Blowing Winds of Time
- Seasons March
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- Winds blow and leaves turn,
- take on dying colors,
- go dry and burn
- Billowing up into the sky,
- clouds that dissipate and die
- Then comes the cold,
- relentless until winter gets old
- Time goes by
- and soon enough spring is back.
- Time is blowing on the wind.
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- Year after year;
- spring blows in,
- bringing summer storms,
- and falling rain
- then winter again.
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- Change Marches
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- And time waits for no-one.
- So a young man has fun, and soon enough a son;
- And the winds blow, and go where they go;
- And they bring love, and hate, tears and fate;
- And soon enough an old man goes walking hand in hand;
- With other old people;
- With a father he barely can understand,
- except that he’s been there too.
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- So the spring leaves return until they fall
- And the snow buries all in an innocent blanket
- And we walk by the walls, and say hi to our friends;
- We are all like the leaves and the rain
- Except that we number our loved ones
- with names and stones, tears and pain.
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- Father and son a long march down the road;
- Each thinning in his own time, each failing in turn
- vanishing like a dream, Sons, fathers survive and move on
- leaving markers by the road for the fallen.
- We walk together with no hope of eternity
- Beyond handing off a baton;
- Not really enjoying the moment the baton gets handed on.
- Praying our children and our children’s children do better than we did;
- But knowing that in the end,
- We are like clouds going by.
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- Daisy in the Rain
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- I plant a daisy in the rain
- Thinking of fathers, grandfathers,
- their fathers and their father’s fathers;
- What must it have been like?
- What secrets could they tell me?
- What troubles did they bear?
- What feats they dare?
- Do they sleep in peace at last?
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- I look up at the sky
- And watch the clouds walk by;
- Whispers in my imagination
- And their voices live in my heart.
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- Chris
- By Christopher Hartly Holte
- June 17, 2012 · Silver Spring ·
- The Question
- and will there be sons and daughters?
- Will the baton be there to hand on?
- Will we endure, survive, thrive and learn?
- Will we ever learn, to live in peace?
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