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Rod
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0 posted 2000-01-08 04:04 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.

©2000 Rod Walford


© Copyright 2000 Rod Walford - All Rights Reserved
Elizabeth Santos
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1 posted 2000-01-08 07:07 AM


Rod,
I feel as though I am reading verse for the first time. I don't know yet what it is. I haven't yet begun to learn to write poetry. Each verse here, each word, is significant to the whole, not one wasted word or phrase and so meaningful a poem it is in so many ways. It is truly a beautiful piece, it is a poem of love, and timeless love and timeless time.I love this poem
Liz

hoot_owl_rn
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2 posted 2000-01-08 08:36 AM


Applauding here...Rod, this is wonderful. The meter and rhyme are nearly flawless and the message it speaks, beautiful!!!
Nan
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3 posted 2000-01-08 10:42 AM


YES - YES - YES - YES - YES - YES - YES!!!!!

Meadowmuse
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4 posted 2000-01-08 10:52 AM


Seldom has one the earnest pleasure
of reading such a "Timeless" treasure.

Thank you for the gifting.  

Dear LadyClaire



Mary
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Delaware, Ohio, USA
5 posted 2000-01-08 10:54 AM


This is simply beautiful...I love it!
Michael
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6 posted 2000-01-08 10:59 AM


Oh man, got chills on this one.  You are a gifted poet, Rod.

Michael

Martie
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7 posted 2000-01-08 02:09 PM


Wonderful piece here Rod, in every way superb!

 In the dew of little things,
the heart finds its morning
and is refreshed.
(ee cummings)

Poet deVine
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Hurricane Alley
8 posted 2000-01-08 02:13 PM


Beautiful! Life is a circle..never beginning, never ending!  

Seymour Tabin
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9 posted 2000-01-08 02:26 PM


Rod,
I agree with Elizabeth and all the others.
You have great talent and a poetic brother.

Denise
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10 posted 2000-01-08 03:40 PM


What can I say that hasn't already been said? This left me speechless, breathless. Such a timeless and loving quality to it. This one is definitely a masterpiece!

 Denise


Eloise
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11 posted 2000-01-08 07:16 PM


Rod, this is absolutely beautiful.  The imagery is wonderful.  Clapping hard with a standing ovation!!  
Marge Tindal
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12 posted 2000-01-08 09:34 PM


Rod -
Just so very close to perfection is this piece.
My heart likes it very much.
Love ~Marge~

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13 posted 2000-01-08 09:43 PM


I do agree with all. Excellent work, Rod.
sandgrain
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Sycamore, IL, USA
14 posted 2000-01-09 12:58 PM


Just had a chance to read this, Rod, and how blessed I feel for the opportunity.  Your writings are supurb!
Elizabeth Santos
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15 posted 2000-01-09 03:33 PM


Where it stops nobody knows
And so back to the top it goes!
(This one should stay there)
Liz

Rosemary J. Gwaltney
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16 posted 2000-01-09 05:37 PM


This poem is breathtakingly lovely!  Meticulously worded, it paints the pictures of ocean and time, with haunting and poignant imagery and memories.  I love it!




 ...Living is ever like crossing rivers; finding a new life on each shore ... RJG



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