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Time Poems | Examples of Time Poetry

Time Poems
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.
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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow never comes. Don't forget about your present. Open that gift today. Let go all your grudges, Judgments, Past mistakes, Watch the route today makes. Illusive Tomorrow, The valiant foe. Teasing us, It'll never show, It's yesterday's shadow. Look to your present, Go with the flow, For...Read the rest...
Categories: time, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
TO LIVE A GOOD LIFE
Living happily in life, consists of building futures with the memories of the past ...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, appreciation, future, time,
Form: Epigram



Good Timer
Ant Growing In the line Of Discipline To earn the life's goal Hard work in time Judge the worth Of each Stitch ©Mahtab Bangalee...Read the rest...
Categories: life, time,
Form: Ninette

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Premium Member Another story never told
Time and space Duration and displacement Words suggesting separation And necessary apparently For the stories which Make up knowing and doing.. For the most part Few arguments are posed To threaten these assumptions And an argument would Be another story featuring Time and space.. Words...Read the rest...
Categories: grave, inspiration, simple, time,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Fickle Instant Osmosis
Ephemeral eternity — covers osmosis pinnacles In a loving natural roots, nostalgia never fails Welcomed. . .we wander — and cry It slinks slackly not dwelling in the gloom. . . Gestalt therapy in sepia tones offers an odd...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, morning, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member As Time Goes by
Time goes by the way it does, and we can't catch up, and so we don't. People put us in the recesses of their minds, but we are still here. And they are still there, I suppose. I often wonder ......Read the rest...
Categories: time, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The King and the Sage
I thought it was enough I loved them all. Yet love may rise, whilst lives about one fall. In myriad hopes conceiving were I tasked, Yet all the while, on balconies I basked. For glory’s garlands shall it ne’er...Read the rest...
Categories: time, allegory, courage, cry, death,
Form: Rhyme
Forever Is Now
Today is in context Tomorrow is not The moment held captive The future uncaught To be unbegotten No birth and no death The present resplendent No last — dying breath (Dreamsleep: January, 2025) ...Read the rest...
Categories: time,
Form: Rhyme
Love Is Not Bitter
Love is not bitter, for time is not long, Love is the rainbow, and never the rain; Love is the weakness that makes the heart strong; Love me forever, two ones to a twain....Read the rest...
Categories: time, life, love, marriage, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member January
January First member from the twelve in the new year Greeting us this month, new time and aged love Getting older our life comes closer to the last time January, every year you come to me…, stay far Stay far,...Read the rest...
Categories: time, fate, january, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poem By Any Other Name
A Poem by Any Other Name…Should Smell Like a Poem I ran out of time to post my lines. So, as I compose I hold my nose. Acrid alliteratives, malodorous odes, musty metaphors, putrid pantoums, reeking rhymes, stinky stanzas, smelly sagas, obfuscate our olfactory organs. So, as you...Read the rest...
Categories: time, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Success Is Like A Pot Of Soup
Success is like a pot of soup: Think about making a pot of soup You put the ingredients in Boil them for a long time It seemed like nothing was happening Suddenly the sweet smell came up That's where...Read the rest...
Categories: growth, success, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Preceding Ice-T
The very first rapper preceded Ice-T by aeons and eons Though his rap-a-tap-tap ...Read the rest...
Categories: bird, celebrity, rap, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Myopia
There’s nothing more satisfying - Than seeing clearly. The sharpness of the edges - Cutting through you, Starstruck. Inspired. Blink and you just might miss it. Rest and you may never find. The speed of reality is self destructive. Slowly, the lines start to...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, sad, time, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Etched In Stone
The eye in the jewelry box was the aged rusty gate ...Read the rest...
Categories: fate, home, sad, time,
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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