Moment-streams

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Beneath the umbrella

Of sunlight or star

Of noon, mellow yellow

Or moon, faint and far

The moment-streams trickle

Across centuries

And what we put in them

Are Time’s legacies

Beneath azure canopy

Or midnight’s sweet dream

Rivers of primrose

And anemone gleam

Only to wither

As all nature must

Back to its birthplace

In cradles of dust

Beneath tumbled portals

Of cloud-schooner fleet

Is the journey of mortals

And the moments we meet

Above this umbrella

Of undefined scope

Is the end or all moments

…and man’s living Hope

© Janet Martin