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Madame Chipmunk
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Michigan

0 posted 2002-06-13 10:25 PM

The clock on the wall
says its ten past the hour
it's visage in a smirk
of retrograde sour

all of the numerals
ensconced on time's face
have reversed their arrangement
their order, displaced

as eight precedes seven
the tocks become ticks
and the ticks become tocks
as five follows six

time marching backwards
antitheical reason
a warp of the senses
and structure of season

spring follows summer
which comes after fall
when we peer through life's mirror
at the clock on the wall

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

sigheyes
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since 2001-04-25

Posts 323
the winds of destiny

1 posted 2002-06-13 10:30 PM

This is absolutely stunning!

Gentle Spirit
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since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

2 posted 2002-06-13 10:31 PM

spring follows summer
                                             which comes after fall
                                      when we peer through life's mirror
                                            at the clock on the wall

You are such a clever lil chipmunk madame.  This verse is wonderful, this poem is beautiful.....(much like the lady who wrote the beauty...

hugs

I could have missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the dance~~(Garth)

the_loner_23
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since 2002-06-08

Posts 5479
Jacksonville, Florida, USA

3 posted 2002-06-13 10:32 PM

All I can say is beautiful.

Cold hands means a warm heart

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2002-06-13 10:41 PM

Very beautiful....very creative!!
~Hugs~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain~

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

5 posted 2002-06-13 10:59 PM

Very original, enjoyed this very much!
And think of it, if time is going backwards, we'd be getting younger, too! Wahoo!

Cor

Greeneyes

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since 2000-09-09

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In Your Poetic Mind

6 posted 2002-06-14 12:58 PM

lovely you, lovely this....yes, let time move backwards.....for a little while any way..

hugsss

Lauren~

Its been a long road
Getting from there to here
Ive known a wind so cold, seen the darkest days
but now the winds I feel are only winds of change

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

7 posted 2002-06-14 04:06 AM

Delightful....eveyone needs this read!

ShadowRider
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since 2001-07-14

Posts 1038
USA

8 posted 2002-06-14 07:51 AM

to the Great Lyra-cist:
If time is our perception of how to spend life
who is to say that we cannot force the arms
backwards
to relive the memories

Birds of a feather, huh, you and I writing clock pieces (no pun intended)
on the same day! This is YOU, Munkster, at your writing finest!
~happy day hugs~
jeff

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

9 posted 2002-06-14 08:53 AM

Lyra~
Sometimes we reach deep and find such beauty of thought~
You have sure done that with this piece~
Love it !
*Hugs*
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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bags123
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since 2002-06-06

Posts 128

10 posted 2002-06-14 09:33 AM

I liked Lotsa! I had this happen to me in 1968.

Startime
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since 2000-10-03

Posts 5918
Canada

11 posted 2002-06-14 11:52 AM

BRILLIANT!!! BRILLIANT!!! I LOVE IT....

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

12 posted 2002-06-15 01:17 AM

Sigheyes...I thank you very much, and I am glad you enjoyed it.

~ hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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13 posted 2002-06-15 01:19 AM

Donna...thanks so much for that extremely effusive compliment...
I will dream about that all night tonight...

beautiful...hmmmmm! I like that

~ night time hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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14 posted 2002-06-15 01:21 AM

Thanks so much, Julie...I'm glad you enjoyed the poem.

~ lots of hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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15 posted 2002-06-15 01:23 AM

Thanks so much, Nancy...I certainly value your input, as you are are a wonderfully talanted poet.

~ poetic hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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16 posted 2002-06-15 01:24 AM

Thanks Corinne, Getting younger...I hadn't even thought of that one...
but that would make me VERY happy.

~ hugs for youth

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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17 posted 2002-06-15 01:25 AM

Thanks Lauren...I think we all need a little regression sometimes.

~ regressive hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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Michigan

18 posted 2002-06-15 01:26 AM

Thanks Eric...tonight, I would love to go backwards in time for just a bit.

~ hugs in reverse

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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19 posted 2002-06-15 01:29 AM

Thank you so much, Jeff...I'm glad you enjoyed the poem...I enjoyed your clock poem also....
I guess we are clockmates, whatever that means

~ ticking hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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Michigan

20 posted 2002-06-15 01:31 AM

Thanks so much, Marge....I actually got the idea when I happened to glimpse a clock in a mirror...
That was a couple of months ago and I just wrote the idea down on a scrap of paper.
I was cleaning up, the other day ( a rare occurrence lately) when I discovered the scrap of paper....

~ timely hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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Michigan

21 posted 2002-06-15 01:32 AM

Thanks so much for your reply, Bags...
I would be interested in knowing how time marched backwards for you in 1968

~ hugs in reverse

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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Posts 8296
Michigan

22 posted 2002-06-15 01:34 AM

Thank you so much, Karen....I am so flattered by your compliment that my head may not fit through the door of the computer room tonight and I may never get to sleep...

~ tick tock hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Mistletoe Angel

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Portland, Oregon

23 posted 2002-06-16 04:04 PM

(smiles) Oh my gosh, I know just how you feel, sometimes when the seasons repeat themselves it always feels time is going backwards as spring and autumn seem parallel and summer and winter are opposites like positive and negative! (kiss on cheek) This is lovely, sweet friend, I never thought of time this way, this is wonderful, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Lyra, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

Madame Chipmunk
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Posts 8296
Michigan

24 posted 2002-06-17 08:09 PM

Thanks Noah...I got the idea for this poem when I looked into a mirror and noticed that there was a clock behind me and it was moving in reverse...it got me started thinking of all of this stuff.

~ timely hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

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