Ah life! Life is but a moment, nothing more,
to taste, to feel, to know all that there is;
to see the wind sail clouds and rustle trees
under the sky, above, across the moor.
And like the wind, unseen, diffuse, yet real,
it rains and dies as quickly as it came
but while it lasts, moments of fame and shame
will shine then, like a movie, fade to reel.
Yet it is in mundane minutes in between —
the ordinary hours that we live —
that we truly gain ourselves and truly give,
which makes life’s suckling breasts so hard to wean.
Ah life! Life is but a moment, nothing more,
when death enters the womb’s eternal door.
Copyright ©2001 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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