I mourn the round clock
the poetic face of time
gazing into now
hands whirling round hours
much like the planets orbit
our cradle of light
pulsing in us – too
as heart hub where the Muse dwells
minding her own pace
you are the turning
– she hints – laugh and weep with me
create more beauty
from her calm domain
she may join freak storms as rain
and make deserts bloom
poets and children
glimpse how she weaves dream fabrics
to wrap up each now
Course of Mirrors 
that’s beautiful!
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Thank you Katy ☼
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Lovely Ashen – I’d never thought of time embracing the now with every click – motion embracing all that is – at least that’s how I see your prose … thank you.
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Thank, Susan. It seems to me that time is well advised by the muse 🙂
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Endearing post, Ashen, the round clock has special meaning for me as well, as contrasted with the digital clock. The movement of the minutes and seconds sweeping around the dial makes me think of Organic Life and the Inorganic Solar System both progressing in a forward direction in an accurate and interlocked manner. For example, the body has a precise “wiring” of the length of sleep cycles during night-time, that is closely linked to dreaming just before awakening. The seasons of the year, summer/winter also regulate the length of the day when you are active, from dawn until dusk Thank You!.
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Thanks, Rubin. You’re quite right, the digital clocks with lit window that show only numbers deprives us of the powerful metaphor of recurrent cycles.
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Our reverence for time and of its servants,adds colour and structure to our lives.
Be it the round clock, the sun dial or digital; the partnership runs deep and offers a chance to co-exist with a trusted friend.
Things are always getting better. B
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Co-existing with a trusted friend is a blessing.
Re: ‘Things are always getting better.’ My former Sufi teacher used to say this. He also used the term ‘functional truth,’ which I understood as having relevance to our personal lives and short term goals.
In this context a quote by Hazrat Inayat Khan applies, which takes time into account: ‘The ideal is the means, its breaking is the goal.’
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I love the fullness of response by bristlehound! I have for a long time needed to find a category for the phrase, “Things are always getting better.” Some individuals running for presidency in USA have taken advantage of this. Eureka! I now have clarified to myself, I would call this a “conditional truth.”
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See also my reply to B.
When it comes to ideologies that unify groups and collectives, then the saying ‘Things are always getting better,’ could serve as helpful attitude. So instead of blaming ideologies we don’t agree with, and blame for our ills, we could explore our relatively short human history, and then give energy to what worked to enhance life for all living beings, and the vital question ‘What for?’ What is the value of life?’
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I very much like this lyrical poem, the way it changes voices and keeps its own reflective pace.
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Thanks Joe, I always value your feedback ☼
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Truly beautiful.
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Thank you Katia ☼
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Ashen, I love your phrase about the metaphor of repeated cycles. I have never thought about it that way! Metaphor, in general, interests me especially after I have read works by Spanish philosophers, Ortega y Gasset and Julian Marias. Marias has said that “Metaphor is an instrument of cognition.”
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