<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353481" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sic Transeunt Tempora</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pushing up, <br>amongst rust-brown<br>and green furze, <br>glowing blue from within, <br>Michaelmas daisies<br>(who know nothing of Michael – nor his mass) .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now, as the earth spins<br>in a darker, colder, windier orbit, <br>their leaves are brittle-green, <br>or hang like red spears<br>waiting to fall<br>and take their place<br>in next year’s compost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dry flower-heads<br>shrink in on themselves.<br>Like old men, <br>in extra large overcoats <br>tensing into scarves<br>and turned up collars, <br>to keep in their little warmth.<br>These too wait to take their place<br>in next year’s bonfire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remember <br>the closing sequences<br>of the Seventh Seal: <br>men and women, caught<br>in a maze of interdependence, <br>led away in a disjointed dance by Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only two escaped: <br>one, a visionary<br>of little sense; <br>the other a woman of sense<br>but little vision.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Brian+Taylor">Brian Taylor</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353481" data-title="Sic Transeunt Tempora de Brian Taylor" data-description="Pushing up, amongst rust-brown and green furze, glowing blue from within, Michaelmas daisies (who know nothing of Michael – nor his mass) . But now, as the earth spins in a darker, colder, windier orbit, their leaves are brittle-green, or ..."></div> </div> </div>

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