Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TIME IS A SPACE, by BERENICE VAN SLYKE


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TIME IS A SPACE, by                    
First Line: Time is a space between two miseries
Last Line: While it escapes between the ticks and tocks.
Alternate Author Name(s): Heaton, Maurice C., Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The


Time is a space between two miseries,
Between two knockings on life's splintered door
Through which one glimpses wonder stretched at ease
Waiting for conquering steps upon that floor.
Tlme is a moving point that has no rest,
Accented by our sorrow or our bliss;
Its measure is the mounting of the crest
Whose slope is slow oblivion of this.
It is the outer circle of our death
Which like a broken water ripples out
Beyond the dying flutter of our breath
To join immensities past faith or doubt.
Infinitely we close in finite clocks
While it escapes between the ticks and tocks.





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