Sensing Our Ways Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

TIME is one of our key subjects as lyric poets and your recent poem is a concise and pithy overview of our confrontation. You cities five activities by which we deal, namely, sensing, groping, hoarding, scuffling, hoarding and pondering. Hoarding won't work and groping sounds desperate. But pondering - which is what your poem does - affirms our dignity as thinking animals who can mentally transcend that sardonic smile. As Andrew Marvell advised LET US OUR TIME DEVOUR, THAN LANGUISH IN HIS POWER. We triumph!

Bruno Schulz coveted time. He said time shared was time wasted, he was like a jealous lover with time. Yes, we trim time, we crop it closely (like a beard) and think that it will behave! well it never will. You have put it succinctly.

Ha! Love this poem! Beautiful ending! ! ! ! !