Time, time to ... -- another Poem for Tuesday

 

 

Time, Three Ladies in a ...

 

Rub dub, Dub Dub Dub, Three Ladies Lying

Lying in the bed, with all their clothes on

Perhaps their shoes are under the bed, eh?

 

One is recovering from surgery

Bunion surgery of all ails, fitting

Fitting the lifestyles for which she has lived

 

Would you know which one, which lady

Only one for this time, her time for sure

Time for everything, Toe restoration

 

Three generations, grandmother, daughter

With the granddaughter stuck in the middle

Daughter had those crutches ready, her time

 

'Nuf said about that, what have they done there

Didn't eat a meal, nor sing any songs

No jumping on the bed, one's not ready

 

They read books, talked, two watched "The Price is Right"

Then I came along, they posed for pictures

It was their time, who is there to complain

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Photo and Poem Copyright, 2018 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

 - I'm linked with Sanaa Rizvi at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, The Tuesday Platform,  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-tuesday-platform_27.html bub

 - And on November I, 2022  posted for Friday Writings # 51 with Rosemary's new Prompt, the word "Three", at  

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/11/friday-writings-51-power-of-three.html?sc=1667551483051&m=1#c3021485893940583124

 - Sanaa introduced us to T.S. Eliot's final long poem collection, of four poems called "Four Quartets".  He was seeing some dismal times and times for hope, much of it during the earlier days of WWII.  I plan to read it.

 _ King Solomon of old, Old Testament Bible times, wrote his dismal outlook poem, Ecclesiastes, which became a Book of the Christian Bible.  Chapter three is about time, I liked "a time for living, a time for dying" probably best: (link)

 "¹ To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

² A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; ...
^{... 11} He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
¹² I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life."
 - The Byrds, in Turn, Turn, Turn, also wrote a song about time (the lyrics), much of it is a quote from Ecclesiastes 3.  You will recognize it:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4 

 

 - Now I plan to go hide, read my T.S, Eliot book, Practical Cats, a collection of his Cat Poems.  And soon also I will watch a video of the Musical, "Cats" which uses many of the poems from this book.  I might even read some Eliot's book, "Four Quartets", read Ecclesiastes 3, and listen over and over to this Byrds' song.  Oh yes and read other writing from the links posted on the Imaginary Garden today.  Thank You Sanaa.