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March 29, 2011

No time – work in progress

Filed under: poems — Trefor Davies @ 9:02 pm

No Time
I saw it, yesterday
a romantic, bloodshot, clearview eyeful
was good, strolling comfortably by,
fat bellies in life absorbing tall grass,
careless, laughter filled country lanes;
four seasons of mud, snow, pollen and dust
of footprints and wet feet,
open fires and steaming socks
open windows and breathless nights,
slow passing cow curious days,
of tireless church bells
and life and inevitably death

elusive, in my grasp, but then gone
A dwindling presence reduced to a dribble,
dried up torrent,

it’s here now
no time show time
stop time go time
live for the finger snapping moment
in a high speed shutter blink life time
no room for musty routine,
cobwebs of convention
blow open windows of change
rattle cupboard doors and
spill empty glasses of conformity

but no, time has gone,
I should have quit while I was ahead.

2 Comments »

  1. time.
    waits for
    no man.

    Comment by chris — March 29, 2011 @ 9:04 pm

  2. Something I’m working on for an art exhibition in Gainsborough in June

    Comment by tref — March 29, 2011 @ 9:12 pm

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