Eight-line Poems

Father Time

Father Time

Father Time,
dreaming in his subterranean cavern,*
stretches an arm
through the blanket earth,
up, up to the world above.
His fingers close on an aged tree,
plucks it like a grape.
He dreams of harvest.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 09.24 21
Prompt: Photo of fingers around a tree.
* In one of the Narnian books, the adventurers pass through a cavern in which sleeps the giant Father Time until the end of the world.