Time Poems
Four Songs Of Four Seasons
by Algernon Charl Swinburne
I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND
OUTSIDE the garden
The wet skies harden;
The gates are barred on
The summer side:
"Shut out the flower-time,
Sunbeam and shower-time;
Make way for our time,"
Wild winds have cried.
Green once and cheery,
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Poems about Age, Aging, and Getting Old
by Michael R. Burch
These are poems about time, poems about the process of maturation, poems about aging and growing old, poems about life's journey and its destination.
There is also a collection of my early poems, many about getting older and aging, toward the bottom of this page.
Learning to Fly
by Michael R. Burch
We are learning to fly
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Natural Beauty Mirror
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
Nature's captured in blue undulations, as swans glide,
at the sunrise of red, against backdrop of colorful sky.
Then the mirror turns so golden, as sun reaches zenith,
Reflecting purple and jade birds, in clouds, enormous.
Sea of striking scenes, of vivid birds, off to foreign land,
of pines, yellow flowers, mountains, or pebbly beaches.
Moonlight visits, strewing pearls on meandering waves;
with pretty, beige stars, winking, at secret bearing night.
Swimmers floating or frolicking, just one day in the life.
Moments trapped within nature's mirror of time, forever.
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The Mississippi River Empties Into The Gulf
by Lucille Clifton
and the gulf enters the sea and so forth,
none of them emptying anything,
all of them carrying yesterday
forever on their white tipped backs,
all of them dragging forward tomorrow.
it is the great circulation
of the earth's body, like the blood
of the gods, this river in which the past
is always flowing. every water
is the same water coming round.
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Meditations In Time Of Civil War
by William Butler Yeats
I
Ancestral Houses
SURELY among a rich man s flowering lawns,
Amid the rustle of his planted hills,
Life overflows without ambitious pains;
And rains down life until the basin spills,
And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains
As though to choose whatever shape it wills
And never stoop to a mechanical
Or servile shape, at others' beck and call.
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When time refuses to move
by Mario Odekerken
Last year seems like yesterday,
still resting on the edge of my thoughts,
still carrying the sound of voices
I believed I had already forgotten.
The days have continued without asking,
yet some moments remain untouched,
preserved in the quiet spaces
where memory keeps its own calendar.
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Natural Beauty Mirror
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
Nature's captured in blue undulations, as swans glide,
at the sunrise of red, against backdrop of colorful sky.
Then the mirror turns so golden, as sun reaches zenith,
Reflecting purple and jade birds, in clouds, enormous.
Sea of striking scenes, of vivid birds, off to foreign land,
of pines, yellow flowers, mountains, or pebbly beaches.
Moonlight visits, strewing pearls on meandering waves;
with pretty, beige stars, winking, at secret bearing night.
Swimmers floating or frolicking, just one day in the life.
Moments trapped within nature's mirror of time, forever.
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Unstruck
by Ajay Tamla
All of us are
A little broken
A little faded
With time
All of us become
A little tired
A little lonely
With life
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My Life in Time
by Peter Dr Lim
..but time has no anchor
it must move on
just as the sun today
as it yesterday shone
it's at my heels
since I was born
it only leaves
when my life is gone
The Calendar That Learned Our Names
by Oscar Auliq-Ice
There was a spring when we mistook beginnings
for permanence.
The world, newly rehearsed in green,
seemed to agree with us—
as if leaves were promises
and every birdcall a signature
on something neither of us had read closely enough.
We spoke lightly then,
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Rainer Maria Rilke (16 poems about Time)
4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926 / Prague / Czech Republic -
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich (14 poems about Time)
November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907 / Portsmouth, New Hampshire -
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Delmore Schwartz (13 poems about Time)
8 December 1913 - 11 July 1966 / Brooklyn / New York / United States