Time
Is time an organized file
brimming with figures and facts?
Or is time a play in the theater
with lines and scenes and acts?
Is time a glorified drum
beating the rhythm of life?
Or is time a well-honed blade
cutting through age like a scythe?
©Mary Lee Hahn, 2019
The visuals and rhymes you've created are delightful--as always! Only you could make those words beat like a drum, resonating for others to appreciate.
ReplyDeleteLove this form, Mary Lee! Nicely done.
ReplyDeleteLove the wide angle view you've written from those three words, Mary Lee.
ReplyDeleteI'll take stanzas 2 and 3 please! Love how you're playing with poetry this month. Hoping to join in later. Still exhausted from the SOL challenge & working on a post for tomorrow's SJFT. Will join the play group on Friday!
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ReplyDeleteTime confounds me Mary Lee. How can my body feel the cuts of time, while who I am seems to stay more or less the same. I'm regularly surprised when I look in a mirror. Maybe time is a trickster?
ReplyDeleteTime is TOTALLY a trickster!
DeleteYou know what Einstein said? “Time is relative.” I love what you did here. I will be using the metaphor dice soon.
ReplyDeleteOoh, I love this! Time manages to be all of these things some days.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm singing Hazy Shade of Winter... :)
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