Welcome to this week’s poetry club tea date!
Get your favorite steep (or brew) and join us in writing a quick poem based on the following line, submitted by Every Day Poems reader Katie Brewster. The line is from the recent poem delivery The Clock in the Square by Adrienne Rich.
Time may be silenced but will not be stilled
Your Pour
Take a moment to write a poem based on the shared line. Then add to the comment box (with a touch of cream and sugar) so other club members can enjoy.
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Katie Brewster says
Timepieces
we hang
them on walls
wear them
on wrists
circular meters
measuring seconds
telling time
ticking off minutes
until they strike
the next spent hour
L.L. Barkat says
Oh, I love the observation this poem makes about time pieces actually looking backwards. Had never thought about that. 🙂
Katie Brewster says
Thank you, L.L. 🙂
Dan Julian says
I know an old man… well, older than I am at least
Who keeps his mind sharp by grinding its grey edges
Against hard riddley sayings and unyielding paradoxes
Such as, “You know, if you go far enough east…”
“It’s important,” I’ve heard him say, “to be moderate in
moderation.” I guess maybe what he’s driving at is
that if you’re moderate all the time, you’re excessive.
But that’s merely my interpretation.
“The only thing I hate,” he’ll say, “is a hater.” – or –
“I’m very intolerant of intolerance.” He’ll be smiling,
And I’ll just hear his mind grinding, see sparks flying
While frankly I’m wondering what it’s all for.
“The only absolute is that there are no absolutes!”
I mean, I guess if it keeps him from going daft…
“The only constant is change!” But sometimes I gotta laugh
and sometimes I’m inclined to refute…
“Time may be silenced but will not be stilled,” he quotes
one day, to me. I contemplate a moment, then say, “Zero degrees
on the Kelvin scale; all motion and time come to a cease.”
I’m sure, just this once, I’ve gotten his goat.
But he comes back immediately with this old but good one:
“A mind convinced against its will holds the same opinion still.”
And while I do my best to swallow that horse pill,
doubles down with, “Science is the new religion.”
L.L. Barkat says
This is such a fun poem. (Seems like with that man, where there’s a will there’s a way. 🙂 )
Katie says
“And I’ll just hear his mind grinding, see sparks flying”
Dan,
I love this line in particular and the whole poem – what a fun description of a thinker:)
Kortney says
Yes, the grinder caught my attention as well!
My grandfather had a grinding wheel in the garage for sharpening tools. You’ve taken me right back there!