Friday, December 23, 2022

  ...On Poetry and Fiction – Just “One Word” Away (Pendulum)

 

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            One word becomes one idea, becomes one sentence, becomes one poem, becomes one story. It must start from just “one word”. Today my one word is “Pendulum”.

            The Pendulum…It charts our course as we go through life; and it marks each second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year – from childhood to golden days. We have no choice but to follow its rhythm until "OUR" very last dance.


Pendulum


The Pendulum !

It swings back and forth

Our eyes follow it in trance-like stare

Hypnotized by the passing of time

Mesmerized by the secrets of the past

We can hear it speak

A syncopated rhythm

Familiar to our ears

We listen as it guides our stay

We listen as it leads the way

Never stopping, just swaying on

to an infinite beat of Past, Present and Future

It ticks by day

It ticks by night

It wakens us to morning light

It whispers a nocturnal lullaby

As we fall to slumber with little a fight

It welcomes all and plans their time

through careful steps and measured climb

The Pendulum !

With its sounds of glory

It creates and controls the human story

It lives on and on for days to come

It allows the passage of days that have gone

We revel in its pomp and circumstance

and leave its course to chance

The Pendulum !

It swings back and forth

Until our very last dance…


 



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