Sorting out letters and piles of my old
Canceled checks, old clippings, and yellow note cards
That meant something once, I happened to find
Your picture. That picture. I stopped there cold,
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Superb and harrowing poem- - every word the perfect choice, every image burned into the reader's mind. Favorite Poem List.
A trip down the memory lane and revisiting moments of joy, anguish etc.
Whatever happened subsequently, how could one forget the events and incidents they were connected with while they were in love, long past though. Let the mementos speak. Please find them. Thanks for sharing the hearty poem.
The author utilizes the small details of everyday living to form the viscerally striking collage of the deepest experiences of life- love, pain, loss, regret. It is the casual, easy manner of speech and the use of these simple details which he expertly contrasts with the vast depth of the human experience that produce the arresting power of this piece. Marvelously executed.
our lives are made of mixed memories, this is a very powerful poem remembering some?
The waves of horror and revulsion, of, oh I don't want to say sentimental nostalgia, something deeper, more meaningful than that. The tenderness before the relationship is overturned in a deluge of bitter memories. The memories, the memories before those memories, and the memories waiting still somewhere down the road. The memories are who we are as humans. To lose them is to lose ourselves. This poem is a brief concert of memories and emotions, with key lilting phrases that build and support, submerge and change. A barb driven deep, a scar that one touches shuddering with a fond rememberance of who we are.
One another's force! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
Well-written poem+++++++++++++ Thanks for sharing++++++++++
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