Time’s Byproduct by Francis Conlon

Francis Conlon | January 12th, 2025 | poetry | No Comments

Poem

Maybe time is like a product,
Gains and losses are in the tally,
One rule suggests don’t be idiotic,
‘Tho cries and shouts fill the rally.

Thoughts and actions occur in time,
Never enough for my enthusiasm,
Nor a place for love sublime,
That empty notch is like a chasm.

Move beyond to a new dimension,
A consciously altered view,
All worldly things held in suspension,
As time’s soul does a review.

Such is the theme of its appeal,
To keep time in this zone.
Neither early or late, yet so real,
A twang of bowstring, it is flone.

Poet Bio

Francis Conlon is a retired and recovering teacher. For the past 20 years, he has worked as a seasonal river ranger and boat inspector at Yampa River State Park in northwest Colorado. He has published in the local Valley Voice and in Westward Quarterly. He currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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