Open Poetry #14 |
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Clockworked Questioning |
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Cpat Hair![]()
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
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? |
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
"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 ![]() |
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Interloper![]() ![]()
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
A question asked countelss times. |
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MARK V SHELDON Member Elite
since 2001-06-21
Posts 3015In a corporeal internship... |
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." |
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Lady In White![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
since 2001-02-12
Posts 2799USA |
Very Serling of you..... |
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RMW Senior Member
since 2001-03-21
Posts 1424 |
Excellent! "hook!...hook!...hook!...hook!" .... to paraphrase the Croc. Loved this, Capt. Bob |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Cpat--time is such an interesting subject..I enjoyed your take on the tick of it. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
There have been many songs and poems and writing concerning the passage of time...this poem brings a few to memory...James |
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walker Member Elite
since 2001-02-11
Posts 2240Florida |
One the things that we can't control, great poem! |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
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 |
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Sven![]() ![]()
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
stop the hands. . . it can be done. . . well spoken Sir. . . --------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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