Best Gnomon Poems

O Fingernail Moon
				have you sent us Morning Sun
				to show us building?

				And Morning Sun
				are you sliding 
				down the mountainside
				to hint at pyramids,
				how to build them,
				before you...

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O Fingernail Moon
			pointing down at the ocean
			what goddess clipped you?

			O clipped fingernail
			without your acute reply
			can I scratch mind’s itch?

			Scratch may be:
			the swipe to light the...

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So I now come to that same blessed mound, 
witness of much that memory still holds dear. 
Though now these fields grey-sullen clouds make drear,...

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An old sundial awaits,
Sol's kiss of glistening gold.
And aligned with the North star,
its gnomon stabs at the cold.

Tarnished and weather-beaten,
it waits for Sol to come...

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As the day lengthens
and sun grows high,
your shadow shortens
as the day goes by,

and i think of you 
in noon's repose,
and wonder where
your shadow goes.

Then there...

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A constant reminder of what’s surrounding me
The vacuum of evil that seeks to suck me in
That the light will fade and I too will cease...

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Feeling inside soul of time and weather change
Colder weather arriving and autumn harvest,
Full natural growth and the autumnal equinox glows
Wonderful time for a football game,...

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I only tell of sunny hours…
For me the trail of time disappears
in the depth of darkness at sundown,
but my mind doesn’t harbor any qualm,
I dream...

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SUNDIAL WISDOM--

I only tell of sunny hours;
And my face looks toward heaven's skies;
And a gnomon, which casts a shadow onto my dial;
My eyes gnomon clouds...

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She was happy to deliver the news if only to get a glimpse of Lumi.  They had 
met some years back, before he had...

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Shadow Casters


The blaring light casts a superfluous shadow

upon the timepiece, in a garden full of weeds.

As empires have fallen; iron and clay, once gold,

the gnomon...

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I only tell of sunny hours...
I,Gnomon,
Sundial yeoman;
Suntanned sentinel 
Stand watch,
Shedding tears for unrequited love.
My cooling shadow stalks sun;
Caresses with timely sunscreen
Sweet sundial’s gilt Egyptian face.
Ask...

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I only tell of sunny hours...
         for I can’t penetrate the dark.
     ...

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You fall behind the maple so umber
Soon to close and slumber 
Broadcasted light mesmerized 
Like a painted picture accessorized 

Shine your twilight still 
This earthly...

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Lockdown (courtesy coronavirus COVID-19)...

Minimally impacts mine secluded lifestyle,
cuz yours truly came into this madcap world
approximately 534714.57958 times after
gnomon cast shadow across flat plate of sundial
ever...

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