Time Poems Quotes

“The lights of the town
distant across the harbour
I am one of those
who were unable to sleep
– the sentience of Time
beneath a shoreless sea of drifting stars

while you were woven to the moon
And you –

You were the ocean
and we were the land
You lay down unflinching
You lay down forgetting
And you were the ocean
and we were the land”
― Tamara Rendell, Mystical Tides

“Time's Magpies by Stewart Stafford

Time’s magpies swoop to taunt and rob,
And pluck out hair and gums carefree.
Opportunity and energy drained by mob,
As we duel pitiless reality.

The cat’s jowls swelled in uproar,
His gut sags and snarls with pain.
Feathery barbs of a matador,
Feline fleeing to copse again.

A younger cat enters the fight,
Ousting the aged tom.
Crown prince routs thieving flight,
A proud lion of dawn's sun.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The Ticking Spiral by Stewart Stafford

Man - the only creature that knows it dies,
Creates structures to measure its demise.
To poke and prod with hows and whys;
Hours, seconds, melted candles of surprise.

From booming birth; to bankrupt death,
From nascent looks; to the last breath,
The torch is passed to generations yet.
To carry forth in a cycle reset.

The ticking clock of heartbeats ends,
As we say goodbye to family and friends,
To return to wherever we first transcend,
Time's ever-flowing river never bends.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Trifecta End by Stewart Stafford

Love’s bitterest end has come,
Inmost bonds — a cypher austere,
Choked by emotive drought,
Save for one evaporating tear.

Land’s end is real; I am there,
Nothing lower to disgrace me,
A flat-earther standing ovation,
The shock of rock bottom is free.

End times scar; prophesied rivers run dry,
The Fallen unleashed, cracked earth hisses,
Conflagration arises on darkest wing—
No swansong, no betraying kisses.

© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford