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Marking Time...with a chall. to you all thrown in
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Marking Time...with a chall. to you all thrown in |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
Marking Time marking time is that what life is? marking time Monday’s laundry Tuesday’s trip special number at my hip has it come up did I win, sense of hope growing thin Wednesday’s mowing Thursday’s grass Friday’s goodness thankfully passed. Saturday’s shopping seeking fun Sunday’s wisdom growing numb. daily regimen clicking away routinely rutted in life’s domain what of the famous do they dribble away the hours, the days, the weeks they play click, click, click tick, tick, tick minutes, hours pass the nick of marking time is that what life is? marking time reason, rhyme, marking time? ©July 22, 2002 The Tuesday number has to do with Bi-Mart, a discount store. Every Tuesday, about 30 numbers are displayed, giving their owners an opportunity to win an item. You must go in and find your number there, though. I've never won one of the better prizes. About every ten weeks, the last digit in my number will be a prize that has a value of 1-3 dollars. Anyway, this poem was prompted by considering how most of life seems to be clicking off the mundane with a holiday thrown in now and then and highlighted with some mighty wonderful special events. Often, in the later years, those special events decrease in frequency, especially as one's family/extended family begins to dissipate. Sorry about the heavy thoughts for a Monday...maybe it's because it's a Monday.As I wrote the previous sentence, I felt a flicker of excitement in making a challenge. The idea has completely escaped me, but in trying to rediscover it, I'm wondering if it was something like...Finding the Flicker in Monday's Mundane. Are you up to the challenge? Whether on the shoal or on the shore, |
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the_loner_23 Member Ascendant
since 2002-06-08
Posts 5479Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
Awesome Cold hands means a warm heart |
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Toerag Member Ascendant
since 1999-07-29
Posts 5622Ala bam a |
good write... |
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