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georgek
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0 posted 2009-06-08 08:20 PM



The wizened old man of Wizpuri Dock
Had lifted hs eyes to his grandfather's clock
He gazed with a smile.... and pondered a while,
Then shook his grey fist at the great wooden block

He came "fourth in the mile", but hindered a while
For now he was old and decrepid and vile
Not a smile had he dared, for those who had stared
As he hobbled along from Wizpuri Dock


He grasped his last breath, as he forcast his death
For the time he had guessed was more than his best
In time he had called for man and his lord
But dithered and croaked as he suffered a stroke

Fell to his old feet all laden with grief
Frail and defeated or like a bloated graffitist
He looked at the time, hence grappled a smile
As he groveled and choked all bewildered and broke


He fell on his back that had tumbled and cracked
And gazed at the clock from Wizpuri Dock
The clock it had struck...... without even a cluck
As the wiizened old man lay dead as a duck

Had he strived back in time and altered it's chime?
Then would he have died as he gazed at the time?
All tightened and torqued despite that he was short

Like the clock on the wall that cheated his fall
To alter it's chime from the clement of time?
That man should stay tall despite his great fall
Is to kindle the lines of the face on the dial?
As to tell it stop by a man at the dock

To lay dead at it's heel at Wizpuri Dock!
But.... suffer the men who looks ill at their clock!
As nothing will move, and all is still as a rock!
From ghosts that are born....from Wizpuri Dock.

© Copyright 2009 georgek - All Rights Reserved
Bloodline
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since 2009-05-23
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Oklahoma
1 posted 2009-06-08 08:32 PM


As grand a tale as any,
and much the smile and
glimmer within,

Bloodline

georgek
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since 2009-06-07
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2 posted 2009-06-08 10:53 PM


Many thanks....

George

steavenr
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3 posted 2009-06-16 10:26 AM


I loved the story-line & the moral, but my favorite part has to be its grand 'read aloud quotient"--extremely high, indeed
viking_metal
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In a Jeep, Minnesota.
4 posted 2009-06-16 10:56 AM


absolutely arrsome.

-P

Everyone deserves to be loved, even you.

georgek
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since 2009-06-07
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5 posted 2009-06-23 11:26 PM


Just to show that 'time' rules our destiny.
Although real....very abstract.

George

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