Time Poems | Examples of Time Poetry

Oh me, oh my, How time keeps tick-tocking by! Each year shaves pounds of days off the next Unburdened, it races on, faster and faster yet. We say, "Wasn't it yesterday or maybe just last week?" Or "where'd the time go?! Damn the thief!" Summer break was the Tortoise in our youth, but then we understood the stories moral and...

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In my kitchen, an old-fashioned timer Keeps track of my coffee pot’s perk. I wind it and eight minutes later, The pot has completed its work. The timer is shaped like a chicken; It ticks as the minutes elapse, Then rings to announce its completion, Technology prior to apps. Yet this morning, my chicken stopped tickin’; Its mechanics have chirped its last cluck, So I...

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Dad's old pocket watch... aureate, fine, glistening... his time on my hands...

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Today I saw the first yellow butterfly of this spring Happily I walked along side of it watching it's wings fluttering so violently I understood It's an eagerness I have felt inside my own heart We moved against the wind together Both celebrating our short time in the sun ...

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7:01 ~ the rerun's begun. 7:02 ~ what more can I do? 7:03 ~ woe is me. 7:04 ~ I can't take it anymore. 7:05 ~ sakes alive. 7:06 ~ I've prayed for a fix. 7:07 ~ will I ever make it to 7:11? 7:08 ~ it's already too late. 7:09 ~ here comes that dreaded line: 7:10 ~ "go back to 7:01 and...

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A good Monday begins With a well spent Sunday True, many good places to go: A morning walk in the forest A Sunday mass to thank God with A cozy place for breakfast A natural park for tiktok An afternoon visit to relatives An easy visit to a Public Library Or attend a yoga class at the park A simple desire of...

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BREAKFAST EGG Thought reaches pinnacle plunges into its own mystery cracks open narrow self an eggshell passes personal truth into Cosmic Heart region of eternal life this is all which is was or ever will be egg melts into One time collapses we eat it on toast with salt and pepper Time re-emerges ©GhairoDaniels Poetry2025 ...

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It is just another day To be used as we like To choose joy as our companion Or embolden friction and strife It is just another hour To spend as we desire To embrace love as a mentor Or wallow in customized mire It is just another minute To be valued as a prize To caress truth as life’s foreplay Or nestle with deception and lies It...

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In a library where time has paused to rest its heavy wings, two shadows float among the rows like phantoms lost in ink, where smoke rises like memories of a forgotten dream, two souls meet and burn like two stars in the endless night: Your coat carries the scent of absinthe and dreams that drift in melancholy, are you a...

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Life, in its cruelest joke, gives us only enough time to discover ourselves, we toil through the years of uncertainty, forging identities like soul blacksmiths, sharpening our talents, enduring betrayals and broken hearts, reaching the peak of self-possession only to be ready to depart. This is the irony of life, where maturity comes hand in hand with obsolescence, wisdom, that...

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Through the narrow window of time, I see fleeting shadows of lives that remain unfulfilled, Men bound to desks like to foreign altars, captive in routine and silence, Souls enclosed in a shell of paper and numbers, with hearts beating under the cold light's clocks, Once hunters of dreams and stars, now hunters of signatures and senseless approvals, Strangers...

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A metal shell, a face so plain, With numbers bold in sun or rain. The steady tick, a rhythmic beat, Announcing hours bitter or sweet. No gentle chimes, no subtle sound, But a jarring buzz that shook the ground. A sudden jolt, a rude embrace, Dragging us from sleep's soft space. We'd slap the top with sleepy hand, To silence its insistent command. A moment's...

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summer comes to life on cue flowers awaken joy for the picking time out to recharge the countdown gets serious for stressed bride-to-be posted on April 15, 2025...

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years and decades ~ water under the bridge the flow of the day-to-day of several decades ago thoughts probably like those i'm having today but back in time by almost a century what i would give to have a moment with you to reach out and talk to that amazing girl who would become my grand-mother posted on April 15, 2025...

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Blood flows the world over Millions die without closure ...

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