Daylight Saving steals an hour, but where does it go? This poem wonders aloud, with a wink and a sigh, as time slips overboard. Paired with Tame Impala’s hypnotic rhythm, it’s a meditation on the absurdity of lost time.
“Man Overboard!”
Time vanished overboard,
and was last seen going forward.
Who will rescue the lost hour?
Who has the righteous power,
inside the clock’s stoic tower?
Somehow it doesn’t matter
that no one heard the clatter.
Time has no protective hands.
Time is not a rubber band,
nor a loose grain of sand.
I do not understand
how time’s forgotten hour was banned
and stored away in never-never-land.
Ivor Steven © October 2025
Ivor.Plumber/Poet 
Thank you, Ivor, for your always brilliant poetry.
“Time has no protective hands…” What a deep insight! Kudos.
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Thank for reading my poems, Suzette 📖📘😊🌏😍
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You are welcome, Ivor. Cheers.
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Nice poem, Ivor.
I certainly feel that Standard Time is the better choice of the two.
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I’m not sure , by the time I get used to the change, it’s nearly time to change back!!
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An outdated system I feel.
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I think so too, Sadje … so it’s not just me growing old grumpy 😊🌏
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In 5 years that I was in America, I found this custom very strange and useless
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I agree, Sadje
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Great poem, dear Ivor, and I am in agreement with Sadje; it is an outdated system.
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Thank you… it’s nice to that it’s not me, but it’s the system that is outdated , Nancy 😊😍🌏📖
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Ha ha ha … good point, dear Ivor, although many days I do feel rather outdated! 😂🌅🌏🌝🥰
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We may be outdated but we are not unstated nor too antiquated
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Hear hear!
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What a cheery, whimsical poem, Ivor! To be fair, you must balance this with a poem about “Hour Rescued!” when the time changes again! ⏰ ⌚️🕰️ ⏱️
By the way, a sundial changes itself! 😂 🌞 🌍
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Ahh, the good old reliable sundial, Cheryl, thank you for your lovely words 🌏😍💕🕰
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How interesting! Spring forward in Geelong!
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I’m slow off the spring board, Dwight
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:>)
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time is so hard to pin down, impossible really
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I say, “Let time chime its own rhyme”
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that’s the, mirage of time, we spring forward an hour when daylight savings begin, and we get to, “gain” that hour “back” in the fall, as we spring backward in the, autumn, when in reality, it cancels each other out, but, that’s how we’re all tricked by our own, minds…
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Yes my mind gets tricked and confused
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Yes! I agree with your poem! I’ve never understood the need for Daylight Savings Time. 😕
And it’s nice these days to have a phone that keeps track of the exact times for me…so I don’t have to do the math in my head (3+hours now, or is it 4? Ha!) about what time it is in other cities/countries where I have family and friends. 🙂
(((HUGS))) ❤️⏳⌚⏰❤️
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Yes, it’s hard enough keeping track of Internation time zones, without throwing in Daylight Time as well, Carolyn … 🕰🌏😍🌝🐶
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Maybe it is time it was abandoned
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