LPiA-22 Nov. 25

[Tiger the Lion]

Let's Pretend it's April - Nov. 25


Rules: Write a poem for LPiA on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month have written 30 poems for the month of November. 

Topic : Write a poem inspired by a watch, a clock or another timekeeping device.

Form : Any

Line requirements: 8 or more 
Feel free to reply with comments or kudos as you wish. 

Questions?

[CRNDLSM]

1/299,792,458 of a second
for light to travel ONE METER
in a vacuum determined 1983.

30 degrees of an arc on a circle
with a radius of ONE METER
is the royal Egyptian cubit!!

The royal Egyptian cubit
is THE SPEED OF LIGHT
divided by the Radian.

The pyramids of Giza
standard unit of measure ~
is this a coincidence??

[TranquillityBase]

Piecework of time
bound to one wrist
a curious manacle
needs no twin
to bind me to fate.

I take it off,
an illusory act
of liberation,
but there’s no celebration

for I still hear its tick.
There is no tock
only the click
of Death’s smile
as I struggle to creep
past myself into sleep.

[dukealien]

Pre-Quantum Entanglement


Ah, how I remember
weekly windings of
our twenty-four-hour
Chelsea chronometers
deep underground
far from any ocean
used not for navigation
but for coordination
to ensure simultaneity
of... well, you know...
when all other time
references had ceased
or been, you know,
obliterated or occluded.

It was almost like
quantum entanglement–
all those clocks synchronized
to a single Zulu beat
exceeding, strictly speaking,
even the limiting
velocity of light.

[Mark A Becker]

After missing Thanksgiving dinner
when I was 12, my brother and I
finally realized that we could use
the slanting sun to determine direction,
and to make a fair guess of the time.
Our dad still made us carry his watch
so that we'd be home on time.

I still have my dad's watch,
though it quit ticking over 30 years ago.