Notes on the nature of time

Time flies by when you're having fun
so easy lost so rarely won
Time drags when you are bored
What a waste of a valuable hoard


Youth passes by so quickly
While the lingerers grow old and sickly
Wait a minute turns to several hours
your valuable time this wait devours


There is nowhere to hide from time
It has no reason nor a rhyme
So enjoy your time, have a ball
because in the end time fooled us all


by dan green

My dear

I will fight not for queen nor country dear
I will fight not for my beliefs
I will fight only for you my dear,
as I go off to war

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On scarred and blackened battlefield,
I fight not for my life
I fight not for my comrades
For you my dear, I fight.

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I take this bullet for you my dear.
I fought for your defense.
I fought for you alone my dear
now I bid farewell.

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I die not for queen or country dear,
I die not for my beliefs.
I die only for you my dear,
when I went off to war.

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by dan green 2010

Is this the life? by Sally

Is this the life well chosen

Meticulously planned

In bullet points from nine to five

Will the poem scan?

Is it trimmed like city hedge

Or rampant gypsy rose

Will it trot with dressage steps

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Or scent the wind and toss the mane

Hang the humdrum take the leap

Swap daily bread for hyacinths

Risk all for fragile dreams

Is this the life well chosen

Prosaic or free verse

To feed the soul while belly groans

A poet in a garret bathed

In light from distant stars?