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Time Isn't Everything

Time Isn't Everything

A Poem by Nicholas Duboe
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A poem based on the concept of being able to capture time. I hope you enjoy it!

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Time Isn't Everything


If I could trap time in a bottle,

I promise I'd use it for good,

I'd give my mom a few more years,

and give my daughters all I could.


I'd tie the bottles in beautiful ribbon,

I'd tie them up in silky bows,

I'd give a lot of them away as gifts,

Or sell them in traveling shows.


Perhaps they'd call me Father Time,

As they came to see my face,

Maybe to get a bottle from me,

Wrapped up in pretty lace.


But all the people I had seen,

Would inevitably fall away,

As I couldn't give time to everyone,

To live another day.


Then I'd sit alone with all my time,

With nothing left but me,

And realize that time isn't everything,

But the people within it, you see.

© 2018 Nicholas Duboe


Author's Note

Nicholas Duboe
Thanks for reading! Please feel free to let me know what you think!

(Also feel free to check out my other poem "The Wind Still Needs a Chime" as it is in the same fashion as this piece and hopefully I will be able to create a series of these.)

Extra info on this poem:
1st Place in a WC contest with 62 submissions.
Runner Up in a WC contest with 97 submissions.
2nd Best Poet in a WC contest with 21 submissions.

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this is absolutely amazing. i loved the concept and the portrayal of how time is so important and valuable but at the end of the day. its the people within the time frame who are more valuable
loved th structure and the words you used for such a powerful poem

Posted 5 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Nicholas Duboe

5 Years Ago

Thank you very much! I always love the comments I get on this particular piece. I am glad you read i.. read more



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Super, this is absolutely true

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Posted 6 Years Ago


Nicholas Duboe

6 Years Ago

Thank you very much
This is so beautiful! I really love the opening lines - very powerful. I think the simplicity of the language is probably my favourite part because it means the true focus is on its message.

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Posted 6 Years Ago


Nicholas Duboe

6 Years Ago

I appreciate it thank you
so wonderful this is.....great work...beautifully penned.

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Posted 6 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Nicholas Duboe

6 Years Ago

Thank you so much
Wajiha Nayeem

6 Years Ago

pleasure....
This is great work. Reall great work. It's a truely beautiful poem, start to finish.

Great job

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Posted 6 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Nicholas Duboe

6 Years Ago

Thank you very much!
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CMC
Incredible, breathtaking, magnificent. All words that don't live up to the stunning energy this poem outputs. Time is indeed not everything, but rather who we spend it with.

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Posted 6 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Nicholas Duboe

6 Years Ago

Wow what a great comment I really appreciate it! It means a lot to me
This is beautiful. Rhyming but not trite. I especially like the 4th stanza. This reads like a beautiful song, and could probably be set to a lovely melody, maybe guitar. I was all dreamy-eyed as I neared the end!

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1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Nicholas Duboe

6 Years Ago

Thank you very much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it
I really enjoyed this poem, very straight and to the point. But yet this has a story that is so beautiful. Great job

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Posted 6 Years Ago


Nicholas Duboe

6 Years Ago

Thank you! Im so glad you enjoyed it and I appreciate your comment!
Unique, i really enjoy your work

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Posted 6 Years Ago


Nicholas Duboe

6 Years Ago

Thank you very much!
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This comparison you draw of time and people is so smart.
We think moments are all we own
but maybe the people who exist in our life is all we could ever have

Bravo

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Posted 6 Years Ago


Nicholas Duboe

6 Years Ago

Thank you very much! I really appreciate it!
That was wonderful. Not only were you able to create emotion in the poem, but a little bit of a story as well. The motto of the here and now, not what I could have done is very strongly implied in this poem. Great Job. I look forward to your future works.

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Posted 8 Years Ago


Nicholas Duboe

8 Years Ago

Im very glad you like it! This is actually part of a series of poems. "The Wind Still Needs a Chime".. read more

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Nicholas Duboe
Nicholas Duboe

Bowie, TX



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Hello there, my username is a pen name to be honest but I am currently 26 years old. I am a husband, a father and a son. I am also a poet and attempting novelist. I began writing years ago using Books.. more..

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