The Future
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Author's Notes: "The Future," is a Heroic Couplet I wrote and set in Iambic Pentameter. This poem is the last in a trilogy of three heroic couplets concerning the nature of time and the impact it has on people and societies, whether events or situations in question occur in the past, present, or future. The emphasis of "The Future" is on the notion and nature of planned or spontaneous events as they unfold for people in the future on the human time continuum beyond what has occurred in the past and the present. This poem, as with the other two ("The Past" and "The Present") is considered principally from a metaphorical point of view. I hope that you will find this write of interest too!! (FINAL NOTE: All three of my heroic couplets: The Past, The Present, and The Future -- comprise, in effect, my poet's philosophical view of their individual meanings and their related epochal blending and interaction on the human time continuum.) (Gary Bateman - December 27, 2014) (Heroic Couplet in Iambic Pentameter)
Categories: allegory, change, future, imagery, journey, metaphor, and time.
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The Future
One’s future footprints in the sands of time,
To be enshrined for all to see in time.
A time period of shall and shall be,
Descriptive too of what again shall be.
A future view of such constant motion,
Of people, events, passion, emotion.
A planned assumption that is great or grave,
That a future parade of time must save.
A dream so enchanted for the future,
Not revealed—as one must learn the future.
A future hope for wantonness and wit,
To be resurrected now from Hell’s pit.
A vision of future epochs in time,
Now must our poets plan to set in rhyme.
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
(December 27, 2014) (Heroic Couplet)
Copyright © Gary Bateman | Year Posted 2014
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