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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2006-05-26 03:37 AM

Eighteen minutes after the hour
and I might as well simply sneeze
because it’s so in between
the definite and the precise.

It’s a no time and nothing
like the moment before
every life saving breath I take
or a pause on the doorstep
before going out.

Eighteen minutes after the hour
and it’s gone like a flash of insight
with no bells a-ringing or cuckoo’s a-singing
straight to the depths of past
unseen, unnoticed, and un-validated.

It’s not even diarized for reflection after the fact
or given a future life by paging forward in time
but I stopped today; could it be I am praying
for order out of the chaos?

But now it is gone and I cannot say
when next I will stop to pray
because eighteen minutes after the hour
seems not to make any difference
to the definite and the precise
movement of human life!

Helen / 26 May 2006

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2006-05-26 07:54 AM

A sound of Carpe Diem indeed!

Thank you, dear!

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2006-05-26 12:24 PM

Helen

"But now it is gone and I cannot say
when next I will stop to pray
because eighteen minutes after the hour
seems not to make any difference
to the definite and the precise
movement of human life!"

Ahhh, but that time wrote a poem within...a good thing I think.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2006-05-26 12:31 PM

Sunshine and Martie - thank you!

I don't know, Martie, if it's such a good thing really - ask me on the hour.

StevenS
Senior Member

since 2005-09-21

Posts 945
L. A. (Lower Alabama)

4 posted 2006-05-26 02:42 PM

Sometimes I think my clock has stopped at eighteen after Honeybunch. Enjoyed! :-)

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

5 posted 2006-05-26 05:42 PM

Thanks, Steven. Yes, well, I think mine definitely stopped in that no time and nothing but I've learnt that, if nothing else, I am adaptable.

Survival demands it!

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