Burnished
Pitted
Patinaed
Pitted
Patinaed
Oh
The many beauties
Of ageing
Tag: time
Curtain Call
Beleaguered pier
Time chastened
Weather beaten
Time chastened
Weather beaten
A formation
Of pilings
Long past utility
Though still
They throw
A striking pose
Just before
The curtain
Falls
Beauty Unremarked
This wee continent of life
Entwined in a small living sea
All of it ancient beyond my ken
I could not count out the years
In all my time
Entwined in a small living sea
All of it ancient beyond my ken
I could not count out the years
In all my time
But the years of consciousness
I could count
In just an afternoon
And my own years
Rattled off in seconds
In the vast pre-history
Of consciousness
This beauty unremarked
But do my remarks
Or those of others
Make the beauty so?
An Ancient Beach
I think of a beach
Half a billion years ago
Petrified in a moment of flux
Half a billion years ago
Petrified in a moment of flux
And the creatures
Which skittered there
Having barely left the sea
I think of a wave
And the littlest living things
Awash in the foaming ocean
Not so unlike
The littlest living things
Swishing over my feet in the surf
Vanishing Point
Once, there were days
Many days
When I had nowhere to go
And all day to get there
Now I seem to be
Everywhere at once
But nowhere at all
All the time
Eddies
High enough
And wide enough
To witness
The arc of the Earth
And wide enough
To witness
The arc of the Earth
Near enough
And still enough
To experience
The arc of the ocean
An eddy of time
Reflected
In the eddies
Of the sea
Time
I feel time
Wending
Up my spine
Stealing my vigour
Taking my mind
Wending
Up my spine
Stealing my vigour
Taking my mind
But my heart
Remains strong
My spirit
Undiminished
So I
Unrelenting
Resist time
Live today
Work toward
Tomorrow
Time and Change
I stand on the edge
Of a hundred million years
Changing, changing, changing
Always change
Of a hundred million years
Changing, changing, changing
Always change
One score and five thousand years ago
Human eyes came to see
Human hands learned to make
All our grandiose change
No match for nature’s hand
Three ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #141
Just the three of us
Spirit, mind and body
On a journey through
Space, time and possibility
Spirit, mind and body
On a journey through
Space, time and possibility
Time and Love
Time and love
They’ve etched your lines
Deep into me
They’ve etched your lines
Deep into me
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