Picture Credit: Google images ( for illustration purposes, not the one I saw)
(Apologies! Please disregard #118 as it did'nt register)
Chimes of Old
Likeness of Big Ben
An element so sublime
Faithfully on time
Sharp eyes eagle like
Surveying the ambience
Soldierly upright
Announcing itself
Menacingly visible
Breaking the silence
A chime sounded loud
Regal like and standing tall
The grandfather’s clock
Note: I saw an 'ancient' grandfather's clock standing alone in an antique shop last weekend that inspired me. Since there's no prompt and Friday the 13th gets me stumped, I'll just settle for the 'ancient gentleman'
Submitted for d'Verse at Open Link Night week 13
I love how inspirations strikes us! I love old clocks the chimes are amazing~ Fun to read and reminded me of my grandparents and their clock!
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As the page opened I initially read "Crimes of Old". "Chimes" is much better and your poem chimes beautifully and very musically. Well done.
ReplyDeleteI do like the chimes of the old...Very nice haiku set ~
ReplyDeleteI like the ''likeness'' to Big Ben, here. True.
ReplyDeleteAren't these machines, these pieces of art, these miraculous entities just wonderful?
you poem depicts the 'Grandfather Clock in the Room,' all right.
One Cannot ignore it.
nice poems. thanks.
I like the chimes of the old , lovely.
ReplyDeleteTheses clocks are great, my grandmother has one too, truly can be inspirational just to look at.
ReplyDeletesmiles. my grandfather actually had one used to enjoy going to his house as its gentle rhythm added the perfect back ground...
ReplyDeletei can still remember my grandfather's grandather clock. as we are not allowed to touch it. but we adore it. so gorgeous timepiece...
ReplyDeletei love this post Pareng Hank!
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This clock has a presence, and time is always with us--maybe it will strike 13 in a dream, Hank. ;_) Love the 'eagle like'-'regal like' play.
ReplyDeleteWonderful haiku about a beautiful style of clock that (I hope) will never go out of style completely.
ReplyDeleteWe had a chiming mantel clock when I was a child, and the sound was so reassuring.
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soldiery upright - I like that. I love grandfather clocks - they are definitely regal-like.
ReplyDeleteExcellent job painting the essence of the Grandfather Clock. Your words have a natural tonal flow that really works well here. Thanks for the read
ReplyDeleteI really love such clocks.. but unfortunately.. I dont have one :(
ReplyDeleteLovely Hank , I like old clocks.
ReplyDeleteYvonne.
this is excellent to see a clock and be inspired to write this lovely wonderful poem
ReplyDeletehttp://gatelesspassage.com/2011/10/11/the-day-of-the-dead/#comment-1682
Grandfather clocks are inspiring! I still remember the first one I ever saw, at age 5 or 6.... I thought it was the most beautifully crafted thing I had ever seen..... that huge pendulum swinging, the ticking, the chimes...... my true introduction to civilization... I know exactly how you felt when you saw it! Incidentally, the link from dverse didn't work...
ReplyDeletewow.. old things and old people always inspire..
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