Remember how short is my time.
Was it truly so pointless, your creation of man?
Who is the man who can live and not die,
who can save his life from the grasp of the underworld?
Psalm 88Closing the chicken coop door
In the blue-bone shadows of evening
Where we strain our looking
But cannot see.
Barricading death
With a latch,
Some thin wood
Holding back
The teeth,
The quick shake
Of oblivion,
As the dust
Of moonlight
Settles over
The jaws of darkness,
For now,
Just
For now.
This strikes me just where I've been personally "pondering" lately. I know that comment probably makes no sense, but I love this.... and I have missed you and your magnificent words!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Nancy!!! I need to get back on line and catch up with your wonderful writing!!! Miss you!!
DeleteWow Cynthia! I too have been pondering the brevity of life very much lately. My older sister died so unexpectedly, and while she was seven years older than I am, she was much younger than my parents who both lived into their 90's. Lately I keep recalling that saying that we should live each day as if it were our last...and I don't. And that's something I'm pondering too. Thank you for the reminder, and I love the "dusky" picture you paired with it. You are still my favorite poet! xo
ReplyDeleteAh Patricia you are a dear and I have missed you too! Can't wait to visit your beautiful writing and soul!!! I have been away and miss my friends here!!! God Bless and seize the moment!!!
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