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As their mark on time on Earth,

The rocks flaunt their fossils,

The trees flaunt their rings,

Nature flaunts her seasons,

It’s time to ring another year in my calendar of life,

Old one waltz past,

I look around for flaunt- worthy trinkets marking my time on Earth,

Lo and behold! Silver tresses, replacing pale black ones,

Romancing with time is bittersweet.

62 words.

Acknowledgements :- In response to Reena’s Exploration Challenge, Eugi’s weekly prompt challenge ( Word :- Romance) , Sue Vincent’s #writephoto challenge. Thank you for the challenge. Thank you all for stopping by and reading.

The image, forever frozen in time
is imprinted indelibly on my mind
the city of love that denied me love
returns to haunt me every now and then

holding that moment in my palms
I watch time unfurl its whorls inexorably
the piercing tendrils touch my face not so gently
my memories are followed by a trail of sighs

my past colouring the present
future remains a slate so blank
the static of my soul presses pause
I suspend the hourglass and the tick-tock freezes

days and nights lose their meaning
I refuse to acknowledge their acceptability
the sun, the moon and the stars are but
unwanted intruders in the entr’acte of my life

I choose to live in this suspension
till I find words
to leave my mark and stain the moments.

What do you see # 69 -February 15 2021

Components of time

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #172

PROMPT #172

The theme is

Components of Time

मैं बैठी बीती यादें लेकर 

समय उड़ गया पंख पसार 

मैं ही पीछे रह गयी 

आगे बढ़ गया सब संसार 

समय सिखा  देगा सब कुछ 

इसी भरम में समय गंवाया 

आँख कान सब बंद पड़े थे 

समय तो था हरदम तैयार 

आगे कल और पीछे कल की 

बड़ी है भूल भुलैय्या 

जो इसमें फँस गया न उबरे 

वर्तमान  को ही दे  बिसार 

समय हँसे 

जो  समय न चेते 

उसका जीना है बेकार 

lingering twilight
ancestors knocking at the door –
will there be another spring?

Pat

2/14/21

For Reena Exploration Challenge where the theme is Components of Time

To read more or to join in go here

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #172

end to end

lifetime just a moment
holding moments
years like seconds
a sweeping arc nearly
come full circle
now a crawl
midnight ever closer

Another poem in my recent obsession with aging, this is my response to
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #172.
The theme is Components of Time.

Image source: needpix.com (edited here)

time warps unwrap dreams

closed minds lose their slice of life

existing to live

living to exist

c’est la vie

Reena’s Xploration Challenge#172

-Eugenia

image source – lovethispic.com

Deeper and deeper into Time
where when warps and does a cartwheel
for free romantic hearts to steal
moments for each other to rhyme
floating off to a space sublime
Stars burst in synchronicity
laughing with clocks and gravity
oneness of the universe smiles
when souls meld, we stop a while
we wonder…in the infinity

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Mindfills of s.s. for

Sue Vincent’s #writephoto – deeper

Reena’s exploration challenge – components of Time
Eugi’s weekly prompt – romance
Ronovan’s Decima challenge – Steal in B abbaaccddc

THIS WEEK’S WORDS come from “Home” by William Stafford: father, star, light, tragedy, faces, front, door, came, near, locks, own, believe

What are the components of time?

High and down time

Every second

Time to reckon

How far or near tragedy comes

Own front door drums

Believe or not

We face or fraught

Star light star bright in sky

No need to cry

Father is here

He’s such a dear*

(c) ladyleemanila 2021

• The Minute Poem is rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter. The poem is formatted into 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff

For: Reena’s Xploration Challenge #172 – Reena Saxena (wordpress.com), The Whirligig: Whirligig 305 (sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com)

Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge

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One second passes faster than I can blink

Yet it can linger an eternity when I’m trapped in time

Days compressed into minutes and weeks into days

All coalescing into one long unbroken stretch of time

Time is what makes all the difference in everything

It is the great equalizer in all things worldly

Whatever we feel is ours to boast of or treasure

Slowly decays into nothingness with the passage of time

Youth or beauty, charm or talent all eroded

Power or even wealth losses it’s importance in

The ruthless grind of…