In An Instant
IN AN INSTANT
In an instant
Before we see Night
We may never again
Feel the Light.
poem by Shalom Freedman
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
Instant Mash
In the supermarket there is music while you work
It drives you crazy, sends you screaming for the door
Work there for a year or two and you can't get to like it
I don't work in supermarkets anymore
It's so easy, it's so easy
Grab can, lift arm, stack can, turn around
It's so easy, it's so easy
Do the instant mash, do the instant mash
Do the instant mash, make an instant smash
Doin' the instant mash
In the discorama there's a dj tries to charm ya
They got flashin' lights to dance to if you're shy
Red for treble, green for bass, they're wired in sequence round the place
You wait till ten, then try take off your tie
It's so easy, it's so easy
Lift hand, flick wrist, drop hand, turn around
It's so easy, it's so easy
Do the instant mash, do the instant mash
Do the instant mash, make some instant cash
Doin' the instant mash
In the cinema tonight they sit and watch the robots fight
The human beings don't have much to say
Robots making lots of cash and all they eat is instant mash
Oh wouldn't you just love to be that way?
It's so easy, it's so easy
Heat it, beat it, eat it, turn around
It's so easy, it's so easy
Do the instant mash, do the instant mash
Do the instant mash, make an instant smash
Doin' the instant mash
song performed by by Joe Jackson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Instant Tunes
Instant tunes only just been made
Instant songs never to be played
Instant tunes hanging out to dry
Let me try to introduce you to
Instant tunes
Instant tunes
Instant tunes
Instant tunes
Ever and ever will they give us pleasure
Their instant, still instant
Like mother used to make it -- oh!
Instant tunes give instant cash
Make me want to start a backlash
Let me have the recipe
And make me some lovely, lovely
Instant tunes
Instant tunes
Instant tunes
Instant tunes
Ever and ever will they give us pleasure
Their instant, still instant
Like mother used to make it -- oh!
Ever and ever will they give us pleasure
Their instant, still instant
Like mother used to make it -- oh!
Instant tunes give instant cash
Make me want to start a backlash
Let me have the recipe
And make me some lovely, lovely
Instant tunes
Instant tunes
Instant tunes
Instant tunes
song performed by by Xtc
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Kandis
You may feel
That your life
Is full of sorrow
And sometimes
Unbearable
But you just
Cannot fly away
When you
Feel
Like flying
In any instant
Since you
Are not a bird
I may feel the
Same way
Too
And want
To swim
And slip away
In any instant
To my liking
In the deepest
Sea
But I am
Not a fish
so why
not just
stay and
wait
and see? .
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
168
You may feel
That your life
Is full of sorrow
And sometimes
Unbearable
But you just
Cannot fly away
When you
Feel
Like flying
In any instant
Since you
Are not a bird
I may feel the
Same way
Too
And want
To swim
And slip away
In any instant
To my liking
In the deepest
Sea
But I am
Not a fish
so why
not just
stay and
wait
and see? .
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
It Call All End In An Instant
IT CAN ALL END IN AN INSTANT
It could all end in an instant-
From a direction we never thought of,
All that we have taken for granted
Can disappear,
And leave us in longing for small ordinary things
Which once meant next to nothing to us-
It can come from within ourselves,
Or from without-
At my age I have seen it happen to many-
One day they are walking around alright
And the next day they are never alright again-
I fear
It can all end in an instant
And there is no way to make certain it won't.
poem by Shalom Freedman
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Before Meeting
I know not how our eyes first met,
I only know that, night by night,
For one long instant we forget
All but our instant of delight.
Child, I have never heard you speak,
I know not of your face by day,
Nor if the rose upon your cheek
With night's spent roses faints away.
So far apart from me you seem,
Ever about to be so near,
I must have dreamed you in some dream,
I do but dream that you are here.
Well, no awakening may there be!
I look to you in fairy-land,
From fairy-land you look to me,
We smile, and seem to understand.
poem by Arthur Symons
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
quote by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
quote by Paul Sweeney
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I Walk And Suddenly Feel Young Again
I WALK AND SUDDENLY FEEL YOUNG AGAIN
I walk and suddenly feel young again-
Nothing hurts-
Long strides without pain-
Ease and grace
Just walking-
Nothing hurts-
In an instant
For an instant
Young again-
.
poem by Shalom Freedman
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
In A Minute
One morning the world looked different
The sky had lost all it’s light
Everything looks different thanks to
- the voice in my dream last night
Change happens in an instant
But it must start with you
Change happens forever
I choose you, I choose you
From now on the world is different
Stretched forever by this new experience
Everything around is so unreal
The voice has lost its pretence
Change happened in an instant
Bit has to start with you
Make yourself believe it
Do what’s best for you
poem by Michael WheelerWyatt
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Love In Star Burst Breathes
with universal wonder
sail solar winds seed
love in star burst breathes
arching out spanning across
interstellar womb light space
dancing web cosmic stories
with universal wonder
embrace creation light seed
love into all life at light
speed too slow too slow seed
love into all life at thought
speed instant crosses solar systems
galaxy universe in an instant
in time crosses multi universes
in an instant of time love seeds
sent reach all receptive hearts
instantly love has no time to waste
sing bliss into multiple worlds
of life loving universal wonder
God is love love is transpermia life
love is life intergalactic thunder
poem by Terence George Craddock
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Hands Made Of Dust
butterfly....
flash for an instant,
then gone forever,
leaving only the echoes
of your small fragile wings
riding the wind....
eternity, an instant,
nothing else needed,
holding starlight
in the palms
of hands made of dust!
poem by Eric Cockrell
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
A Definition Of Trust
Trust is instant immediate.
Trust happens all at once.
Or trust does not happen?
Trust is not time relative.
Trust does not grow with time.
Trust is instant connection?
Trust is instant knowing.
Trust is a click perception.
Or awkward impossibility?
Personalities incompatible.
Can never click connect.
Can never trust reconcile?
Even friendship may be impossible.
True trust patterns in true friendship.
True trust is an elixir of possibilities.
poem by Terence George Craddock
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
quote by Samuel Beckett
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Number 8
It was a face which darkness could kill
in an instant
a face as easily hurt
by laughter or light
'We think differently at night'
she told me once
lying back languidly
And she would quote Cocteau
'I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say
'whom I am constantly shocking'
Then she would smile and look away
light a cigarette for me
sigh and rise
and stretch
her sweet anatomy
let fall a stocking
poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Pink Ego Box
Its gonna be ok
Cant afford another day
At 50 bytes per second
Ive never seen your face
Ive never heard your voice
But I think I like it
When you instant message me
With a promise
I can feel it
I can tell youre gonna be
Just like me
My eyes are gonna strain
My heart is feeling pain
At 50 beats per second
Ive never seen your eyes
Ive never heard your liesbut I think I like it
When you instant message me
With a promise
I can feel it
I can tell youre gonna be
Just like me
Just like me
You tell
You tell
You turn on me
song performed by by Muse
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Instant Messenger
Its gonna be ok
I cant afford another day
At 50 bytes per second
Ive never seen your face
Ive never heard your voice
But I think I like it
When you instant message me
With a promise
I can feel it
I can tell youre gonna be
Just like me
My eyes are gonna strained
My heart is feeling pain
At 50 beats per second
Ive never seen your eyes
Ive never heard your lies
But I think I like it
When you instant message me
With a promise
I can feel it
I can tell youre gonna be
Just like me
Just like me
You tell
You tell
You tell my name
song performed by by Muse
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Just Follow That Yellow Brick Road
Instant gratification?
I'm sorry I don't have it here for you,
Like that.
And there is nothing on my path that says I should.
Have you been modified to accept rejection?
I hope so.
I would hate to be the one to break your heart,
With a pinch of reality and a dash of a thought process.
The instant gratification you might be seeking...
May be found at another address.
Just follow that yellow brick road.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
The Anguish of a Mirage
They faded, the last bands of reddish,
Like whispers of prayers in night,
O tale, such seductive and maddish,
What else do you want of this heart?
Are not, beyond measure and count,
So hard in the snows my ways?
Aren’t gray empty spaces around?
Isn’t husky the ring of the bells?
And why, every minute and instant,
My heart is divided in two?
I know that she is in distance,
But feel her right near me, too.
Here they are, the snowy clouds,
I can’t take my eyes from all that:
Right now, shall merge our routs
In snows, so white and so dead.
Right now will be silently bound
And newly unbound our sleighs.
We’ll hear the bell’s common sound
In an instant of sadness and pains…
We’d heard… But we’ll not any more
Have meeting in this hazy night…
In the circle of anguish and woe
I wander on my path of blight…
They faded, the last bands of reddish,
Like whispers of prayers in night,
O tale, such seductive and maddish,
What else do you want of this heart?
poem by Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Star Burst
We come from naught and so return,
But for an instant brightly burn;
Eternal sleep is black as night,
With life a fleeting flash of light
poem by Dennis N. O'Brien
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!