Curious Measure

Is not the time a curious measure? 

How ‘round-the-clock our watches we impinge.

And glimpse the ticking tocks of a track’d turn-pin.

`Its cyclic circumcisions sickly draw

To circumspection the specters of precious whiles;

Whilst we within ourselves swear our senses?

Vital organs granting pulse with paces 

Are but clockworks: springs and cogs and 

Gears coil, chew, wheel; govern and will 

Tell our work and clockwork share not difference…

Anon, a monumental moment past

By us did sail as vital breath beneath

Our noses doth subsist and from withal hence.

It airs and flies into the wind and blows,

Away it goes, atom among atoms

Innumerable, sight unseen, and gone;

But being short in breadth, it fled 

Null our gratitude, which nigh and opposite

Had thus been lured toward a heeling heir

That likewise graciousness to lag had lost--

But knew you not, moment, for stayed you not, 

Moment, before off and onward you sailed.

Is not the time a curious measure?

Reviews

[LadyRosaline]

thankkkkkkkks
means alot my bard who blathes

[koty bell]

Thought this was splendid... :-) a poem with a shakespeare like flow to it! Simply wonderful!

[zainul]

Yes,time is a curious measure.
Interesting conversation.
Enjoyed reading.

[LadyRosaline]

Thanks for spending time to read it...It is such a complex subject to wrap your mind around..

[zainul]

You are most welcome,lovely poet.:)
This is a great opportunity for me to engage myself with such an interesting complex subject to wrap my mind around.

[LadyRosaline]

Read Moreless i recently posted,... that or touchless all

[zainul]

Sure,I will read them all bit by bit.
Thanks for the request,Sarah!

[SquinklaPsyOps]

There is so much here, I don't even know where to begin because of the old english language, I would have to use old english in my interpretation to be precise.

But your writing style brings it all together very nicely. Will definitely read it again.

[LadyRosaline]

Thanks so much..Start from
I've heard fiction literature referred to as, “The Great Conversation” (I believe it was Eliot who said it, but because I am writing on the fly, so to speak, I don’t care to research it). It makes perfect sense, though. Shakespeare read the expressions of, say, Chaucer, internalized them, and then perceived humanity and nature differently as influenced by that expression. Pope read Shakespeare and Chaucer. Wordsworth and Coleridge read Pope, Shakespeare, and Chaucer. And Poe and Hawthorne read them, and Whitman and Dickinson read them, and O’Conner and Hemingway read them, and Vonnegut and King read them…and so on, and so on
(read The Great Writers)

Every time we craft fiction or poetry or criticism, we offer our piece of mind, our expressions, to the “Great Conversation,” and how they impress will influence the expressions that follow, and so on, and so on, and so on…

Words, whether spoken or written, are no less prone to the principals of aesthetics than either art or music. Perhaps it is even fair to say that languages, by nature, have been endowed with an inherent beauty. Surely, the words that are disagreeable to the ear die while the agreeable ones live on. For lacking the qualities to satisfy the communicative need and aesthetic whim of a culture, a word is doomed to archaism. It is culture after all that dictates our languages, and something as prolific within a culture as language ought to be pleasant, hence the design of language must call for the consideration of its pleasantry.


I appreciate your comment very much..

My Withdrawl poem has more of olde english http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarah_Leanne/1153800/

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

Very classical in feel and form...and interesting one at that. Also, the concept is interesting, and one that I do agree with; are all too stuck on timing, time, appointments, etc. Definitely not the same as life used to be. Thought provoking piece.

[LadyRosaline]

thank you so very much!

[Friday]

Interesting piece posing interesting questions. The wording is interesting too with things like Anon for example. The ending three lines are exquisite. A great deal of "food for thought". Thanks!

[LadyRosaline]

thanks alot

[Jack...]

"Time can be a healer and a teacher, so much I have learned from time" Mike McClure

This was beautifully written and posed an untiring question. Life is filled with brief moments, minutes we wish we could take back or bring back to say just the right thing now that we have had an additional moment to ponder what we actually said or did. To capture these lost moments and keep them somewhere safe is a dream, though not one that can not come true. This was very nice, happy to have read you.

[LadyRosaline]

I must have missed this review..thanks for your time and comment..