by Christina Bowring |
Categories:
faith, love, time,
Crystal winged hourglass flows muted gold sand
as time turns red dawn to pink dusk once more;
life’s tapestry fades as years so expand
but love in the heart gives youth to restore
when embraced with so much left to explore.
Crystal winged hourglass portrays such fleeting
finite life as time slips by depleting;
with love reborn, awoken from sleeping
so shall heavenly days be accreting -
when sand flows no more - just joy, no weeping.
by Andrea Dietrich |
Categories:
thanks,
What Matters Most
What matters most is obvious to me.
It’s hearth and home, kin and family.
Life is an hourglass and the sands
of your time keep drifting down -
drifting, drifting, drifting
downward as you race
to get in all
the things you
want to
do!
But
take time
to breathe in
the things you love:
fresh baked bread, roses,
the petrichor of spring!
Simple are life’s joys. Give all
you love to all those you love, for
that will be your legacy when your
sands run out and the hourglass turns over.
April 1, 2020
for Chantelle Anne Cooke's "What Matters the Most to You" Poetry contest
by Andrea Dietrich |
Categories:
life,
At the appointed time (you know not when)
your spirit will kiss this world goodbye.
Sands of your earthly time will then
have run their course. Folks will cry.
Your progeny will be
left behind, and words
hopefully kind
about you
will be
said.
The
hourglass
at this time
for you alone
will have flipped. Dear ones
will keep on their own path.
With spirit eyes, you’ll view them
from behind the veil where you will
slip, knowing that the hourglass of those
whom you so love will also soon be flipped.
Feb. 6, 2022
For Edward Ibeh's Pick-A-Title, Vol 28 Poetry Contest
Title 4: Flipped Hourglass in double etheree poetry form
by Kim Merryman |
Categories:
age, health,
Our
days on
earth are as
fleeting as a
shadow. Try as we
might to hold onto them
They slip through our fingers like
hourglass sand and we grow old. Our
memories fade, sight grows dim, names and
faces escape our grasp. Every day we
struggle to maintain our dignity. Steps
grow slower, hearts grow weaker as time
takes its toll. Too soon death will come
calling and snatch us away.
But until that day we
live, we breathe, we love.
Every day is a
gift from God.
Embrace
it.
9/8/16
by Dorian Petersen Potter |
Categories:
faith, hope, inspirational, love,
~Love And Peace~
(Mirrored Hourglass)
Pray God for love, peace today
Love comes from the Lord
He sets us all free
Changes all hearts
Makes us strong
His love
His love
Makes us strong
Changes all hearts
He sets us all free
Love comes from the Lord
Pray God for love, peace today
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
June.29.2016
~Author's Notes:
The "Mirrored Hourglass" is a poetry style created by
George L. Ellison.
by John Gilman |
Categories:
depression, dream, loneliness, poetry, sorrow,
the dream painted itself sad ashen grey
a parched desert where rain never falls
this dark metaphor in her barren heart
loneliness whispering of love yet to call
bones of long lost hope on the ground
amid sands of uncountable empty years
she picked up the skull bleached white
all that remained of an old mossy steer
wondering if that would be her destiny
to wander until life's hourglass ran dry
becoming a forgotten, lost skeleton
eroded by day
and
ignored
by
night's
sky
by Poet Tacito |
Categories:
dream, life, longing, lost love,
Our hearts were a veritable slow dance
And I didn’t have to put my baby
In the corner
Our retinas
became diamond forged binds
In serenity’s lock
Dipping
Your tear ducts within our wishing wells
Never
Running
Dry
Our flesh
Bringing lukewarm elasticity
To gentle boil
Every graceful thrust
Mimicking fireplace embers
Under cabin’s winter moon
Until my deep sigh
Embedded paragraphs
Within “Dear John” parchment
…
At least
Trinity’s hourglass
Permitted me to sing I love you choruses
Before your hearts’ phone line
Disconnected
…
©Drake J. Eszes
by Rachel St.Cross |
Categories:
beautiful, girl, love,
Summer's surf rising from ivory tides be her light...
Reflecting from an hourglass these prisms she sways
Breaking waves their eyes conversations ladies they gaze.
by Paul Callus |
Categories:
romantic, time,
The New Year (Cornish Sonnet)
The clock struck midnight; she came in
attired in silky flowing dress
that matched her youthful glowing skin.
She clutched an hourglass in her hand
that showed the seconds evanesce
with every grain of trickling sand.
I put my bow to violin
and played for her a melody;
I hoped her tender heart to win.
Champagne was popped and glasses raised
but she cared not for revelry...
into my eyes she deeply gazed.
The clock struck midnight; she came in.
I put my bow to violin.
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4th January, 2015
Contest: Cornish Sonnet
Sponsor: Craig Cornish
Placed 4th
by Rachel St.Cross |
Categories:
beautiful, girl, love,
Gazing lovingly upon her velvets
Beautiful heart shaped glass
Searching about the vanity's
Disclosing drawer and a brush
Gliding it sensually through
Her cascadings golden hair
Mesmerized as joy fills my eyes
Once more; such beauty her light
Giggling while turning knowingly
Amid her silkened bareness
Cherries set in firm atop, soft
Voluptuous vanilla breast
Swaying gently fragrants perfect
Hourglass afore that my heart
Timeless this love's windless
Chills caressing my spirit
Left drifting inside these her
Spellbinding, oceans painted eyes.
by Dorian Petersen Potter |
Categories:
faith, hope, inspirational, love,
~Trust~
(George's Mirrored Hourglass)
In God I can always trust
With Him my heart just glows
When storms comes He's there
Rests in His love
Loves me well
I know
I know
Loves me well
Rest in His love
When storms comes He's there
With Him my heart just glows
In God I can always trust.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2013
December.21.2015
~Author's Notes:
"George's Mirrored Hourglass" is a poetry style created
by George L. Ellison.
by Dorian Petersen Potter |
Categories:
faith, god, hope, love,
~Love And Peace~
(Mirrored Hourglass)
Pray God for love, peace today
Love comes from the Lord
He sets us all free
Changes all hearts
Makes us strong
In Him
In Him
Makes us strong
Changes all hearts
He sets us all free
Love comes from the Lord
Pray God for love, peace today
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2013
June.30.2015
The "Mirrored Refrain" is a poetry style created by poet
George L. Ellison.
by Lu Loo |
Categories:
love, marriage,
if galaxies were only made to be mine,
I’d give you the universe in its entirety.
last night stardust fell upon our eyes
and constellations called our names-
we sat under the magenta solstice
moonlight and pleaded for the night
to never end...for you are my revelation.
I ache for your touch-
for it outweighs any fallacy I may encounter
in my life.
you long for my eyes-
for you see a whole new word of love and
passion through them.
if you want tears,
I’d give you an ocean-
if you need light,
I’d rope the sun.
for there is no hourglass of time that
can contain our endless tenderness-
only grains of footprints left on my heart.
August 15, 2018
by John Lawless |
Categories:
heartbreak, lost love,
Distant Omens
Augeries
of forgotten doubts
long erased by hourglass sands
shadows passing through an empty space
voided by loveless passion
hiding in search of
an omen.
John G. Lawless
Give Me A Sign – Poetry Contest
5/14/2015
by Rhoda Tripp |
Categories:
absence, dark, emotions, farewell, goodbye, lost love, time,
To: the “Timeless” One
Like parallel lines that don’t intersect
Like strangers in subways that never connect
Like messages in bottles that never reach shore
Like a drained stream, I don’t try any more.
Because
You’re like a stormy cloud that dampened my light
Like a blank stare in the dead of the night
Like a worn out movie that’s stuck on rewind
You’re that man on the sidewalk, ten steps behind.
Love,
The Hourglass
by Susan Gentry |
Categories:
betrayal, heartbreak,
Words as empty as the hourglass shatters
Lay scattered across their bedroom floor
Hearts drained of anything that matters
Crumbled as fine as particles of sand
Promises gone forevermore
Left no reason for either to demand
They pursue counseling if they dare
No one cared enough to try anymore
Time left nothing for them to share
Love watched them walk out the door
June 26, 2018
Rhyme Time 4 - 10 Lines Contest by Laura Loo
A-B-A-C-B-C-D-B-D-B
Second Place
by John Allen |
Categories:
lost love, sad, visionary, heart, heart,
A tear in an hourglass
so slowly it falls
a sorrow for every dream
that lay shattered against the wall.
So fragile is such a thing
that withers in part
what sadness she brings
in broken heart
Doth do we cringe
bent on broken knee
wounded in love
wounded by thee
Dulled is the sword
that had swung with such force
splintered is the shield
but the heart injured worse
All heroes are slain
killed in passionate war
every heart breaks
to love nevermore
by Kay Roberts |
Categories:
heartbreak, heartbroken, lost love,
Picking up the pieces,
Of her shattered life,
Every joyous memory,
Lances through her, like a knife.
Time's slipping between her fingers,
Like sand through an hourglass,
The turmoil in her mind,
Never ceases, doesn't pass.
Vicious words were spoken,
Jagged scars remain,
No amount of alcohol,
Can ease the searing pain.
No more sorrow,
No tears left to cry,
She's picking up the pieces,
Her resolve will not die.
by Vanessa Ponce |
Categories:
love, garden, love,
In a summer's noon of night
In search of vastness height
A love affair began through the hourglass
While a shooting star shall pass
We wished for innocence again
As we breathed our inner zen
Embracing under the velvet sky
Above the garden that we lie
His sweetness upon my face
I doubt I shall erase
The rolling tide of summer breeze
In a simple kiss of please
His hands perish upon me
Opens his eyes for me to see
Entering our garden of Eden
Our sanctuary to the end
In our hand you shall find
A love affair so tightly kind
In a serenity not so far
But only in our book of stars.
by Dorian Petersen Potter |
Categories:
bereavement, love, sad,
~ My Eyes ~
( Mirrored Hourglass)
My eyes are fill'd with teardrops
My heart is wreck'd with pain
I do miss you so
And so much more
As time goes
I do
I do
As time goes
And so much more
I do miss you so
My heart is wreck'd with pain
My eyes are fill'd with teardrops
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2017
October.26.2017
'Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.'
- Mark Twain-
~Author's Notes:
The 'Mirrored Hourglass' is a poetry form or style created by George E. Ellison.
by Shane Cooper |
Categories:
death, dream, love,
DREAMS OF THE DEATH OF LOVE
When a dream meets reality does love die?
When I dream of your caress I fly
Through the night so far above,
Pleasures undreamed of
Found in your
Love.
Nevermore
To kiss my sweet dove,
Gone the Laughter I belove.
Cold earth blankets your silent goodbye.
When a dream meets reality does love die?
Written 17/02/15
For Andrea Dietrich’s contest “An invented form”
Name for This form “hourglass”
by Sarah Seraphin |
Categories:
love, passion, romance,
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Driving through Santa Monica as stopping at a light; standing upon the corner
The most beautiful of girls; waiting with a smile to cross unto the other side...
Hourglass her reflection in diamonds while catching my breath, as the world froze
Icicles of desire piercing my spirit to grasp these hearts; she felt the vibes ~
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...“Soft Creamy Chocolate Delight's” *
by Ken Carroll |
Categories:
dream, fantasy, love,
My lover
speaks fire
laughs smoke
she is madness
spilled from
my imagination
My lover
with raven hair
of wooded fire
midsummer night
kisses of
heated lightning
My lover
with zebra thighs
breasts of clouds
hourglass waist
lips of champagne
ace of hearts
My lover
mother of pearl
eyes of blue siren
sings for me
no one ever hears
yesterday and tomorrow
My lover
Monday through Friday
swims in the ocean
that I prepare for her
comes and goes
to the sky...
by Dylan Catalano |
Categories:
angst, beauty, emotions, feelings, how i feel, love, youth,
Long hair, beautiful and dark like a starless night sky,
perfectly matching her personality.
A face as intoxicating as an empty bottle of rye
with eyes that glare dogmatically.
Her body is an hourglass
and my time is running out.
Composure I must amass
for these feelings I know little about.
She is a book filled with an unknown story
written in the blood ink of her past lovers --
my very own memento mori,
which if ignored will put me under the covers.
Covers from which I will not rise,
stuck beneath her sheet of lies.
by Thabang Ngoma |
Categories:
cute love, light,
I taste suburban bliss
On your journey to my heart
In the breath of your kiss
You whisper, “We’ll never be apart.”
A shower of living colour
The shade of the highest tower
My thirst has never known anything cooler
Your beauty holds such power
A diamond to break the ice
In your eyes I see it sparkle
On my knee begging for a yes
In your hourglass - a twinkle
You bless me with a smile
My happiness’s when you fizzle
I hold on for a cool while
It’s been a gruelling path to your bottle
When I sizzle - Always Coca Cola
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