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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2010-12-18 03:33 PM

The clock is ticking, yes it is,
tick-tick, tick-tick, tick-tick,
and there is no place for a "tock"
in time's determined rhythm.

I could be a "tock", you know,
just to upset the beat
and be the manner and the means
of chaos and confusion.

Now to be conciliatory
I could be a tut-tut-tut.
Tick-tick, tut-tut,
and how is that
for soothing troubled waters?

It sometimes happens, yes it does,
when a "but-but" makes its debut
in an attempt to balance
a misaligned perception.

It's worse, you know, than any "tock"
because suddenly the cot is cleared
of all the toys that lay around
to comfort and placate.

All in all it's best to be
a silent nod-nod-nod.
Tick-tick, nod-nod,
and there I go on my way unscathed.

Tick-tick, tick-tick, no matter what
because time is such to simply be
the force behind a movement
that sends the present into past.

It doesn't lie there, no, no, no,
but climbs up the hands of time
and swings down like a monkey
into tomorrow's land.

A "tock", tut-tut, but-but, nod,
and time undaunted tick-tick-ticks!

Helen / 18 December 2010

JerryPat
Senior Member

since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

1 posted 2010-12-18 04:26 PM

It's the nod-nod that bedevils moi as the tick-tick changes course and becomes a series of k-tock,k-tock, k-tock's. See what you have unleashed, Helen?

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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2010-12-18 04:36 PM

I see, I see!

Andrew Scott
Member Elite

since 1999-06-24

Posts 2558
Redlands,CA,USA

3 posted 2010-12-18 05:38 PM

Tic is the Vic
That toc wants to mock
But with a tut-tut-tut
The nod says
It’s best to keep shut
For chaos
Cannot exist
In the perfect void
of
Ordered silence
And passing time

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Hope you don't mind, but this is where you took me. I enjoyed your words and thank you for the inspiration. Peace.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2010-12-19 01:31 AM

No, I don't mind, Andrew. It's been known for many years that if a story teller wants to become a poet then they must edit/delete - and so from a story teller to a poet, cheers! May you have a great festive season. You said it very well, by the way!

Helen

Prats
Member

since 2010-12-16

Posts 74

5 posted 2010-12-19 06:30 AM

nice poem... i enjoyed reading it...

Heaven is not that place where you go when you die... it's that time in your life when you actually feel ALIVE!!!

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

6 posted 2010-12-19 12:03 PM

Oh I know what you mean Helen, when that but-but comes along it really throws a monkey wrench into the entire works.

I'd take a tick any day like you say it's always going to be.
Of course a nod-nod keeps you safely on the outside too....Oh the choices that can hurt many different ways!

Loved it!

Eric

My favorite oxymoron, "rap music"

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

7 posted 2010-12-19 12:26 PM

Thanks, Prats and Eric. I don't think I'll make a good non-nod because I'm never on the outside but, hey, always a first time for everything. New Year's resolution - be a nod amidst the ticks - and when I say it no one will understand it! That can be a good thing too.

Helen

Earl Brinkman
Senior Member

since 2010-03-03

Posts 1183
Osaka, Japan

8 posted 2010-12-21 03:53 PM

So quirky and different that one cannot help but to love this piece.

vandana

Member Patricius

since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

9 posted 2010-12-21 07:04 PM

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

10 posted 2010-12-22 04:01 PM

I really liked this....so different, and fun...like you...hugs, Lee J.

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