»
Archives
»
Open Poetry #2
»
The Chimes
| Open Poetry #2 |
|
The Chimes |
|
|
Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
|
The Chimes On the event of our tenth anniversary, in trust, a gift of sound and time was given to us, one that ticks toward and from the here and now with chimes that beseech a courtly bow. The grandfather clock of ancestral time brings forth birth, death, and allows ties to bind with its deep, rich bell tolling, marking signs of passage gone fast, with the past intertwined. The heavy pendulum swings east and west the weights hang heavy, an ever falling quest hung back by chains moving quiet and slow holding history as if in a resonant glow. The comfort of sound of the chimes as they toll, bringing together time, making it whole, from one’s very moment, then to the next keeping life at it’s best, most ebulliently complex. ‘Tis easy enough to get lost in the chimes taking me far far back into lost time when life was slower, not so fast paced and one didn’t engage in a virtual race. For when the bonging sounds enter my ear, traces of Lancelot and Camelot’s time come near and I swear Merlin’s sorcery is working its best and the chimes make me feel so very at rest. For I would have been Guinevere the queen, holding forth in Arthur’s court, and then, serene, the chimes bring me back to the future, my time; and it’s with reverence that I love the sound of the chimes. ©KRJ 3 September, 1999 ------------------ Sunshine Words will always express our feelings true. ~~~ KRJ Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [This message has been edited by Sunshine (edited 09-05-99).] |
||
| © Copyright 1999 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved | |||
|
Denise
Moderator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Very lovely, Sunshine. Quite fanciful! I loved reading this one!  ------------------ Denise |
||
|
Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Thank you Denise...I enjoyed working on it! |
||
|
Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Sunshine, The chimes of your times Is not of mine But the wine of thine. May it ever chime so. |
||
|
Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Sy, whatever ticks your tock...may it forever work. |
||
|
Sue Member
since 1999-08-04
Posts 383France |
I don't want to be a wet blanket, but Maid Marian was Robin Hood's girlfriend, not King Arthur's. Not that it matters in the least, I really enjoyed the poem. |
||
|
Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Oh man, I hate it when that happens. Thanks so much, Sue, for catching my blurp! |
||
|
Balladeer
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Don't worry, Sunshine. Rumor has it she used to sneak over to Arthur's on Friday nights. At least, he talked about having it maid in the shade! Your poem is excellent. |
||
|
Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
'Deer, I missed your response to this: it "maid" me feel much better! |
||
|
Sundance Member
since 1999-07-11
Posts 123 |
nicely done sunshine!  |
||
|
WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
Grandfather clocks are quite elegant. As was your poem, thanks for taking us back! |
||
|
hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Sunshine, this is beautiful...I believe youposted it once before if I'm not mistaken. I enjoyed it as much this time as last. Thanks for sharing. ------------------ "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer" ~Albert Camus |
||
|
Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
No Hoot, I posted this on the date recorded...but you may have read it earlier and just didn't have a chance to respond. However, if my poems are starting to sound the same, I may need to see a shrink! |
||
|
|
⇧ top of page ⇧ |
|
| All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format. | ||