Best Ephemerality Poems

Time passes 
The world changes 
People come and go
Like yesterday's footprints
Covered in the falling snow.

            W.A. CHOLT.  Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 2018....

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'lasting for a very short time':

You went to a college,
graduated in flying colours.
Was drunk with the vapour 
of distinction
In the higher level's age.
Knowledge was your cage.
Even you obtained certificates.
But death pursued your breath:
Bethroted to Ephemeral.

Groomed by the best clown,
elating glottis,scolding eyes.
Gone to river of rivers...

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Beneath a drop cloth
in the back of the mind
hums a machine—
gears oiled with old lullabies
and levers etched in looping script
you almost remember learning.
Turn the crank and out drifts a smell--
maybe floral, maybe musty, 
maybe something like
your grandmother’s books
just before snow.

Sometimes it spits out
something that never...

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