My time slips away
Shifting and ethereal
Evading my grasp
Moments turn to memory
Cascading through my fingers
– SR Romney 2026
Archive for the ‘Time’ Tag
Time Slips (National Poetry Writing Month 2026 #24) Leave a comment
Blinks (National Poetry Writing Month 2026 #18) Leave a comment
Time is a bunch of blinks
Converting into memories
Up to the day
The memories no longer save
And you blink one last time
– SR Romney 2026
To Be Decided (National Poetry Writing Month 2025 #30) Leave a comment
We all have some thoughts
Desires and dreams we leave
To be decided
But we should not wait too long
Or else time decides for us
– SR Romney 2025
Lines (National Poetry Writing Month 2024 #26) Leave a comment
One by one
Stand in line
Patiently waiting our turn
Check the phone
Loose a sigh
Patiently waiting our turn
Thinking thoughts
Dreaming dreams
Patiently waiting our turn
All our life
Spent in lines
Patiently waiting our turn
SR Romney 2024
Porcelain (National Poetry Writing Month 2024 #22) Leave a comment
I am a broken porcelain vase
Each shattered piece carefully resting in its right place
Loosely held together by some glue
Doing my best impersonation of something new
But year over year, and crack by crack
I lose a little more of myself I won't get back
One day there will be so little left
My pieces all eroded, and my true self bereft
The vase is no more, no longer me
I'm the porcelain and lacquer washed away in the sea
SR Romney 2024
Ruminating (National Poetry Writing Month 2024 #15) Leave a comment
Worrying about futures that won't exist
Dreaming up battles I don't need to win
Seeking temptations that I won't resist
Facing the ending before I begin
Dwelling on problems that have come and gone
Commiserating over my mistakes
Replaying the game when all's said and done
Losing my chips after seeing the stakes
Never embracing the moment I'm in
Never taking time to enjoy the show
Not taking a second to gaze within
Worrying about then, not here and now
Dreading the future, and stuck in the past
Without the present, my first is my last.
SR Romney 2024
Hurry Up and Wait (National Poetry Writing Month 2023 #3) Leave a comment
Time to rev your engines!
Hurry up and wait!
We need you taut and ready
For an unspecified date.
We need you to be vigilant,
To guard, to anticipate
The problems that may never come.
So hurry up and wait.
– SR Romney 2023
Growing Older (National Poetry Writing Month 2022 #4) Leave a comment
Once upon a time
I'd run to you when I was sad
You'd dry my tears and remind me
That it's not so bad
But just that's just how it used to be
Now it's only a memory
– SR Romney 2022
Moving Days (National Poetry Writing Month 2020 #4) Leave a comment
Moving days
In bags and boxes
Trying to arrange
The time we have left
– SR Romney 2020
Wasting Time (National Poetry Writing Month 2019 #14) Leave a comment
Wasting away
The hours in the day
What can I say
Do they matter anyway?
It’s worth what I pay
If it shows me a way
From all work and no play
– Shaman Romney 2019
Shame on The Universe 