Timeless (repost from 2000)

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Open Poetry #40

Timeless (repost from 2000)

Rod
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since 1999-12-08

Posts 149
Auckland New Zealand

0 posted 2007-02-18 02:51 AM

TIMELESS
Today I stood upon the shore
Where Grandad walked in days of yore;
Along its sandy, glossy sheen
Where once, his imprint would have been.

And thereupon I did behold
‘Twas here, when I was two years old;
I dangled from his stalwart hands
In gleeful awe of foaming sands.

So timeless now, this scene appears
It’s altered not these fifty years
Nor hundreds, thousands gone before;
As restless wave greets silent shore.

Still endless rolling surf she brings;
Now to my little son she sings.
I held him in her gentle lee,
The way my Grandad once held me.

As every wavelet’s dying throes
Washed tiny grains between my toes;
Methought perhaps, that in his day,
For every grain, a pebble lay.

Eroded by the tick and tock
Of oscillating tidal clock;
Its pulsing rhythm, all abounding
In softest kiss, or anger pounding.

I pondered what it all may mean;
Our ocean’s mighty time machine.
Where pebbles, hardened, flat or round,
By rolling surf to sand are ground.

From rock to stone to pebbled grain
To sand, and back to rock again.....
As, in our turn, we surely must
Become as ashes........ dust to dust.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

ivordavies
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since 2007-01-10

Posts 739
Chester, England

1 posted 2007-02-18 09:49 AM

And if you repost it in another 7 years it will not have eroded the feelings and memories this poetry exudes....

Ivor

SmartChick
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since 2001-09-23

Posts 7081
On A Journey To The Unknown

2 posted 2007-02-18 10:06 AM

Very well done.

SEA

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Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

3 posted 2007-02-18 07:16 PM

"Eroded by the tick and tock
Of oscillating tidal clock;
Its pulsing rhythm, all abounding
In softest kiss, or anger pounding"

I really like the flow of this..
glad you reposted it.

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