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Inspired by daniil's journal subject "Yesterday's gone", but other than that it has nothing to do with said journal entry :-) Ironically I wasted my time creating this poem titled Time Wasted:

I sit beneath the ticking clock,
tick, tick, tick.
My life fleeing from my feeble grasp,
one second at a time.

And yet I remain to hear,
tick, tick, tick.
The seconds slip past,
like the grains from my life's hourglass.

I hurry to worry,
tick, tick, tick.
With horror I watch,
as the seconds march past.

I run in circles screaming;
tick, tick, tick.
Lamenting, "Woe is I!"
as the seconds fly by.

I pull out handfulls of my hair,
and continue to wail and gnash my teeth.
I fall down in utter dispair,
with the the sound of the clock still in the air.

Tick, tick, tick.....

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  • It's been years since I wrote poetry, but I like to see that the free use of the form isn't dead.

    I once wrote a poem, 'Crickets', that was very similar in meaning. I may pull it out and journal it sometime soon. Thank you for posting.

    • The weird thing is I pretty much hate poetry (writing or reading) but every now and then I get the insane urge to write it. I am not sure why.
      • me too, except Poe stuff.
      • The thing that makes most people despise poetry is school. School forces poetry on us, and does not allow you to become attached to a single form or style. Just when you start to get the feel for Sonnets, the teacher has to quickly thrust us into some critics idea of 'good' free-form, or worse - translated poetry where all semblence of meter is destroyed.

        Poetry with some form of symmetry or meter has an inherent magic to it. If your teacher had forced you to eat a spoonfull of sugar every day for a seme

  • I'll get myself a mug of tea and get back to my homework.
  • One of my favorite little sayings, and one that occurs to me quite regularly:

    Time is the fire in which we burn.

    Apparently penned by one Delmore Schwartz. You really do learn something every day. Can I go home now?

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