SANDS OF TIME: Some Temporal Reflections

IMAGE: Some tiny sands covering a holographic clock, scallop shell, and 
       some people contemplating sunset in a field.

    How is time like a tree?
    For an answer,
    contemplate each seed.

    How is time like a clock?
    Of the movement of each hand,
    take careful stock.

    How is time like sand?
    Over an aeon's span
    ask any rock.


Ron:   (sneering) Why doesn't this dude quit poetry and focus on art?

Linda: (in jest) Huh? Why doesn't this dude quit art and simply breathe?

Lis:   If you want to take it that far, why not bypass it all? Why even be?


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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Some equivocal questions about about the passage of time. 
KEYWORDS: chronological speculations, echoes of epochs, temporal enigmas, snidey remarks

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 2010 in Tokyo, Japan ✠ Finished: 2022 in Yokohama (Japan)
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} 

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