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Open Poetry #49

Small, The By-products

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2014-07-29 08:39 PM

Small, The By-products

Photographs . . .
of one type or another –
scanning, one by one,
digitally preserving

History, Time, Lives in passage -

all representative of the photographer
who recorded for posterity
and yet,

it’s the photographer who’s gone.

Small, the by-products of his life,
large his legacy,
his place in memory;
but, oh, I’d burn it all
to look my father

in the eyes again.

© wesley james beard, jr.

Was sitting here scanning my father-in-laws decades
of family photos (mostly slides) and thought of this piece I'd posted a number of years ago (in a different format) - and my soul said post it again (naughty soul!!)

Michael

Moderator

Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

1 posted 2014-07-29 08:48 PM

I have too often been amazed at the things that so define a person we only come to see once they have passed on. I have shared in that peculiar grief, my friend.

Michael

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2014-07-29 09:45 PM

what a special perspective of your father to have. What a special way to preserve it and honor it. What a special son.

Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

3 posted 2014-07-30 07:23 AM

Sometimes it is imperative to listen to our soul, Jimmy. Good poetry.

~*~ Tell the truth, but tell it slant.--Emily Dickimsom ~*~

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2014-07-30 03:59 PM

I know what you mean, Jimmy. Excellent!
Ida

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

5 posted 2014-08-05 12:16 PM

Heartfelt words...
Beautiful sentiment.

Nice write, my friend.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

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