LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR WISDOM
“All against always Being at all Time always”
Clear as mud so we close the book
and look elsewhere for wisdom.
We look in the attic amongst boxed-away treasures.
We look in the basement where the black mold grows.
We look in the tool shed where we keep our good measures.
We look in the closet where the naked folks clothe.
Did we find it?
Do we have time?
I have to exercise now.
It keeps my blood sugar normal.
I’m writing and writing and going insane.
Time to put down the pen
and look elsewhere for wisdom.
I looked in the heavens, birthplace of all crime
and I found Father Time singing soft songs sublime.
He sang songs with allusion and songs of illusion.
He sang in third-person sad songs of confusion.
He sang in perfect meter and in simple rhyme.
He sang, “Father Time couldn’t stop thinking about time.”
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Jason Preu 
👏🏻 Favorite poem!
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When I realized what you were doing, I’ve gone back and I’m reading them all in order. This one is my favorite so far. It’s really so rich! So many great lines!
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Right on! When I go back to edit these – I have to fix the meter in that last stanza! It’s off and been bugging me all night. 🙂
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I enjoyed this but at the end I started thinking: why is Father time a boy?
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What a great question! Let’s find out…
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First hit: http://www.novareinna.com/festive/oft.html I am going to do some more digging about other personifications of time…(great question. This type of things sends me on research blenders…)
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Ha ha! Well, now you’ve given me more reading!
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So now I’m thinking: the planets have been assigned a gender because of the gods they’re named after, and so Saturn was a boy and he rules time and therefore father time is a boy. Honestly. I’m not satisfied with this conclusion at all! 😀 But I thank you for providing answers 🙂
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Agreed. It isn’t very satisfying. That’s why I wanna find some other tellings!
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Here is a rabbit hole: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_fate_deities
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Funny how we have to personify things to better understand them. Or measure them. Time is real because we see its effects but we can’t accurately measure it. And yet we run by clockwork. No more rabbit holes, jdoublep! I have already missed an hour of sleep today because father time stole it!
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Thank you for this Sunra! You explain Einstein’s theory of time better than I’d read him explain it himself…:D 💕
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😊 That’s kind of you to say, Jade! I certainly couldn’t get my head around his equations.
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