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Brian's Name Contest   ~  September 9, 2025

TIME

          Ticking too swiftly, the hands of a clock
          Imitating the rhythmic beat of my heart
          Minutes and hours I will never get back
          Endlessly, time rushes by, day after day

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Shadow Hamilton Date: 9/19/2025 2:34:00 PM Well said Lin time waits for no one just creeps on leaving one wondering hugs Shadow Login to Reply

Dr. Vandana Sharma Date: 9/13/2025 11:15:00 PM What an apt and poetic time flowing by... Congratulations. Login to Reply

Sara Kendrick Date: 9/13/2025 2:18:00 PM Congratulations on your winning work in Brian's contest. Way to go. I enjoyed reading this one today. Sara K Login to Reply

Paula Goldsmith Date: 9/13/2025 12:58:00 PM Congratulation on your wonderful "TIME" write win. Your few words with so much said. How can something we can Not see, feel or touch impact our lives so much??? Great Picture... Have a blessed day/weekend writing way............ Login to Reply

Duke Beaufort Date: 9/11/2025 11:31:00 AM Lin, you have this so right. We get none of it back. The question is whether to rue the past or learn from it and make the best of what we have left. It can take time to figure that out too. Smiles, of course. Wait...what's that ticking I hear...hope it's not a bomb!!! Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 9/12/2025 8:35:00 AM It serves no purpose to regret anything in the past. Learn from it, we must. LOL at your wit, Duke. thanks...

Joe Dimino Date: 9/10/2025 9:31:00 AM A thoughtful write, Lin; Time is for everything...except wasting. Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 9/11/2025 2:05:00 AM and yet we waste much of it. Thanks a lot for the read and comment, Joe.

Frederic Parker Date: 9/9/2025 3:43:00 PM I think we are all amazed at how fast time is, yet how slow it can appear Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 9/10/2025 5:54:00 AM It can work for us or against us. Thank you, Frederic.

Anne-Lise Andresen Date: 9/9/2025 11:36:00 AM - Time never waits ... use the time meaningful, Lin :) - hugs Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 9/10/2025 5:54:00 AM Yes, Anne-Lise, and yet we all waste some of it. Thank you. Hugs

Tom Cunningham Date: 9/9/2025 10:35:00 AM I find as I get older time speeds up, we have to make the most of every minute. Tom Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 9/10/2025 5:53:00 AM We certainly do, Tom. Grasp what good things we can. Thanks.

Jay Narain Date: 9/9/2025 9:56:00 AM Eternal truth. Time and tide wait for no one. Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 9/10/2025 5:52:00 AM That's total truth. Thanks, Jay.

Jerrold Prothero Date: 9/9/2025 9:26:00 AM That captures it all too well! The pace of time seems ever hurried. Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 9/10/2025 5:52:00 AM Thank you very much for your thoughts, Jerrold.

Sand Blown Date: 9/9/2025 7:58:00 AM ah....the unique relativity of watching thee momento taking its 'own' time to pass; while we struggle tokeep up......lol.......len Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 9/10/2025 5:52:00 AM Thank you very much, Len. It IS often a struggle to stay ahead of time.

Daniel Henry Rodgers Date: 9/9/2025 7:47:00 AM Dear Lin, what moves me most is that line "Minutes and hours I will never get back." There's such honesty in that acknowledgment. You inked what so many of us feel but struggle to express with that bittersweet awareness of time's irreversible flow and how precious each moment really is. We need not waste, but let us go forth and taste for time will not last. Blessings, Lin, Daniel Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 9/10/2025 5:51:00 AM Many thanks for the depth of your understanding of the part time plays in our lives... often untimely but we're powerless to control it.