Hoping that I am on a roll with Trifecta. I would like to keep it up if I can but so much to do, so little time. And, on the matter of Time and Tide waiting for no woman…

[box title=”The Prompt:” style=”soft” box_color=”#708f7f” radius=”20″]  Katherine Paterson, author of Bridge to Terabithia, wrote, “It’s like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.”  We are looking for a 33-word explanation of what scares you (or your character).

http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/2013/10/trifextra-week-ninety.html

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[dropcap style=”flat”]T[/dropcap]ime with Tide, close kin:

sand runs out,

Time appropriating grain of opportunity, now so elusive

– swept past our grasping hopes.

Things undone:

prospects slipped by,

lost forever in the heaping spoil below.

 

I do not fear growing old but I am scared of dying without achieving my potential. So much to do, so very little time to do it in. If I had more time, I would do a better job of this. 33 words takes far more time and effort than you would think. It’s pretentious rubbish but it does say what I want to say, even if it fails to do it well.

Andrew Marvell had sand in mind when thinking of time too –

 

[quote]        But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.[/quote]

 

Have a great weekend and try to fit into it as much living as you can – it won’t come again.

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The Scattered Thinker is somewhat past her prime, but not yet in any danger of giving up. In the Inter-world, she is often known as plumbum, or sometimes as ulygan. In the Real Life, she goes by the name of Beth. Beth is a roamer. She lives in a motorhome and has a backup static caravan that serves as a bolthole if needed. Bricks and mortar are very much a thing of the past. Contact Beth if you would like to correspond with paper and pen.

14 replies on “Trifextra: Week Ninety – The Hour Glass”

    1. Thank you.

      Could you help me out of my ignorance, please? I know Tempus Fugit, “time flies” well enough but I have not seen your expression before. My Latin is very poor, I failed it at school – I was wondering if Tempest Fliget means something similar, perhaps another tense like “Time is flying” ?

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