Collected Poems

Beruthiel's cat · 03-25-2004, 11:26 AM

I'm starting a thread for my poems -- many of which are buried in a file cabinet in my basement behind a pile of lumber that I can't move at the moment...

I do have one (of very recent vintage) that I'd like to share and get comments on.

More work will be forthcoming -- once I get around the wood pile.

Thank you!

Passing Metaphor (a poem by Beruthiel's cat)

Sometimes you watch it go
like water through fingers.

Sometimes you pray it stays
and grip tightly.

It's the tide
flowing, ebbing
on your shore --

erroding sand,
returning it --

can't be kept,
won't go away --

measures breath,
measures death --

all things,
no things --

sifts, shifts,
sleeps, wakes --

makes and unmakes.

03-25-2004, 11:26 AM	#1
Beruthiel's cat mystical divinity of Unashamed Felinity Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: New York's beautiful North Coast -- we're all mad here!!! Posts: 635	Collected Poems I'm starting a thread for my poems -- many of which are buried in a file cabinet in my basement behind a pile of lumber that I can't move at the moment... I do have one (of very recent vintage) that I'd like to share and get comments on. More work will be forthcoming -- once I get around the wood pile. Thank you! Passing Metaphor (a poem by Beruthiel's cat) Sometimes you watch it go like water through fingers. Sometimes you pray it stays and grip tightly. It's the tide flowing, ebbing on your shore -- erroding sand, returning it -- can't be kept, won't go away -- measures breath, measures death -- all things, no things -- sifts, shifts, sleeps, wakes -- makes and unmakes. __________________ "Never try to out-stubborn a cat!" -- R. Heinlein ~~~~~~~~~ "But I don't want to be among mad people, " Alice remarked. "Oh, but you can't help that," said the Cat; "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." ~~ Lewis Carroll ~~~~~~~~~~~ Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana...

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