Category: Life

run on

On By theisswriterIn Daily Exercise, Experience, Life, Music, Poem, Poetry, Running, Time1 Comment

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I run
(not) for time,
(not) for pace,
(not) to any particular place;

I run
(just) for time,
(just) for pace,
(just) in my life’s particular place;

I run
(not) a step,
(not) a race,
(not) with any particular grace;

I run
(just) a step,
(just) a race,
(just) for my life’s particular grace.

…

(Not) time for a run.
(Just) time for a run.

 

 

Thanks for reading.

-j

 

Songs listened to during composition of this post (Spotify playlist):

  • Singularity, Jon Hopkins
  • Emerald Rush, Jon Hopkins
  • Bloodflow, Grandbrothers
  • From a Distance, Grandbrothers
  • Long Forgotten Future, Grandbrothers

future unknown

On By theisswriterIn Daily Exercise, Experience, Free Verse, Future, Life, Poem, Poetry, Time, UnknownLeave a comment

If I were a present
I’d be the future.

If I were tangible
I’d be untouchable.

If I were a scene
I’d be unseen.

If I were an object
I’d be a subject.

If I were a word
I’d be unknown.

 

Thanks for reading.

-j

temporal

On By theisswriterIn Experience, Life, Time, UncategorizedLeave a comment

If minutes were sixty-one seconds long, and hours were sixty-one minutes long, and days were twenty-five hours long, and weeks were eight days long, and months were five weeks long, and years were thirteen months long, would there still be enough time; to do what we wish to do; to say what we wish to say; to see what we wish to see; to hear what we wish to hear; to taste what we wish to taste; to smell what we wish to smell; to touch what we wish to touch; to end a sentence needing ending…

 

Thanks for reading.

-j