About time


Here are some words telling about time.
It’s about time this story was laid into rhyme.
About a time when life was not so precise.
About time simple folk enjoyed paradise.

The dial now says the time is about quarter to eleven,
About reading time off shadows cast by a sun lit heaven.
These medieval times were all about to change,
Navigators set the time to explore about their unchartered range.

Many of us wish we could turn time about,
But the laws about time are not so easy to flout.
Time moves about in a singular direction,
One way to travel about time’s fourth dimension.

How many times about climate change have we been warned?
Now time’s about the environmental disaster we have spawned.
We are living on borrowed time about which we’ve lost control,
About time we accepted our generation’s legacy role.

Read in The Times about daily news,
About time honoured features and editorial views.
This traveller in time is now about to go,
Just ask your watch if about time you wish more to know.

— Philip Wood

15th C, Clock Tower, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy.