Time walks a longer road
than Earth our sojourned home;
together our lives we build and grow
our strength, our love, our stand
cobbles each, and each another’s stone
in the road we walk with time.
Time walks a longer road
we sojourn the best we can;
our inward diaries mark the passings
of those who sojourn on;
as with turning pages we love again
and in our hearts we hope:
They walk a different path;
they walk this time in peace;
they walk and still the garden grows
where at journey’s end we’ll meet;
together then with love we’ll walk
where time can’t pass us by.
Copyright © 1998
(All Rights Reserved)
Author notes
I wrote this for my grandmother.
In a list
A contest entry
- For the family of Jessica M. Currin by Whispering Winds.
300 points, ended April 11, 2007, 8 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Contest In Memory of Marilyn, and in Support of Family and Friends by Lady-Pegasus.
1000 points, ended April 13, 2007, 26 entries
Honorable winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Prewrites by February Moon.
1750 points, ended July 31, 2007, 22 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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Firstly, congrats on the HM, this really is a beautiful piece. I enjoyed this, the only suggestion I would have is to find another word for "sojourn". You used it three times in the first two stanzas and I really feel doing that takes away from the word. I love the lyrical flow of this though, and I wish you the best of luck in my contest. Thanks for entering!
Chelsea
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Thank you for your contest submission and for allowing the printing that we may share this with the family and friends. It is a very well written piece indeed and, though written for another, fits quite well in here. grief is a universal feeling and makes it easier to bare when we share such with others, so again, thank you for sharing this with us. It has an almost lyrical sound to it, gentle and swaing, so fitting for a piece of this nature
Best of luck in this and all of your endeavors. Hetohke'e *
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you are welcome, I hope it helps to ease their loss
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This is such a beautiful poem for your grandmother. And it really bothers me to do what i need to do. But this contest is for the family of Jessica currin. I am putting all the poems together and giving them to the parents of Jess. If you want, you can write one just for her. I would LOVE to read it.
I am sorry for the loss of your grandmother and thank you so much for entering my contest.
Tammy
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what a loving tribute to your grandma...I can sense by all the works I have read of yours, that she is one exceptional lady and is probably smiling down from heaven (yes, heaven and holding Gods hand) No time there...just eternity...this soothes the readers soul...very peaceful...good job!
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This is an amazing piece, one that should help to soothe the family so that they know others are touched by their tragedy. Beautifully written. Patricia
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thank you
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Beautiful
What a beautiful and personal piece. This is very soft and shows a golden heart. How proud she must have been of you, and you, so of her too. So warm Ken. This is a magic verse. ~Pamela
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I believe she would have been... She never read it.
This poem ends a short story about the day she died it is my favorite piece of work.
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