11 Poems About Time & How to Spend Your Precious Life
Time captures our lives in a series of moments. Whilst every second is equal, our experience varies from day to day. We all know the saying ‘time flies when you’re having fun,’ yet the opposite is true when we live out the mundane.
It seems time is not the factor that slows down and speeds up, but it’s the interpretation of our experience that makes time loops open and collapse.
Perhaps, the secret to life is to enjoy it just a little, finding the sweet spot between excited acceleration and mundane dedication in our day-to-day lives.
I hope this collection of poems about time inspires you to think differently about how you can spend your time wisely and divinely upon this planet earth.
Poems About Time
1. All the Time in the World - Jadine Lydia
i wish i knew how to live
as if i had all the time in the world
but there are too many things
my soul wants to see,
do, live and become.
original poem – @jadinelydia
2. A Poem About Time - R. Clift
3. If Time Could Talk - Maria Hocking
I wish you knew the value
of my presence everyday
For if you truly understood
You would live your life your way
Invisible to the naked eye
You may forget that I exist
But one day your heart will remind you
Of every moment missed.
You may feel that your life is long
But it’s only as long as I can give
My hours and minutes are not forever
Life is too short not to live.
I beg you do not waste me
I am more precious than money or gold
Once gone you will never retrieve me
I cannot be bought nor can I be sold
So cherish me while I am yours,
For one day I’ll slip away,
I give you moments, dreams, and hope—
Don’t waste a single day.
original poem by Maria Hocking
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4. Time Hung - Erin Hanson
5. In Your Eyes I see - Jadine Lydia
it is in your eyes,
that i feel
i hear
i see;
the truth
the pain
the love;
pure uncertainty –
of what could be
of what might be
of what one day
someday
inevitably,
will be.
the death of you,
and the death of me.
one day at a time
we live, we breathe.
until someday,
we set ourselves free,
into the unknown
where our souls will meet
and become –
lost, wild and free.
extract from ‘Simple Truths’
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6. The Moveable Future - Caitlin Conlon
extract from ‘Burning the Ghost Light’
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7. Sun Sky- Jadine Lydia
and just when i think
i can take no more
there is a gentle opening,
a gateway, a breath beyond all matter;
where the sun meets the sky
and the sky meets the earth
and for just one moment
time stood still –
above, below and beyond.
extract from ‘Simple Truths’
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8. Time Isn't Flying By - Jessie Raelynn
9. Time - @white_pigeon_poet
10. Your Time - J.R. Poetry
11. Preciously Mine - Jadine Lydia
grief,
stream through me –
let the abundance of loss
crack me open to the edge
of my pale pink core,
so that i may balance on the precipice
and dance with the oracle
knowing that all life is precious
and you were preciously mine
just for a time –
thank you.
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A Paradoxical Collection About Understanding Your Time on This Earth
Time is relentless. It doesn’t wait for you to be ready, to heal, or to figure it all out.
Simple Truths is a poetry collection for those living right in the middle of that tension – halfway between who you were and who you’re becoming.
Raw, provocative, and unflinching, these poems don’t dress up the paradox of life. They walk straight into it. If these poems about time stirred something in you, there’s more waiting. Dive into Simple Truths and find deeper meaning.
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