Words While We Wait - Day 4
Words While We Wait from Lindsay, Ontario
THE PENDULUM
Poet: Laura Fox
Artist: Lesley Drummond
The pendulum swings...
Tick tock, tick tock.
Day after day..
Minute by minute..
Counting the time..
Marking it’s place in history.
This uneasy time...
These unpredictable days...
Tick tock.. tick tock..
Never to repeated,
Unable to be redone.
History in the making
Every breath
Every thought
Preserve it,
keep it safe..
Ready to recall..
This is the time for peace..
These are the days of stillness
The days of staying safe
Protected and sheltered in our homes.
The world is fearfully resting..
And the Universe is holding it’s breath
As “normal” is gearing up for it’s return..
Tick Tock, Tick Tock..
Minute by minute
Hour by Hour ..
keeping the pace..
Marking our survival...
And then...
Gong, Gong, Gong....
The clock announces another hour
We are still safe..
we are still strong...
Tick Tock.
Tick Tock
A rhythm that grows louder in the silence..
Like the beating of our hearts
As we wait for the return.
Tick Tock...
Tick Tock...
Time to Reflect..
Time to Remember....
THE PENDULUM
About the poet, Laura Fox
Laura Fox lives in Lindsay, Ontario and has always had a flair for writing, even as a young child. Laura admits, she loves to spend time “looking around” and noticing “those things” that others don’t quite see the same way, using her observations as inspiration for her poems.
THE PENDULUM
About the artist, Lesley Drummond
Lesley Drummond is an artist and educator who has been actively involved in the Arts Community in Kawartha Lakes for over thirty-five years. Varied travel experiences as well as her immediate world provide subject matter for her artwork. Lesley’s preferred media are acrylics, mixed media experiments and ink on paper.
