On the third day of Laura Shovan’s February 10th Annual February Poetry Project, which is centered around the theme of time, the prompt was a photo of the massive carved stone calendar of the Aztecs. Coincidentally, I have a souvenir version of that calendar sitting on the hallway shelf beside an old Seth Thomas chiming clock. Here’s the poem I wrote.
Linda has this week’s Valentine Edition of the Poetry Friday roundup at TeacherDance.
A(nother) Year of Reading 
I love that your poem today is so ‘timely’, Mary Lee. š
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I love seeing the two time pieces together and also like the way you introduced the poem with personal time – both parents are long gone. Time gives us lots to think about.
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As they say, time is relative. We mark it as we choose . . .
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I did love this poem, a backstory to your picture, Mary Lee. Love the smile at the end. I remember it being so important to wind those clocks “just right”.
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that line, “neither is particularly accurate” makes me smile. Accuracy doesn’t matter as much as the memory and connection. That’s what I take from this poem.
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Mary Lee, I, too, love your ending line in the above poem. I imagine the calendar and clock provide you will many sweet memories.
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Your poemās last line goes well with Einsteinās quote, ātime is relativeā and perhaps the objects allow a memory-time continuumā¦ Thanks.
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So good. I love how all those disparate elements become personal in your poem. Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
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“Neither is particularly accurate” — the voice of the poem, ending in this one line… such resignation and dismissal of this Time-thing that dares to control us. Thank you!
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This small poem packs a lot into it, the memory of your parents and the longing that comes with time.
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This makes me think of two things: the challenge of wanting to go back in time, to relive or redo the past and would we want to? AND this museum I know about and play to visit this summer. I hear it is noisy for sure in there. We have several old clocks from my husband’s antique collecting grand and gr grandmothers. They are lovely. https://www.hoffmanclockmuseum.org/1/index.htm? If you ever head to Vermont this would be somewhat convenient to visit!!
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