Somewhere in time! I love that sentence! We and everything around us are out there somewhere...such a fitting poem of what seemed to me as loneliness, watching and waiting as time rolls past one. Excellent poem Allen.
Actually this one seemed a little dark to me, most of your work is on the sunny side of the window, this one seemed waiting in the shades of another tomorrow ...all the same..it was well written and enjoyed. Great work!
I enjoy the photo and the poem, the imagery of the scene with great detail. I really like that first stanza that begins the journey of the poem in this imagery.
There are layers upon layers here, that I cannot begin to plumb. I must ask, though, whether the different font for the first line (This old man/ Shuffles in), and the near-last (Shuffles out) was coincidental, or somehow embraces the totality of his life: comes, goes, everything between being either the same or otherwise rendered immaterial?
I've seen this up close and all too often.. The look in the eye of someone with these exact thoughts is timeless.. At first I thought this was going to be after my favorite movie "Somewhere in Time".. filmed in Michigan at Mackinaw Island with Christopher Reeves lol.. But yours was a surprise beauty on it's own..
OH MY JEEBUS! i love that song! as much as i love your peom :) it was so those type of poems that were lonely and left that haunting feeling behind 0.0
I'm a poet, a singer, a peaceful gunslinger..
looking to share my poetry..and a little bit of me...if I dare
I 've been writing since I was 18.... am slightly older now, and still trying to fin.. more..