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Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

0 posted 2001-07-06 11:03 AM

Which are you?
Friend?
Enemy?

You hang in stoic fashion
There on the wall,
Collecting dust
Always moving your hands
In slow inescapable tedium.
Your only complaint
Chimed on the hour asking
Someone to pay attention.

You ignore the pleadings
To hurry…. Or to slow…
You measure each man that passes
With the same fairness,
Yet seem to favor those
Who become slaves to your credo…
That every second counts.

Counts…
In tick time fashion the fading
Or waxing of lives…

You stand as a hateful reminder
Of mortality and the limits
Placed by biological fault
In each of us… staring…
With placid face unchanged.

Task master, tick- tock,
Telling time…
Are you friend?
Or enemy sublime?

SEA

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

1 posted 2001-07-06 11:06 AM

"You stand as a hateful reminder
Of mortality and the limits
Placed by biological fault
In each of us… staring…
With placid face unchanged."

excellent!

been thinking along these lines myself lately

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

2 posted 2001-07-06 11:13 AM

A question asked countelss times.

MARK V SHELDON
Member Elite

since 2001-06-21

Posts 3015
In a corporeal internship...

3 posted 2001-07-06 11:40 AM

I say, take out the batteries -- that way, it'll only be right twice a day. ;->

-MVS

"If you think you know it all, you have a lot to learn."

"Everyone can hear; few can listen."

Lady In White

Member Elite

since 2001-02-12

Posts 2799
USA

4 posted 2001-07-06 11:43 AM

Very Serling of you.....

RMW
Senior Member

since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

5 posted 2001-07-06 02:02 PM

Excellent! "hook!...hook!...hook!...hook!" .... to paraphrase the Croc. Loved this, Capt. Bob

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

6 posted 2001-07-06 02:31 PM

Cpat--time is such an interesting subject..I enjoyed your take on the tick of it.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

7 posted 2001-07-06 03:05 PM

There have been many songs and poems and writing concerning the passage of time...this poem brings a few to memory...James

walker
Member Elite

since 2001-02-11

Posts 2240
Florida

8 posted 2001-07-06 03:13 PM

One the things that we can't control, great poem!

brian madden
Member Elite

since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

9 posted 2001-07-07 01:05 PM

Task master, tick- tock,
Telling time…
Are you friend?
Or enemy sublime?

We are seconds slowly slipping away
until the day when our time be
comes timeless.

Cpat loved this poem.

"Like Sand underneath the snow, I make you mine." Kristin Hersh

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

10 posted 2001-07-07 06:31 PM

stop the hands. . . it can be done. . .

well spoken Sir. . .

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