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Tramp Poet Senior Member
since 2000-01-06
Posts 754Could Be Anywhere... 
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Old Letters Crept into grandma's attic amusement from the rain. Exploring in cobwebs of time layers of years obscuring the names. Many songs of love and young bound letters of the same. Searching in an old trunk wiping years from a picture frame. Single swaying bulb, lighting eerie stark shadows dance and scare. Dust hangs lighted around less family skeletons, all are shared. Dust and years hiding my treasure blowing away some frozen time. Gazing into last centuries people all the ancients, family of mine. People and times I never met just stories and laughter I've heard. Here they live, real in photographs alive in written word. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ archival post mid 80's i think... bleeding... "Tis ink coming from his arm, Captain!" |
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allan Senior Member
since 2000-04-09
Posts 620On the road |
Totally great subject for a poem - and you covered all the bases here. I've felt something similar with photos of old ancestors - strange feelings, sadness, wonder, longing, fascination... wishing you could know them, but it's all gone, all those lives lived... lost in time. And we wish...we could go back and meet them, be there... This was what it did to me anyway. Great poem!  |
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childomine Senior Member
since 2000-01-25
Posts 818st. petersburg, FL |
Excellent. Now I want to bring out the boxes and start seeking the treasures that I know are packed away!! |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Daniel~ Such a nostalgic plunder through your mind. Wonderfully portrayed. ~Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ [email protected] |
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JOY 14 Senior Member
since 1999-09-22
Posts 1419Wisconsin USA |
Great poem filled with great lines. Especialy liked..."wiping years from a picture frame" Joy Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles today To-morrow will be dying. -Robert Herrick |
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since 2000-02-04
Posts 2919New York, USA |
Isn't it great to explore in the attic, and bring some of those memories back to life. What a treasure this piece is. Thanks. Bonnie |
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dgvarner Member Elite
since 2000-05-13
Posts 3552High Springs, Florida |
"...wiping years from a picture frame." yes, this was my favorite line too i'll have to ditto what allan sd--sentimental is me  great poem daniel! dg "Half of what i say is meaningless; but i say it so that the other half may reach you." -Kahlil Gibran |
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Alle'cram Senior Member
since 2000-02-28
Posts 1816Texas |
Really liked this one Dan, stirs up my interest in the past. Great job. marcy |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Very nostalgic, Daniel, I love it! Denise |
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Tramp Poet Senior Member
since 2000-01-06
Posts 754Could Be Anywhere... |
Allan, appreciate the input-wanted to capture that attic thang... childomine, yes! that's it exactly! Marge, nostalgic plunder? lol yep almost Viking like, eh? Joy14, glad ya liked the journey! Bonnie, yes! even a virtual attic! dg, thanks-glad the piece moved ya! Marcy, can't ya just feel those cobwebs in Grannies attic? Denise, as always-thank you for your thoughts! love all ya guys!-now give up that beer! bleeding... "Tis ink coming from his arm, Captain!" |
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Yu Lan Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462New Zealand |
Aw, man.. makes me wish i had an attic to search! *pouts*.. hehe.. well, this is a magical picture here!! ^_^ Grr.. Daniel.. you're gonna make me cry, with all this beautiful poetry! *_^ hehe Love, Lynne |
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