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Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Candor of the Clock



PAD Challenge day 9. For today's prompt, take the phrase "(blank) of the (blank),"
replace the blanks with a word or phrase,
make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.



Consummate toll of tick and tock
Determined undertow
Winnowing shorelines made of rock
With season ebb and flow

A minute and momentous merge
Of is, was, and will be
The gilded surface of a surge
Veiling eternity

…while dreamers dream and poets troll
The teeming deeps that mock
The pioneer of heart and soul
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock

The lilt that tuned the nudge that broke
The shell that held the bow’r
That grew into a mighty oak
Reclaims glory’s fleet flow’r /hour

Giver and taker synchronized
The candor of the clock
Grants and gathers eons comprised
Of teeny tick and tock

…unfurling a tempest of pearls
Some pray, some shake a fist
Tick tock, the clock replies, and twirls
Time’s carousel of mist

© Janet Martin

James 4:14
What is your life? 
You are a mist that appears 
for a little while 
and then vanishes.





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