The Past
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Author's Notes: "The Past," is a Heroic Couplet I wrote and set in Iambic Pentameter. I wrote this particular poem as a narrative statement on certain events, occurrences, and situations which are reflective of and bespeak experiences of the past or past tense. I am currently in the process of writing two other follow-on heroic couplets that will consider mankind's time dimension from the standpoints of the "Present," and the "Future." Please note that I got the idea of using the phrase "wantonness and wit" listed in the sixth stanza, first verse, from Sir Walter Raleigh's famous 16th century poem: "Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk." In this instance, "wantonness and wit" as I used it my poem can be likened to people being "of free play and of free intelligence" in how they conduct themselves and their affairs. (Yet now, such actions are no longer possible since they are dead and buried and consigned to the past or the past tense.) (Gary Bateman - December 25, 2014) (Heroic Couplet in Iambic Pentameter)
Categories: allegory, change, imagery, journey, metaphor, time, and wisdom.
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The Past
One’s former footprints in the sands of time,
Engraved and set for all to see in kind.
A time period of was and had been,
And descriptive too of what might have been.
A former snapshot of motion frozen,
Of people or an event so chosen.
A historical fact so great or grave,
That the procession of time has so saved.
An enchanted dream one dreamt deep and well,
Which is gone and one now can only tell.
A past moment of wantonness and wit,
Dead now and buried so deep in a pit.
A wondrous parade of epochs in time,
Now bygone for poets to set in rhyme.
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
(December 25, 2014) (Heroic Couplet)
Copyright © Gary Bateman | Year Posted 2014
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