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A New Nursery Rhyme

Tick, tock, distant star

How I wonder when you are

Just a timepiece in the sky

Your every 'now' another lie!

 

[Following on from the last poem and the 'time' theme]

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Miracles

Around me, the unseen miracle

Of the past: the birds in the tree—the hills—the clouds—the people passing by,

I am at the centre of my time

                And they are all in the past

What stranger miracles are there?

 

After Walt Whitman, Miracles

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