The Radium ClockA Poem by PeteAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - ThoreauGlowing. All-knowing. Timeless and telling. Hypnotic and quelling. Dividing night from day. With little to say. Brightly painted. Toxic and tainted. Atomic and chronic. Plaguing and bubonic. Narcissistic and iridescent. Nefarious and prepubescent. Neither good nor bad. A temporary fad. Nuclear and radioactive. Parsimonious and proactive. Illustrious and steady as a rock. Pointy-eared like Star Trek's Dr. Spock. I give you the luminous and lustrous ... ... radium clock ... © 2019 PeteAuthor's Note
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Added on April 6, 2019 Last Updated on April 6, 2019 AuthorPeteBoston, MAAboutI love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..Writing
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