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Tim
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since 1999-06-08

Posts 1794

0 posted 2012-01-06 11:28 PM

when he was a boy
he played a clarinet
but then he grew up
and the music faded
just as memories fade of childhoods past
then he turned off the radio
and the music returned
no frenzied beats or pulsating rhythms
just simple songs played on a battered buffet
which rekindled memories of a childhood past
when he was a boy
when he played a clarinet

Klassy Lassy
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since 2005-06-28

Posts 2187
Oregon

1 posted 2012-01-07 12:22 PM

hmmmm. I have memories a little like the recant in your poem. I took piano lessons when I was eight. I can still play one of the pieces I learned so long ago, and the tempo checked by a stern teacher and a metronome. When I had to perform it for a recital, I forgot how it even began, totally froze!

I like the reverse in your poem. It is what we do in retracing steps in memory.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2012-01-07 06:26 AM

Ah, yes, I was the proud owner of a Fender double-neck steel guitar in my youth. Yes, the music faded.

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tracie66
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since 2000-01-18

Posts 4713
Australia

3 posted 2012-01-07 07:38 AM

gorgeous reminiscence

Love is the life of the soul...
It is the harmony of the universe
— W. E. Channing

Nan

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since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

4 posted 2012-01-07 08:27 AM

It's surprising how those forgotten times can be rekindled so easily. Nicely done, Tim..

Word Weaver
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since 2011-03-06

Posts 437
California, USA

5 posted 2012-01-07 01:41 PM

Wonderful is the word that describes this great poem.

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2012-01-08 05:49 AM

I am always happy to see that you have posted a poem. Tim. I am never disappointed.
Ida

Nicole
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since 1999-06-23

Posts 1835
Florida

7 posted 2012-01-08 09:04 AM

One of my daughters plays the clarinet (I played the flute)... this year for Christmas, she received the music of Queen and Star Wars.

/grinning

I hope her memories live on, like the ones in your poem. Sometimes they seem forgotten...but they never really are.

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