Time Flies and Devours All Things (tempus fugit et edax rerum)



Life-spans measured for distance is defrauding quality.
Significant existence
justifies true jollity.
Making moments matter most maturates materially
meaningful machination, modifying modestly.
Intervals between events
of doom and parturition
speed inconsequential need
like empty acquisition.
Making moments matter most maturates materially
meaningful machination, modifying modestly.
Fashioning an epitaph
for ancestral legacy
stipulates contributions
that evidence cogency.
Making moments matter most maturates materially
meaningful machination, modifying modestly.
Time flies and devours all
is forthright admonition.
Brevity counted in years is the final rendition.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme abaAAcdedAAfagaAAhdd
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 651
Words 82
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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