January 27, 2014 We Write Poems We Wordle #4

Prompt:  Woman, desire, answers, lunatic, pretty, harsh, asking, ridicule, humiliation, platitudes, obvious, pay, sacrifice, single, obvious, sky, translation, deeply, lived, rules, water, hurt, darkness, crowd, watch, harsh, birth, caught, changing, oil, rendering, bone, tarragon, orange, locusts, brazen

Time is Like a River

From which you

Drink only once

Because the flow

That has passed

Will never pass again

It is ridiculous

To think of the river

Pausing

Then backing up

Just for you

Because you were not

Paying attention

Didn’t notice

Or wanted that very

Special day all

Over again

I desire to stay in one place
Sink my roots into the
Darkness

For things to stay the same
Like the insect
Caught in resin

Yet....

Not one single day is like

Another

Life is a constantly

Changing carousel

Accompanied by

Calliope 

It is no sacrifice

Really

To say goodbye

To what was

Like the game of

Roulette

There is always the

Chance tomorrow

Or the next spin

Of the wheel

Will be even better

Than this day

A life lived deeply

Renders meat from

The bone

The recipe is to be

Aware of each moment

Read the translation

In the sky

Collect orange

Blossoms

For your hair

Create the life

Wanted

Heaven...if there is one

Is in this moment

Note:  When I thought of ‘Life is a constantly changing carousel,’ I thought of the calliope music to accompany the carousel.  I decided to look it up, and found Calliope is an instrument also called steam organ or steam piano, and In Greek mythology, it is also the foremost of the nine Muses, the patron of epic poetry.  How nice to think that life is accompanied by the inventor of melody and rhythm.