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pegasus111
Member Elite

since 2000-07-27

Posts 2219
ocala, fl, usa

0 posted 2002-07-20 10:19 AM

Do you hear the music of the past
are the words familiar to your ear
do you still sigh on every note
is it the song you want to hear

or are the notes discordant things
the scales offensive to the soul
mindless blasts that play off key
painful images you can’t control

this music of the days now gone
reverberates in ghostly beat
of love and pain and anger too
of sweet victory and sour defeat

the songs I play seem shorter now
soft whispers in the fading light
dull empty things no one can hear
compared to those I used to write

I feel a great sadness coming on
perhaps the final song is near
will future bards remember them
these special songs that I held dear

Or will they fade as most songs do
forgotten by the humanity to be
lost in soundless space and time
precious then only to me.

the woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and many miles to go before I sleep...Frost

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2002-07-20 10:33 AM

Smiling here...
...thank you!

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

2 posted 2002-07-20 06:31 PM

pegasus111: Somewhere, someone is remembering the same songs you are! Lovely nostaligic poem.

2dalimit
Member Elite

since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

3 posted 2002-07-21 09:02 AM

Good one. I feel the same way.

Thanks,
Melton

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

4 posted 2002-07-22 05:49 PM

Words are never lost. they reverberate forever. That is why we must write of lovely things. I enjoyed this one. Joyce

laryalee2
Member

since 2002-05-22

Posts 96
British Columbia, Canada

5 posted 2002-07-25 11:38 PM

Pegasus, this brings a tear to my eye...
I guess I've heard too many sad songs...
and also wonder when the final note will come.
But some songs will live on -- won't they?
This is poignantly beautiful, my friend.
Lary

wordancer
Senior Member

since 2000-07-30

Posts 809
VA

6 posted 2002-07-26 03:47 PM

quote:
Or will they fade as most songs do
forgotten by the humanity to be
lost in soundless space and time
precious then only to me.[

…as the ages come and go, and our words disappear from the memory of those that heard them—we have to remember that they served a purpose at their inception. These words we scribe, help define our worlds as we see them to ourselves and perhaps to those who were close to us.

As they fade in the wind of memories…

Um…I lost my train of thought…though perhaps you know where I was going … smiling

I really, really love the feel and cadence of this, my friend.

Moon Dust

Member Elite

since 1999-06-11

Posts 2177
Skelmersdale, UK

7 posted 2002-07-27 10:11 AM

Very nice I like this it kind of reminds me of my old fave tunes kwel

If your afraid of the dark, then why did you come?

Romy
Senior Member

since 2000-05-28

Posts 1170
Plantation, Florida

8 posted 2002-08-25 09:48 AM

I still dance to the music of the past, but with one ear listening to the music of today. Someday the new music we make will become wonderful memories too.

Lovely, lovely poem!

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