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26th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1986 Kit Harrington (actor – Game of Thrones)
Died:
2001 Nigel Hawthorne (actor)
On This Day:
1982 TIME announces that its Man Of The Year is a computer
Have a good Wednesday, 26th December
There Is No Time
there is no time
time is man’s skin
it cracks and crackles and shrinks
in life’s passing-by
in the fire of being
telling the hours
then letting them be
in the ever reverberating
moment of silence
in the smoking dance
of the evening star and the midnight sun
in the curl of the leaf
in the dove’s swiftly
graceful and fluttered
gesture of dying
there is no time
time is the shooting
comet of recall
strewing heaven with the sparks
of stories no one will ever hear again
time’s my love for you
the lizard movements
in your body that come and go
to fill the hollows
with the fire of telling
those many faces of departure
there is no time
just the pulse of the heart
as pain under eye-shells
just the emptied tell-skin
of this poem
splotched and measured
by cancer words of forgetting
like lizard shit
– Breyten Breytenbach
On Time
Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race,
Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,
Whose speed is but the heavy plummet’s pace;
And glut thyself with what thy womb devours,
Which is no more than what is false and vain,
And merely mortal dross;
So little is our loss,
So little is thy gain.
For when as each thing bad thou hast intombed,
And last of all thy greedy self consumed,
Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss
With an individual kiss,
And Joy shall overtake us as a flood;
When every thing that is sincerely good
And perfectly divine,
With truth, and peace, and love, shall ever shine
About the supreme throne
Of Him, t’ whose happy-making sight alone
When once our heav’nly-guided soul shall climb,
Then, all this earthly grossness quit,
Attired with stars, we shall for ever sit,
Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee, O Time.
– John Milton
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13th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1537 Lady Jane Grey (Queen of England for only 9 days)
Died:
1945 Milton S Hershey (chocolate tycoon)
On This Day:
1884 Greenwich established as the meridian from which time is measured
Have a good Thursday, 13th October
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