To unanswered texts; Hourglasses and p......

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Categories: hourglasses, life, love,
Form: Ballad
Limited Express
...I fall I leave and I let go For all I know This brain dead of a year Has taught me how And I know now Ain’t got The time The heart The brain To attempt The start of something new It don’......

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Categories: hourglasses, celebration, dream, growth, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Revoltee Protestation Amnesia
... America was born in protest violence, but Lady Liberty now has postpartum memento — A colonial, hypocritical condition called: Revoltee Protestation Amnesia Wavy umbilical vanished......

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Categories: hourglasses, america, history, philosophy, political,
Form: Narrative
My Hourglass
...An explosion of hair in her face is disclosing the beauty of the eyes veiled beholding a dream unfolding where the poor are gold and war is at most a bloody tale told in the misty night when the ......

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Categories: hourglasses, anxiety, beautiful, depression, mental
Form: Rhyme

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