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Tag: time

Posted on December 14, 2025December 14, 2025

Bells Ring Out

reverberations
announce each
hour

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Posted on August 11, 2025August 3, 2025

Markers

side by side
the pyramid and cairn
left to hold a place in time

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Posted on July 31, 2025July 23, 2025

Vulnerabilities

pink plastic flamingos
their only predators
the elements, time and asethics

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Posted on June 10, 2025May 31, 2025

Horological Botany

dandelion sundial
yellow petal hands
telling summer’s time

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Posted on January 31, 2025January 27, 2025

Time Abstracted

within in the flow
it wrinkles and bunches
but always eventually
untangles itself

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Posted on November 9, 2024November 3, 2024

Forest Bones

time’s skeleton
the sun bleached bones
of prodigious trees

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Posted on October 19, 2024October 7, 2024

Change

life and time
always on the move
let us be their gracious guests

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Posted on September 14, 2024September 2, 2024

Piecework

patchwork of light
on the forest floor
time quilts early autumn

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Posted on May 21, 2024May 13, 2024

Open Space

the days expand
mid-mornings linger
the feeling grows
that there is time enough

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Posted on April 9, 2024April 5, 2024

Time’s Reallocations

memory is a mystery
with pieces disappearing
and remains ever changing

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Posted on February 28, 2024February 23, 2024

Pieces

the barn became a puzzle
with weather and time taking pieces
waiting for hammer and saw to replace them

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Posted on January 20, 2024January 18, 2024

In Outlines

tracing time
and its
continuous expansion

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Posted on November 19, 2023November 5, 2023

Needles, Leaves, Reeds

the wind weaves
a tapestry
of elements and time

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Posted on November 11, 2023October 28, 2023

Good Manners

this autumn leaf flittered and flew
delivering a personal goodbye
to each remaining hour

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Posted on October 13, 2023October 1, 2023

Stillness Inside The Current

rock beneath the waterfall
witness to every nuance in the weather
barometer of time

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Posted on September 20, 2023September 13, 2023

Claimed

stumped by wetlands
once tall trees
now neck to neck with water lily

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Posted on September 13, 2023September 3, 2023

Late Summer Garden

field grass high and in seed
flower stalks looking for rest
abundance about to tip into decline
this is the story of the passage of time

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Posted on August 27, 2023August 13, 2023

Sundial

a shadow falls
across the face
of time

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Posted on August 17, 2023August 6, 2023

Morning Dew

I can almost see time
accumulating
in the blades of grass

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Posted on August 9, 2023July 30, 2023

Water Falls Along The Brook

pulled by
time and gravity
back to the beginning

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Posted on July 25, 2023July 15, 2023

Morning Seats

we watch the day rise
and let the shadows lengthen
time is abundant among us

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Posted on July 3, 2023June 22, 2023

Listening To Time

time resides in the sound
of the river current’s
constant caress of the old tree stump

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Posted on April 22, 2023April 18, 2023

The Stone Step’s Chronicle Of Time

the old antler
and its shadow in repose
above bloodroot blooming as light

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Posted on April 4, 2023April 2, 2023

On The Far Edge Of Winter

the sky
keeps reminding me
how fast time moves

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Posted on February 28, 2023February 28, 2023

Physics At The Brook’s Edge

if time itself could be seen
this is how it would appear
stopped and moving all at once

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Posted on February 17, 2023February 13, 2023

Time’s Vision

the barn’s
one empty window
an all seeing eye

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Posted on September 18, 2022September 10, 2022

Forever Now

clouds
dodge time
in the zig zag sky

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Posted on July 12, 2022July 8, 2022

Time’s Turning

summer’s life seen
as a kaleidoscope
of colors

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Posted on May 7, 2022April 30, 2022

In Parallel

all the edges softened
blending into one another
flying and floating both

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Posted on April 16, 2022April 11, 2022

Conversations Across Time

fall’s iris pods
call across the river
to the tree’s spring buds

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