Hourglass
This is for the "Grains Of Sand" challenge created by Cendrine Marrouat
This is for the "Grains Of Sand" challenge created by Cendrine Marrouat which you can read about here and gave me an excuse to include one of my favourite Squeeze songs.
I do wish we could use justification in the Vocal editor, but I can't so hence the screenshot of the Google Docs version.
Because it is a visual poem it is also free form, so a series of words pertaining to the prompt.
The theme of this challenge is Grains of sand.
Hourglass
So Many Grains Of Sand
Flow So Slowly
One
By One,
Through,
The
Neck
Of
The
Hourglass
Counting Every
Second As The
Sands Of Time
Flow Marking
Forever
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Comments (11)
This is some great ingenuity; props to you for making it work!
Despite Vocal's limits, Mike, you got the job done! I see the hourglass even in the unjustified version. :)
Beautiful piece. I especially enjoyed the ending
I totally share your frustration with the lack of justification on Vocal's platform - but do love how even printed, the poem looks like half an hourglass! Great job.
Oh this was so beautiful, both poetically and visually!
Challenge nicely met, Mike.
Love this!!! ❤️❤️💕 Was thinking of hour glass too!!!
Mike, you did a stellar job with the challenge! This is fantastic!
Poured very excellently into its mold! Lots of beautiful wistful sentiment too. Great job.
This is great Mike.
This is beautiful ❤️