<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424679" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>As Time Slips By - Acrostic Sonnet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As time sleeps by love’s tide [s]weeps sluggard, cold, <br>Slow beats heart's flow, forgets dreams' heats once sought.<br>Then, fragile, faith wraith cobwebs spins, sins caught <br>In Time’s equation web. Where once soul bold<br>Made music wild, filed, passion dims, short-sold.<br>Existence pales, stales, fails, - loves tales abort - <br>Sheds goals, gaols aims at joys ‘chance’ might have brought -<br>Little cares how life’s tale may unfold.<br>Inspiration wanes, fears stranglehold, <br>Plaintive soul retreats to shell, distraught, <br>Second hand experiences, thought, <br>Buy time, dismiss love from life's centrefold.<br>Yawning the abyss which, biding time, <br>shall swallow every line and every rhyme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">© Jonathan Robin – Acrostic Sonnet written 16 September 2001 revised 7 August 2007<br>_______________</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Passed By</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As time drifts by Love’s tide flows coward, cold, <br>Slow beats sad heart, lost far from dreams once sought.<br>Too little lust, - blades rust, in cobwebs caught -<br>In time fires dim which once, in times of old, <br>Moved untamed ecstasy, flame bold.<br>Existence paled until encounter brought <br>Potency restored, fresh friendship taught <br>A focus fresh, let energies unfold. <br>Some dreams remain, most vain, in stranglehold<br>Spirit stifled, struggle not as thought <br>Experience leaves feelings dulled, distraught, <br>Dismisses soul from life's bright centrefold. <br>But chance encounter sets in timeless motion<br>Yen to advance, to share inspired emotion...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">© Jonathan Robin – Acrostic Sonnet written 16 April 2005 as a variation of As Time Slips By – see above</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424679" data-title="As Time Slips By - Acrostic Sonnet de Jonathan Robin" data-description="As time sleeps by love’s tide [s]weeps sluggard, cold, Slow beats heart's flow, forgets dreams' heats once sought. Then, fragile, faith wraith cobwebs spins, sins caught In Time’s equation web. Where once soul bold Made music wild, filed, pa..."></div> </div> </div>

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