Short Tick Off Poems

sunflower clocks
slowly unwind -
dispersing seeds
tick off
the dying seconds...

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~ Inexorably,


   Our breaths tick off the minutes ...


   Cherish ... every ... one ~...

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The hours tick off
    I know every one

  Familiar their chimes
    until the day dawns...
   
  Crawl out of bed in the morning
    though not 'good as new'
  A gallon of coffee ~
    may yet see me through...

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A
pageant
unveiling
before our eyes,
the
yearly
calendar
revolves month by
month,
as
winter
welcomes spring,
summer beckons
fall-
we
tick off
a birthday,
closer to the 
grave.

Inspired by Christina Rossetti's The Months/A Pageant...

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Gasping he sucked in deep
To breathe after made his survival complete
The wave rolled on and left him there
Riding the waves made it devil may care

The sun warmed him lying on his board
Another tick off the bucket list was scored
As he paddled to the distant shoreline
Feeling great and ready for the next item he’d find.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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There is a room
in my mind I keep sealed.
It has no windows 
and the only light 
is a small red lamp
that gives off a tense aura.
I have seen the same
red glow in films bathing
the inside of submarines.
I feel the pressure push
against the walls and hear
a clock tick off time,
counting down towards
something unknown.
I hear the world 
passing overhead
and brace for the burst....

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Life’s ending is short,
  its beginning unknown

The middle is long,
  chasing stone after stone

Memories most vivid,
  from decades ago

Feelings now drifting,
  like wind driven snow

Our seconds tick off,
  as minutes run down

The big picture fades,
  tracks left on the ground

Beginning or ending,
  the next step unclear

The last cut the deepest,
 —to suture or sear

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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