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ivordavies
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since 2007-01-10
Posts 739
Chester, England

0 posted 2007-02-16 02:55 AM


The Present

Tomorrow is the future
Yesterday’s the past
But the present is the moment
That eternally will last

You can live for your tomorrows
You can stay within your past
But you’re living in the present
And the present’s going to last

The things you do tomorrow
And those done yesterday
Are all done in the present
That you live along the way

You can’t avoid the present
You can’t escape it’s claim
For both History and Future
Are just tenses of it’s name

If your living for the moment
Then all time belongs to you
So be sure you use it wisely
For it stays your whole life through

Ivor G Davies

The moment created this second, is a  moment that's going to last.
It lives the full spectrum of time, the future, the present and past.

© Copyright 2007 Ivor G Davies - All Rights Reserved
Rod
Member
since 1999-12-08
Posts 149
Auckland New Zealand
1 posted 2007-02-16 04:50 AM


Hi Ivor!
I like this...poems about time fascinate me.

"The shadow by my finger cast
Divides the future from the past
Beyomd its unreturning line
The vanished time...no longer thine"

1st verse of an anonymous poem...inscribed on a sundial.

Good huh?

passing shadows
Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
2 posted 2007-02-16 06:57 AM


great message!
LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296

3 posted 2007-02-16 08:34 AM


The things you do tomorrow
And those done yesterday
Are all done in the present
That you live along the way


Love your lessons thru words, experience and life's happenstance....great write

ivordavies
Senior Member
since 2007-01-10
Posts 739
Chester, England
4 posted 2007-02-21 07:34 PM


Thank you all for taking the 'time' to give me feedback on this.

As can be seen by my signature, time fascinates me also.  As you read this response every passing word falls into the past with the future waiting to be read, which will also become the past.

There is ONLY the moment....

Ivor

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