Time Passes like Music

September 25, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is fate.

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A philosophical number poem which compares free choice and fate to creating a melody against a given harmony:

Time passes like music, a tangle of voices
Harmonious, dissonant, yearning, resolved.
In turn it is passionate, calm, poignant, tearful,
Rhapsodic, despondent, a tumultuous earful,
The score of which leaves one with chances and choices,
Yet gives form and function to all those involved.
Sing, then, with love, as harmony dictates
Each note in a melody wholly your own.
Voices find freedom in shaping their own fates,
Even as each would sound poorly alone,
Needing the chords to make sense of each tone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/timepa.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Fate
September 21: Maybe There Is Solace in the Sunshine
September 22: Forty-Five Walks Along the Shore
September 23: The Wind the River Roils Well
September 24: Destinée Finds Destiny Appealing
September 25: Time Passes like Music