Thursday, September 28, 2006

Lifetimes

breath
delivers the fuel
of a lifetime

tomorrow, mañana, demain
how they whip by
rewriting forgotten lines

brief candles flicker
a nod to the great poets
and then out, and out

9 comments:

Natalia L. Rudychev said...

Excellent write! Very powerful!

polona said...

i love these few breaths :)

J. Andrew Lockhart said...

very nice! I like the last line--

steve said...

aurora - thanks so much :)

natalia - I appreciate these words.

polona - thank you for that one

andrew - now I think it must be the Frost influence - "and miles to go before I sleep, and..."

Plus Ultra said...

You surprise with just a few words, thats the stuff of really good poetry

Masago said...

Yes, excellent choice and arrangement of words to convey a relavent topic.

Don Iannone, D.Div., Ph.D. said...

"breath
delivers the fuel
of a lifetime"

It does indeed Steve. Good one!

Kai said...

nice

steve said...

plus ultra - such an encouraging comment - thank you!

masago - it borrows a lot from some classic lines - thank you!

don iannone - thank you - thankfully the cost for this fuel remains about the same.

kai - hope you had a nice birthday - and thank you!