i can't hold time
it races or oozes
i can't quite grasp it
when I was younger
time was a honey drop
golden, viscous
gravity-defying
oozing in slow motion
syrup time
lying in bed on saturday morning
lazing on the swing chair in the sun
the late brunch. the long lunch
the long now
syrup time is sweet
it drips and drizzles
one thing, one sensation
wallowing, basking
succulent time
suckling time
savouring time
too much of a good thing
a newly opened bottle
of late harvest riesling
my cup overflows
in-between time
sleepy-dream time
warm bath time
womb time
moon-bright
candle-light
but the other time
is salsa time
tabasco tempo
sharp, spicy, bitey
blue cheese time
time with tang
a bowlful of flavours
tossed salad of time
throat-grabbing moments
charred chilli
choking, coughing
water! water!
fire hose time
cleansing your gut
searing your soul
melting your brain
change time
chronos time
- tick tick tick
kairos time
- pop the cork
but in between
there's syrup time
and salsa time
marsala and masala
and at times
the big bang
that explosive sauce
habanero-molasses-mango chutney
fire-sweet
smokey-smooth
long now: right now!
big here: right here!
outflowing, inbreaking
safe and dangerous
smooth your skin
and cut your lip
"ah" and "ouch"
make and break
breathe and gasp
live and die
die and live
time beyond time
time out of time
time for all time
all time
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I've spent the evening exploring time - hence the above.
Thanks to jonny I've recently come across the remarkable jordon cooper.
Jordon has an immeasurably valuable Quotes directory. So I've been able to look up "Time" for our forthcoming worship gigs and found many, many wonderful quotes.
Then I went to my shelves, and have to recommend The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations by Robert Andrews. (ISBN 0140293078) What other book has quotes by Saddam Hussein, Buckminster Fuller, Clint Eastwood, Douglas Coupland, Evlis Costello, Madonna, Monica Lewinsky, C.S. Lewis, Shirley Temple, James Cameron, Mahalia Jackson and Isabella Allende?
So many excellent time quotes in there as I discovered. I'm in the process of typing them up.
And I love this quote:
"More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now" - Brian Eno