Poem for Poetry Friday

Here's a poem I wrote for Poetry Friday:


Clock

The clock ticks
like an old friend,

marking off minutes and hours,

making the earth turn

like a mobile

hanging in the dark.

The clock ticks

like a bomb waiting

to go off, the bomb

of morning that will blast

its radios and TVs,

its car engines,

its roar, rumble, talk.

The clock ticks,

singing of days gone by

and days to come,

humming with maybes,

buzzing like a hive

of probablies and

possiblies.

The clock ticks,

but I can't always hear it.

My mind ticks, too,

with checklists and worries,

with nouns and verbs

and even a few adjectives.

The clock ticks.

—Kate Coombs, 2012

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Today Poetry Friday is at Katya Czaja's site, Read. Write. Repeat.