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icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2007-10-12 03:44 PM

Is it uncommon to crave the past
the way things were
sometimes?

I think
it is a human thing to yearn
for sights,
sounds,
feelings,
once familiar
once real,
once so easily in reach,
gone now
vanished,
polluting newborn air
with shards of shattered used to be.

I want simplicity
the things of thought defined
cut clearly for me to see
without the need for questions.

A road sign in fluorescent green,
an insect trapped in amber
a cat's eye in polished stone
smoke signals on a clear horizon,
yet even the past isn't what it used to be,
if sober memory serves me right.

Funny,
how memory paints in pretty strokes,
when reality leaves regret as aftertaste.

©2007 by icebox

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Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2007-10-12 06:13 PM

quote:
A road sign in fluorescent green,
an insect trapped in amber
a cat's eye in polished stone
smoke signals on a clear horizon,
yet even the past isn't what it used to be,
if sober memory serves me right.

When we go back we see things differently than they were, the context is different, our eyes capture things differently, but it still feels good every now and then to dive into the past.
But NOW is still the best time to live in, because we can create our life, mold it, change it, while the past is in a certain sense untouchable.
Wonderful write, as usual.
Love,
Margherita

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

2 posted 2007-10-12 07:12 PM

I am particularly fond of the ending:

"memory paints in pretty strokes,
when reality leaves regret as aftertaste."

AMEN to that!!

and, I would dearly love a few things 'clearly
"defined...without the need for questions(!)'

ALSO most fine:

"an insect trapped in amber
a cat's eye in polished stone
smoke signals on a clear horizon"

serious, sustained applause for this 'write'!

SmartChick
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-09-23

Posts 7081
On A Journey To The Unknown

3 posted 2007-10-12 07:55 PM

Nothing is what it use to be. And, even if we could go back to the past, it wouldn't be the same.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2007-10-13 10:57 PM

Thoughtful and eloquent but you know what that songs says "You never can go home again" and it's so true.
Ida

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

5 posted 2007-10-14 03:57 AM

"how memory paints in pretty strokes,
when reality leaves regret as aftertaste."

Yes, a thoughtful write, icebox, and the above is so true but, you know, it's only the learning process that brings in regret and we have to go through that - hmm? maybe to just repeat the same things in a next lifetime. I'd like to hope not but who really knows.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2007-10-14 04:57 AM

On the one hand, ditto, although I could never had said it so eloquently, but on the other hand, it is the nows that make the yesterdays. Beautiful poem, Icebox.

- Owl

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