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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426158" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Timely Rubaiyat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If outside in is spelled E.M.I.T.<br>and inside out spells T.I.M.E. fit<br>unto the day the evil thereof see<br>fit to a T however played one's wit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But what to Time is 'inside' or is 'out'? <br>for Time's dimension both can do without, <br>vain signpost vane may spin now east now west, <br>crow heeds no fixed road stop sign roundabout.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus pride precedes greed's fall, Fate far and wide<br>Indicts Man's might, plight sets gleams' dreams aside.<br>Most confidence masks weakness, sorry schemes<br>Ensue, Time tables turns, spurns deals inside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vainglorious is immaturity, <br>gifts mirage mirror of futility<br>reflecting on societal concern<br>defining off and on in sanity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some comfort find vouchsafing certainty<br>though blind most minds before dark door they flee, <br>for insecurities behind bluff masks<br>still smack of shameless insincerity.<br> <br>What hides behind Time's trap, no map may see, <br>few counter fate, discover guilt edged key<br>of &quot;me and thee&quot; when once behind its veil, <br>what will prevail, beneath what scrutiny? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Birth - berth, worth - earth, that sweet felicity<br>which flashed upon the page of Destiny<br>one little lifetime soon is swallowed up, <br>archive deleted from man's memory? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time helter-skelter headlong spins, all's rush, <br>&quot;I will survive! &quot; slays others in the crush, <br>Merge, surge then splurge, urge on, and then strike-out, <br>Ephemeral applause drowned out by hush.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From alpha unto omega Time's hum<br>reels strange range wheels recycling all that come<br>first cry, last cry, lies die, then die's recast<br>as harmony seeks equilibrium.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thrust's force attraction contradictions seeks<br>to overcome, Time's great equation's speaks<br>to recreate and recombine, stem cells<br>flux mustered, mastered, peaks, weak wanes, then reeks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">New cycles spin, unpin past wins, address<br>fresh challenges, evolve, adapt, contest<br>tired tenets, genes rewired, force fired set scene<br>for stranger change, to counter maladdresses.<br> <br>No sense in dwelling on vast past success, <br>which in itself is source for future stress, <br>why break sound barriers that Time instills<br>teach reach, brake, sense retain? More may prove less! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Term prudence &quot;safety&quot;? Whore's short-term success.<br>Interests vested, spendthrift years contest, <br>Modus operandi, Time Time kills, <br>Each icon old fresh status quo divests.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time's Tortoise, Man is fable's Hare, confined<br>in mortal contradictions which the mind<br>finds quite unhuman, taking what it gives<br>what lives soon undertaken, chaff to grind.<br> <br>snide greed, pride, speed, soon overcome<br>Is it justice? Is it balance? Those ahead soon d[r]ead behind, <br>Making room through swift disposals for proposals less confined, <br>Express need for further testing, jesting, questing, inquest dumb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time, tempter and preemptor, auctions choice<br>as bubble-gum exploding, empty voice, <br>one generation fades away, one more<br>takes cue to strut as peacock and rejoice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What cheers have penetrated great divide<br>between one era and the next? what guide<br>avoided asteroid explosion set<br>to make clean sweep of chatter and tongue-tied.<br> <br>Time mutates, very speedily translates<br>as viral spiral gyral ices cake, <br>spliced monky to man key plan or grave mistake, <br>downsizing, soon induces second states<br>that pace race, trace select, until the past<br>fast buries past's repasts, idols outcast, <br>no ‘Ergo cogito' shows ‘sum' in store, <br>all dwindles in nothingness at last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time destroys its own foundations, rule of thumb<br>Leads ever onward, vicious spiral scrum, <br>where one way trip soon rips predispositions<br>without concession, tic-toc blocked, locked, dumb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Intuition tunes to pattern ducts intelligence designed.<br>Mankind must forward press, and quickly, or its mainspring may unwind, <br>Ever onward, tripping, hasty, vicious forward spiral-scrum.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time, true master of new master, swift may slave of slave become, <br>In a twinkling of an eyelid, with an inkling of the mind, <br>Most by wayside fall, and falling fail to rise, we seldom find<br>Each with grief reach silver lining welcome, wheel spins go and come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time, prestidigitator, spurns prestige, <br>sand grains drain, Time, replenished stands the seige, <br>when boom goes bust dust tomb entrusts low, great, <br>rebuilds from scratch big bang hatch, scorns vestiges.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time's zenith ride descendant has prepared, <br>mutes bugle's rally cry round cause compared<br>to none as pendulum against itself is swung, <br>hung, drawn and quartered, preconceptions pared.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What footprints may be gleaned from sands of Time, <br>what idylls and what odysseys to rhyme<br>may be retained as in an amber bubble, <br>what climb, what fall, what forfeiture, what crime? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From timely opportunities some draw<br>conclusions which confusion turn when more<br>is known or shown of causal wheel or karmic churn<br>which burns or freezes, frieze all still ignore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time, excellent musician, drummer, drum, <br>is clay, pot, playful potter, part and sum, <br>fobs off mocked mortals puny pleas and adds<br>where it subtracts, leaves fiction, facts, both numb.<br> <br>Evanescent, effervescent matrix grid, <br>vibrates through tuning fork in road well hid<br>from sight and insight, secret intertwined<br>with second-thoughts which time distorts unbid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time, both predator and dater, turns the bread <br>of life to crumbs, life's water ices, - sped<br>past hope for scope in halter's halted, while, <br>Time onward flies, belying time well fed.<br> <br>Magician fly, man's pyramids remind<br>our power, pomp pain hour stomp, romp turns to rind, <br>blossom blows, Time, heedless flows, drip, drip, <br>pips toast at post, tips, slips, - grain grist to grind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time knows no evil, coeval is with all, <br>withal is none, as naught, both call, recall, <br>pride, fall, low, tall, slow, fast, at last remains<br>as silent witness, stage, play, box and stall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tempus fugit, Time is flying, soon we're dust, <br>is it dying? is it buying time? Earth's crust<br>plays little part forcasting lava flow<br>when time is up, it still observes, non-plussed.<br> <br>'Festina lente', 'hasten slowly', Fate<br>may be amused when we'd anticipate<br>the way the dice is rolled a turn or two, <br>soon ticks off guilty temptor from gilt gate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trust intuition, method leads astray<br>where narrow will or shallow leads the way, <br>but channelled energy may help create, <br>not barter aim in mind for fame today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Contract a link between 'pretend' 'extend', <br>where end to means is never means to end, <br>where current flow is revolts and study churn<br>though true solutions may seem round the bend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Invention is extension catalyzed, <br>or role reversal, vistas reapprized, <br>what complicated seemed is later seen<br>as simple step towards a goal disguised.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time's tide abides while mortal meets fate which<br>puts final touch to an unfinished stitch, <br>however phrased dust back to dust returns<br>spites ‘lame' excuses, game of toss and pitch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up tick, down toc, clock witnesses spring shoots <br>of causal arborescence, 'right', 'wrong' roots, <br>with hindsight show man unpreprepared<br>for Past and Future playing in cahoots.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though rhyme and reason often are withheld<br>till time and season pass, their winter knelled, <br>true timing is essential where the mind<br>would tap the forces from tomorrow welled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who would evolve must choose from many doors, <br>each offers either fame or blame, doom draws, <br>each offers health or wealth, advance or pause, <br>must think the link between effect and cause.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What fame is, what is doom, though, who foresees? <br>What choice reject, what opportunities<br>take for, or take as, granted, who can tell? <br>Time twists or undertows the flows men seize.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What matters and to whom? What gravities<br>apply when anti-mater equals tease? <br>conundrums which a life-long paradox<br>entertains until all memories<br>are atomised upon a karmic breeze, <br>blown willy-nilly till, like honeyed bees, <br>they bumble on towards a homely hive, <br>they stumble on till patterns by degrees<br>from angles wide frame focus, offer keys.<br>For who between the lines can read, chalk, cheese, <br>discerns, the waft and weft of substance, learns<br>to draw the line dividing wood from trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life's littleness &quot;ist alles in die Welt&quot;, <br>mocks Man's ambitions, motivations melt<br>to watershed necrologies. Black crepe <br>with no escape whate'er regrets are felt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time's muzzle muffles boast, toast, day by day, <br>effects' and causes' subtle interplay<br>through life's incessant dream theme ebb and flow <br>efforts prove vain, love, pain, all's bubble bray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">None may control coincidence at play<br>flaking dates and energy away<br>while winter of our discontent's stop/go<br>spins into vertigo, then fades away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Self-righteous say religion shows the way, <br>agnostics best of both worlds want, display<br>their reticence as sense, pretence as plus, <br>few atheists would haste to piper pay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most blow hot, cold, quit stage to sink unheard <br>before they even feel life's ripples stirred, <br>Time can't be reined, restrained, no string and bow, <br>sends arrow through entanglement preferred.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why worry what tomorrow, if at all, <br>may offer, laughter share, spurning wailing wall, <br>each wakes one day, hopes hollow, probate proved, <br>few follow winding sheet, trump final call. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time's telomeres may stretch, but sands of hope, <br>free ride from heyday ended, broken rope<br>recount lost time expended, ghost mirage, <br>no soft soap ever smoothes, naught soothes blind grope. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bright spark, life's candle gutters, movements cease, <br>one cry, heart flutters, shutters, 'Rest in Peace! '<br>with no surcease, one sigh then curtains drawn <br>while legatees bread butter, fleece, apiece. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Youth's hopes are caught in Time's relentless vice, <br>what opportunity's repeated twice? <br>Life's joke's is on Creation's head, vibes jibed, <br>one innings leaves all after-thoughts to lice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So grasp the moving finger as it writes, <br>wait not on Time, tune tide to timing, flights<br>of fancy twin with opportunity<br>which may not seed again. Feed dream delights! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These rhymes hold no bonanza, moral plum, <br>Time's trick wick tireless flickers, static hum<br>moves forwards egg and chicken parsec plot<br>as we, time-stricken, quicken final strum.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(24 October 2010)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q>
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and inside out spells T.I.M.E. fit
unto the day the evil thereof see
fit to a T however played one's wit.

But what to Time is 'inside' or is 'out'? 
for Time's dimension both can do without, 
vain signpost vane m..."></div>
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