The Neutral Liquidity Of Time [thank you to Seymour Tabin for the inspire]

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Open Poetry #31

The Neutral Liquidity Of Time [thank you to Seymour Tabin for the inspire]

MARK V SHELDON
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0 posted 2004-02-22 06:57 PM

The Neutral Liquidity Of Time

Copyright 2004 by: Mark V Sheldon

Memories ebb while life laps at the feet
blushing them with cold reality
dirt washed away
replaced by naive bubbles
which burst inevitably by design

Imprints of paths taken
dilute, dissolve, then disappear
at the turn of the tide
for the force knows
no other way

It’s a short distance
between an hourglass of sand
and a sunny beach submerged
by the moon’s weighty smirk
but the light still reflects a pattern

Flotsam experiences
float up to taunt
then pull back again
in predictable cycles
under toe and undertaking

Yet we still wait
for the ship to come in
on the seventh wave
forgetting we lost the count
a long time ago

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passing shadows
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1 posted 2004-02-22 06:59 PM

"It’s a short distance
between an hourglass of sand
and a sunny beach submerged
by the moon’s weighty smirk
but the light still reflects a pattern"

I love the ending too

Enchantress
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2 posted 2004-02-22 07:00 PM

"Yet we still wait
for the ship to come in
on the seventh wave
forgetting we lost the count
a long time ago"

Remarkable write here Mark!
And how very true...how true.
Hugs~

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      his and mine are the same. ~

steavenr
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3 posted 2004-02-25 12:03 PM

loved the lines:

"a sunny beach submerged
by the moon’s weighty smirk"

such vivid imagery...such a neat way to express the natural sovereignty of the moon over the ebb and flow of the tide and all that that particular metaphor affords

MARK V SHELDON
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4 posted 2004-02-25 01:26 PM

Thank you, Dixie.

Nancy -- yes, more true than many will admit...

steavenr: Thank you for the observations and notations...

-MVS

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