Short Wristwatch Poems

inexorably
     inevitably
     irrevocably
     the week winds down
     like an old-fashioned
     wristwatch
     time for
     the hands
     to rest...

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TIME
passes
timepieces

sundials, water clocks
known relics of past time
timers supplant the hourglass

“I-phones put the wristwatch on hold.”


revised June 21, 2014, Spring Equinox....

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How to Slow Down Time
As Senryu   

It pays to be lazy 
Time lasts so much longer 
When doing nothing 

Waiting for a train 
Look at your wristwatch often 
It never arrives 

Get up at nine 
Read boring stuff on Facebook 
Five past eight…only!...

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It looks like a wristwatch but they are different now.
Not a wristwatch at all. A computer, an I-pad, an I-pod,
A diving board, a sewing machine, a refrigerator.
Lovely, I say.
And it can pilot a plane, she says.
Which might explain its cost....

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Forget the wall clock,
that does moves you to live
and just in a hurry...
Abhors the wristwatch,
that drives your nerves
to nervousness...
That you  may trigger
your inner times,
with biological certainty
that the authentic watch
of your spirit be a intuitive
 marker that your heart
regulates... !...

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Wear a wristwatch, for you may die in your sleep,
a timepiece, one with an alarm you can set.
Best not to wake up dead still locked into that last dream,
for sleep is just death pretending to be coy.
Try to dream of being at least partially alive,
aware enough to double-check.
          if death is asleep or not....

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A broken wristwatch
nothing new, nothing old,
time does not pass
it is just the mind moving.

Nothing new under the sun but ----
behind the sun
all is ever new.

Wind an old watch
watch it tell you nothing
its hands move
with your thoughts.

Beyond the sun
the universe phones-in,
it asks just one question -

the answer to that
is you....

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The fog enveloped early morning
Coating it with a silvery mist
Even the golden leaves 'pon the magnolia
Knew they had been sweetly kissed

Bright sunlight tried to peek through
But the clouds gathered around
Closing off the laughter, tears dripped
Slowly to the damp cold ground

White pampas spikes stood still
As a soldier in his watch
No breeze to move the blossoms
Or the earth adorned wristwatch  ...

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While waiting for her this morning
I looked to my watch to see it had stopped
Why didn’t it work I wondered?
I know its battery was new
But yet, time for me had stopped.
The last thing I remember
I was crossing the street,
But, I never reached the corner
Yet, here I am, waiting for her.
It is my fate to wait for her
As in life I loved her
For in my death as well
I will wait for her
Time has no meaning without her...

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I didn't sleep again

It's boring me to tears

I think I'm getting better

I've felt this way for years

I don't need a doctor

Have you met my mother?

Oh, she died long ago

Maybe I meant my brother

People keep on staring

What are you looking at?

I just found my wristwatch

It's time to walk the cat

I keep hearing voices

I hope my head's alright

These bats in the belfry

Won't let me sleep at night...

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When I was still in the company's 
rank and file,

my 'rolex perpetual' made people 
smirk and smile.

They said I was a victim in a 
swindler's deal,

but jewelers' swore my late gramp's 
wristwatch was real.


Sold it for a fortune, now I've 
become the boss.

For fun, I wear a rolex fake, 
but I'm at a loss.

Why, those who taunted me they now 
admiringly watch

this cheap thing on my wrist like 
it's a fabulous catch!


....

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the black and
white ink laid
aside for
centerfold gold
the choice
of elementary
girl
basic colors
comically
displayed
Hagar
the horrible
Brenda Starr
the family
circle
Blondie
dad
read all the
sections
except
mine
those
happy days
no tablet
in hand, phone
attached
to the wall
a lazy
Sunday
afternoon
however
the thought
crossed
my mind
a wristwatch
that tells time
and lets me
watch tv
besides
who knew

5/25/2019...

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She tried to please everyone who made a suggestion.
Pretty soon her balancing act was filled with congestion.
She was standing on a horse juggling six or eight knives.
A wristwatch, a magazine, and six bunnies, or maybe just five.

Trying to please everyone was unbelievable work.
Ribbons were in the air along with flowers that gave a jerk.
She kept balancing and juggling, into the night trying to please.
A bunch of carnival helpers who were stuck on flat out “tease”....

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a spurge, a spruce, a creamy spume
of Moscow mayday tree in bloom,
a crush, a diffidence innate
to youth, a long-awaited date,
a me, excited, nervous, pale,
a garden seat, a nightingale,
a slice of sun in strongest tea 
of dusk, a braid, a trendy tee,
a checkered knee-length skirt, a you, 
a sigh, another one, a few
looks at the wristwatch, an abyss
of desperation, a… a kiss. 


05.30.2019
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