Tag: time

Blog, Quadrille

Running Out Of Time – A Quadrille

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Running Out Of Time

Minute by minute
and hour by hour
Twelve hours
and then twelve more
A day and then another
And so it goes
On and on
The never-ending
circle of hands on
the face of a clock
Time stopping for no man
Elusive and uncatchable


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Lisa from Tai Talk is hosting Monday Quadrille at D'Verse tonight as her prompt word is "Twelve"  D'Verse Poets Pub is celebrating 12 years today.  Isn't that amazing?
Enjoy this old Jim Croce song.
Blog, Healing

When Time Stands Still

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When Time Stands Still

It is still early as the sun has barely broken the dawn
Sky, a pale yellow-grey and dew clings tightly to the grass
The early bird yet to waken and give us his morning song
A blanket of silence comforting and welcome
Precious solitude invaluable before facing the day
It is in these moments that time stands still
I am gifted with peace and I give thanks


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Prompts

RDP - Thanks
Stream of Consciousness - Morning
Earthweal - Open Link Weekend
Blog, History

Time Stands Still – Rima Dissoluta

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Le Vieux Port – Marseille

Time Stands Still

Seventeen in nineteen sixty nine
Hair blonde, straight and long
all the way down to the waist
Skirt tiny with a pleat
Way above the knees

Limbs stretched supple, lean and fine
Pushing through the throng
A girl on a mission makes haste 
Never missing a beat
Excusez-moi if you please

Le Vieux Port, Marseille, said the sign
heart skipping it won’t be long
She’ll see him, not a moment to waste
Slipping into her seat
Waiting fifty three years, a breeze


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Sanaa is hosting D'Verse Poets tonight and has prompted us with
a French form called Rima Dissoluta.  It is a poem of three five line
stanzas and the rhymes would work as follows:

(1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d, 5-e) (6-a, 7-b, 8-c, 9-d, 10-e) (11-a, 12-b, 13-c, 14-d, 15-e)

I lived in Marseille when I was younger and have fond memories
Blog, Love

When It Is Time

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When It Is Time

I can assure you
Lovesick I am not
I am merely smitten by
the thought of your love
My mind wanders in dreams
of warm, exotic nights
under the stars
That you might hold me
in your arms
speaking words of love
that I might feel butterflies
in my stomach and remember
how it felt
Is it so wrong to wish
for these things?
I do not even know you
You are out there somewhere
and you have not found me yet
But I am here
and I am ready to receive
when it is time
 
 
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Bjorn is hosting Open Link Night at D'Verse Poets before they
take their summer break until July 11.

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