Get Your Premium Membership

Time - David Brooks's Blog

About David Brooks
(Show Details...)
Bloggers Photo

Time

Blog Posted:6/13/2016 7:10:00 AM

June 12 Med...
To self: Today, be mindful of Time.

Time heals all wounds? I'm not sure that's completely true. To heal is to restore completely or make healthy again.
Time may help ease the pain, or may scar over the wound, but many pains don't completely disappear, ever.
But time allows pain to lessen. Teaches us how to tolerate it. Live and deal with it. Be more in control of it.
Time gives us lessons, if we allow ourselves to learn them. Time leads us to our "now." To today. To this month or this year. Whatever your "now" is. With time comes the wisdom that lets your now be all it, and you, can be.
To some, time is the enemy, so we spend lots of money combating it. Where pain is involved it can be our friend.
Regardless, it marches on. God knows.
----------------------------------

Time
by D.A. Brooks

Tick, tock, tick, tock.
   I hear the days march on.
Tick, tock, tick, tock
   Those days are long since gone.

Of innocence and purity
   And childhood games with friends
Of happy, laughing, giggling times,
   and playtime without ends.

But now our time it slows and goes
   and gives us mem'ries still
Of times when time flew oh so fast
   'til now, when time's to kill.

... but, never to stand still.
... marching on and on until ...
----------------------------------

"How did it get so late so soon?"
      - Dr. Seuss

"There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying."
      - Sarah Dessen,
         Just Listen

"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again."
      - Eric Roth, The Curious Case
         of Benjamin Button

----------------------------------

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8...
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; ...



Please Login to post a comment
Date: 6/13/2016 7:36:00 AM
you always come up with such excellent quotes on your topics and your topics are "timeless" (time becomes a major themes for poets like me after a certain age!)
Login to Reply

My Past Blog Posts

 
Helpers
Date Posted: 6/13/2016 7:17:00 AM
Time
Date Posted: 6/13/2016 7:10:00 AM
Grace
Date Posted: 6/11/2016 10:17:00 AM
Name Calling
Date Posted: 6/11/2016 10:14:00 AM
Cousins
Date Posted: 6/9/2016 5:27:00 PM
Women
Date Posted: 6/8/2016 6:30:00 PM
Singing
Date Posted: 6/7/2016 6:12:00 PM
Body Language
Date Posted: 6/6/2016 3:51:00 PM
Purity
Date Posted: 6/5/2016 8:03:00 AM
Variety
Date Posted: 6/4/2016 12:32:00 PM
Distractions
Date Posted: 6/3/2016 8:44:00 AM
Fellowship
Date Posted: 6/2/2016 12:21:00 PM
Loneliness
Date Posted: 6/1/2016 8:14:00 AM
Disagreement
Date Posted: 5/31/2016 7:31:00 AM
Contemplation on a Friend's Death
Date Posted: 5/30/2016 10:08:00 AM
Mercy
Date Posted: 5/29/2016 8:38:00 AM
Question
Date Posted: 5/29/2016 6:11:00 AM
Today
Date Posted: 5/28/2016 12:27:00 PM
Growth
Date Posted: 5/26/2016 11:34:00 PM

My Recent Poems

Date PostedPoemTitleFormCategories
6/13/2016 Time Free versememory,time,
6/9/2016 Charlotte Free versebest friend,cousin,friend
6/8/2016 Women of the Family Free versefamily,leadership,women,
6/5/2016 Dementia Free verseage,caregiving,faith,god,
6/4/2016 Ruler of the Garden Free verseflower,garden,mother,moth
6/4/2016 Life Lessons Free versebird,discrimination,hate,
6/3/2016 Braggart Limerickcar,grave,humor,teen,
6/2/2016 The Supper Table Free verseblessing,childhood,cultur
6/1/2016 Cinquain On Alone Cinquaindepression,health,how i f
5/31/2016 Haiku On Disagreement Haikuanger,emotions,feelings,
5/30/2016 Brotherhood Free versebrother,childhood,
5/30/2016 The Path of Life Free versedeath,devotion,i love you
5/29/2016 Precious Cargo Free versechildhood,
5/29/2016 Happy French Defeated Day Free versecelebration,holiday,humor
5/29/2016 In His Chair Free verseabsence,abuse,death,emoti
5/28/2016 Inspiration Free verseencouraging,
5/28/2016 Worry Not Free versecharacter,emotions,feelin
5/27/2016 Get Going Free versebody,health,
5/27/2016 She Rose Each Day Free versecaregiving,childhood,dedi
5/26/2016 Monotonous Delight Prose Poetryearth,feelings,good morni
5/26/2016 Endeavor Rhymecaregiving,humanity,
5/26/2016 A Difference Rhymecaregiving,childhood,succ
5/26/2016 I'M Rich Light Verseage,friend,friendship,
5/25/2016 Learning Time I do not know?age,student,
5/25/2016 Changes Dramatic Versediscrimination,emotions,f
5/25/2016 Laugh Out Loud Limerickcharacter,cheer up,depres
5/25/2016 You Stand With Me I do not know?love,
5/25/2016 Me Or You I do not know?caregiving,character,enco
5/25/2016 Still Here Prosecaregiving,character,chil

My Photos


Fav Poems

No Fav Poems Selected

Fav Poets

PoetCountry 
Becca Teagan United States Flag United States Read
Tom Quigley United States Flag United States Read
Eve Roper United States Flag United States Read
Andrea Dietrich United States Flag United States Read
Poet Destroyer A United States Flag United States Read
Cyndi Macmillan Canada Flag Canada Read
Joanna Daniel India Flag India Read
Karam Misra India Flag India Read

Book: Shattered Sighs