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a moment in sky time
by George Hoernerstreaks of high clouds run
north to south down the valley
crossed by contrails making
a chessboard in the sky
the world reflected
people, places, things
on the squares silent
waiting for movement
events, only action,
missing from this board
all hoping for some
magical occurrence
all held in place
by inaction
this moment
timeless in the eyes
the races unable
or unwilling to
make the first move
to move time forward
unable to reverse
the positions taken
the world spins
on its axis
moving through space
around a sun
that doesn't care
through time no one
can measure
12/03/2007
Posted on 12/07/2007
Copyright © 2024 George Hoerner
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Laurie Blum on 12/07/07 at 05:16 PM I always like poems that look at the abstract. on my Favorites! |
| Posted by Leonard M Hawkes on 12/08/07 at 03:31 AM I like this--I know Star Valley. |
| Posted by Kathleen Wilson on 12/09/07 at 11:48 PM An amazing moment.. as if time stops and introspectively stares. No. That's you staring... in enlightened perspective. Love the chessboard analogy. I am sure it looked like that, felt like that. Excellent. |
| Posted by Nancy Ames on 02/09/08 at 08:47 PM I wanted to see some of your writing, George, after you commented on mine, "The Dawn Shadow'. This is really good and it's like reading the landscape, so visual and spirited. |
| Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 11/10/08 at 01:26 PM I could just imagine, George, when you first saw this image, how excited the implements to your expression must have gotten at the notion,
that they would be put to the employ of capturing this incredible imagery for all of us to see and to feel how it must have been to be where you were at the time of its capture. |
| Posted by Kate Demeree on 04/18/09 at 01:18 AM There is so much more than words in this... there is color, sound and emotion! Wonderful! |
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