....What is Time (from a fairy garden)

What is time
but a way
to define
what might be

Free choice in every twitch
and every twine

Free choice in where to hid
and what to watch

Where to turn ones head
or open one's heart

Free choice in perceiving gold
in yellow flowers

and a wealth of possibility
in every shape
twinkling

every pattern plotting
a celestial course
as heaven comes down in the everyday

and we drink the rain
in a cucumber
drink the cloud shapes dreamed last week
as heaven comes down in the everyday

poem & picture copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab
The Fairy Garden Poems # 14