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The Sand Reckoner

 

The Sunshine of My Life

was

cancer neath the Surgeon’s Knife

 

The Calm that Lulled My Restless Mind

was

storm cloud of some Other Kind

 

The Pennies on My Shuttered Eyes

are

answers to My Living Whys

 

The Tears that Fall When I am Gone

will

not absolve me of My Wrong

 

The Words I've Penned with Flippant Hand

will

shift and drift like Worthless Sand

 

Grieve not the age that slipped through me

grieve

all of time I Shall Not See...

 

 

 

 

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David RL Moore

Thu 22nd Aug 2024 10:20

Thanks Ray,

It's a bit of a list rather than a truly cohesive poem. That said, I know what I mean and where I am going with it.

Good things that give us pleasure can ultimately be the undoing of us. Our lives are so brief that the enormity of time we don't have is a loss, or is it...

Like Freddie said "Who wants to live forever"

Not me!

David

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raypool

Wed 21st Aug 2024 17:54

The wet footprint on the sand soon fades now you see it now you don't, and your poem implies a not dissimilar stance, though of course with many more consequences which a serious reading would bring to mind !

Ray

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David RL Moore

Wed 21st Aug 2024 08:47

Thanks to John, Stephen and Crypid for the early likes.

David

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