Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Magpie Tales Photo Prompt 32


hourglass



hourglass moments
set on a
table:

our time together
flows grain by grain,
top to
bottom;

a vial of sand
waiting to be
upended
again.





Poem © 2009 by R. Burnett Baker
Photo courtesy of Willow at Magpie Tales.





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22 comments:

  1. HelenSeptember 15, 2010 at 10:37 PM

    You are up late tonight!

    Love that your Magpie hourglass can be upended! Nice writing....

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  2. spacedlawSeptember 15, 2010 at 11:58 PM

    There is a limit to the number of time a life's hourglass can be turned over. I wonder if - like on over-winded clocks springs - it can shatter is turned just once too many.

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  3. Gabriela AbaloSeptember 16, 2010 at 4:19 AM

    Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time! ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Nice Magpie!! :)

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  4. gautami tripathySeptember 16, 2010 at 4:56 AM

    Hourglass or not, time will go on. It doesn't ever stop and it shouldn't!

    timeless flies search for fries

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  5. Arian TejanoSeptember 16, 2010 at 5:35 AM

    very subtle and tight. i love it!

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  6. Tess KincaidSeptember 16, 2010 at 5:49 AM

    "...a vial of sand waiting to be upended again."
    Wonderful, Rick!

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  7. SusannahSeptember 16, 2010 at 6:08 AM

    I like this very much. :-)

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2010 at 6:34 AM

    Great job Rick. The second stanza to me is very tragic. Love and Light, Sender

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  9. Kathe W.September 16, 2010 at 7:42 AM

    our time together
    flows grain by grain
    I love this!

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  10. DavidSeptember 16, 2010 at 10:12 AM

    and so it goes. This is good in it's brevity. I look forward to reading you more.

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  11. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2010 at 10:59 AM

    As though time never ends.. Nice verse.

    CJ xx

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  12. Dulçe ♥September 16, 2010 at 11:42 AM

    Oh that's like that pendulum and its tic tac... the sound of time. THIS the vision subtle yet clear vision of time...
    greaT Rick!

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  13. Sam LiuSeptember 16, 2010 at 11:51 AM

    Such a powerful and profound analogy, Rick. Vivid writing.

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  14. Tumblewords:September 16, 2010 at 3:19 PM

    Oh, how very nice! This piece is just flat wonderful!

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  15. Kristen HaskellSeptember 16, 2010 at 5:26 PM

    I like the Upended just wish some times for a do over.

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  16. FrikoSeptember 17, 2010 at 7:57 AM

    Upending the glass is only possible in miracles; ordinary humans have to make do with one run through.
    Sadly. so, as so many are saying in reply to this prompt :carpe diem!

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  17. C.M. JacksonSeptember 17, 2010 at 9:00 PM

    like the rhythm of this

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  18. steveroniSeptember 18, 2010 at 9:26 AM

    Oh, I LIKE this one, Rick....turn it over, to begin again!

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  19. LydiaSeptember 18, 2010 at 10:21 PM

    This is a romantic and wistful poem.

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  20. Carrie Van HornSeptember 20, 2010 at 7:32 AM

    Rich this is a perfect Magpie! "Grain by grain"...so true. :-)

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  21. AnonymousSeptember 20, 2010 at 9:46 AM

    extraordinary tale.

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  22. KatherineSeptember 21, 2010 at 3:47 PM

    Hey Rick..I don't know how I missed your Magpie. It is great! Time is both immeasurable and not as it goes on into infinity & beyond. Time continues beyond our own personal living years thus the reason why we should make each and every grain of time spent with one another count.
    Lovely your Magpie Rick...deep sentiment behind so few words.

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