Category: Time Poems
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Deconstruction Time Zone
Lay-off notice read aloud at a tiny office table; they do not notice or know it’s the exact day twenty years ago I walked into that office; could they really care less. I’m talking two decades double X I think – where there’s a will there’s a way forward. This isn’t a knock out X…
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Sick Time
That cup must have been dirty I felt it as soon as I drank that cranberry juice I won’t say anything but that cup was used People would think I’m crazy so don’t say anything. I won’t but if I get sick too just let me…
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Wheel Watch (#tonka#micropoetry#tonka tuesday#writbit)
Clock hands turn for time I say life circles around Us at a circus With a fire ring in the ring Acrobats spin forever {circle of life inspiration; Colleen} Image via Feng Shui writer Ken Lai
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Time Frieze
A warm breeze brushes across this terrace giving a cooling effect on my not quite tan slightly sunburnt skin; I remember standing just over there under the balcony frieze on a different day while a mocking sun meanly reflected on me. Today, treetops sway thanking the gentle winds, potted ferns agree in kind – many…
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Time for a Walk
The sun is shining, feels humid,going to be a warm day.What was the forecast?They’re always wrong,who keeps their jobwho is wrong so very often? She had dreamt they had argued about money maybe orhis sister visitingor was it her uncle visiting;when was the last time theyhad sex, anyhow? They look at each other nowremembering just…
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Time for Thank You’s
Thank you Sun Thank you Ocean Thank you Moon Thank you Tides Thank you Mighty Cedar Tree Thank you Free Like Jay Bird Thank you Sacred Scrub Oak Thank you Naked as a Robin Two Hours Old Thank you for Good Food to Eat Thank you to the Cook even when it’s me…
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Cuckoo Time
Tony said it’s that damn clock causing all of us all of our problems. Tony had worked seven seasons on Alaskan fishing boats and did handy work in remote towns in between, but he saved his money enough to attend college. One afternoon during exam week his scrappy lean frame alit from the…
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Time as Ineffable
“I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.”― Judith Minty, Letters to My Daughters I memorizethe contoursof treesacross the skylineas the sun setsbehind. In the morningI study thefog whichsurrounds and encloseseast, west, north & south. By mid-day I’mlooking…
Artie & Stu 