<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425733" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Passed By - Acrostic Sonnet</strong></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 below </div><div style="margin:10px 0">____________________<br> <br>As Time Slips By</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As time sleeps by love’s tide grows sluggard, cold, <br>Slow beats the heart, forgetting dreams once sought.<br>Then, fragile, faith soon spins its cobwebs - caught <br>In Time’s equation web. Where once soul bold<br>Made untamed music, 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 slips as fears take hold, <br>Plaintive spirit sinks in shell, distraught, <br>Second hand experiences, thought, <br>Buy time, dismiss love from life's centrefold.<br>Yawning the abyss which, biding time, <br>will swallow every line and every rhyme.</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=425733" data-title="Passed By - Acrostic Sonnet de Jonathan Robin" data-description="As time drifts by Love’s tide flows coward, cold, Slow beats sad heart, lost far from dreams once sought. Too little lust, - blades rust, in cobwebs caught - In time fires dim which once, in times of old, Moved untamed ecstasy, flame bold. Exi..."></div> </div> </div>

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