POEMS: Deja Vu 4 2 and Playing With Time-Fire

July 12, 2012 · Scotorum

This pair of Ottava Rimas were written for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Our topic is what we would see and do using a time machine.

DEJA VU 4 2

We’re all getting tired of going by car.
We need something new to make our bell ring.
Perhaps a new vehicle could take us far.
A sleek time machine might be just the thing!
I would go back before time raised the bar;
when I and my lover were fresh as the Spring,
Enjoying each other in love that we shared,
hearts beating in time as two souls were bared.

Not just the lovemaking turned up the heat,
but two minds of a kind which perceived its mate.
Impulsive hand-holding and intertwined feet.
Their chance for a dance on a fortunate date,
was enjoyed in the void where two heartstring ends meet.
Back to that unique intersection of fate,
A time-shifting machine would be gone for so long,
while two sing the song which was never sung wrong!

Copyright July 11th 2012 RGD

PLAYING WITH TIME-FIRE

My first trip to England followed upon
the quadricentennial of Shakespeare’s birth.
Stratford-on Avon his hometown, on park lawn,
had an exhibition of great depth and girth.
Included was a glimpse down a street then long gone,
with models of people from that time, froze in mirth
The eeriest sight I ever did see,
Looked, sounded, smelled so very real to me!

If I had a time machine, I’d travel back
to the wilds of Elizabethan England,
Go poking about through that open time crack.
See if the Tudor was part of a ruder band.
Or if they knew old joys which modern times lack.
What burned bright when flames of prior knowledge were fanned?
And how would my presence then affect the future?
…Close back that crack; anyone got a suture?

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