Today's word is "quinquennium" ... kwin-KWEN-ee-uh m ... a period of five years. (Dictionary.com.)
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The years pass ...
one quinquennium upon another.
To amass the total of a life.
But we barely notice,
until they've gone, then,
looking back, it seems
a flash we scarcely recognize.
All the bithdays and Christmases,
summers and falls, children grown and growing,
meals and working days and vacations,
merged into a glance.
How do we weigh that weightless sum?
Some say the counterweight is grace.
Anne Selleck
Copyright 2016
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