Poetry Corner 2

Time

Time can speed up slow down turn back travel Stop

By Carl ‘Papa’ Palmer of Old Mill Road in Ridgeway, Virginia, lives in University Place, Washington. He is retired from the military and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) enjoying life as ‘Papa’ to his grand descendants and being a Franciscan Hospice volunteer.

By Carl ‘Papa’ Palmer of Old Mill Road in Ridgeway, Virginia, lives in University Place, Washington. He is retired from the military and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) enjoying life as ‘Papa’ to his grand descendants and being a Franciscan Hospice volunteer.

Time Clock Terrorists

Last to arrive the bell has rung they barrel into the time clock line the clock hasn’t yet clicked over to ‘one’

You can set your watch with this smoke break band sitting in restroom stalls with cigarettes and cellphones in hand

They’re first to the microwave to warm up their lunch Where were they at five minutes to break I’ll bet you have a hunch

Clean-up done and ready to leave camped out promptly at ten ‘til crowded around the time clock like hyenas surrounding a kill

The clock ticks to top of the hour and expressing considerable sorrow they punch out before the ringing dies so they can do it all again tomorrow The Year Has Its Hours

A moment will shine on itself, then go,

leaving matters, hooks, and time.

To write about this year may take forever.

Though we work at aspects repaying with lies; the ones we tell ourselves;

our stories unwind, so, perhaps we’ll remember the good ones, any, which holds to truth.

By Antoni Ooto. Antoni is an internationally published poet and flash fiction writer. Well-known for his abstract expressionist art, Antoni now adds his voice to poetry. Reading and studying the works of many poets has opened up another means of self-expression.

By Douglas V. Miller. Douglas is an author of 17 chapbooks, a bible study, and two novels, and he resides in Northeast Indiana.