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For Long-gone Days

"Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."- Robert Frost

For long-gone days of my youth I lament.
Decades of gold – how quickly they were spent!
And now the autumn’s chill has taken hold.
The grip it has on me can’t be controlled.

Florescent spring, when sunshine kissed my face -
oh, the many dreams I used to embrace.
Innocent was I, thinking I knew of truth
in that sweet, fresh blossoming of my youth.

Joyous moments I collected have blurred;
their melody rallentando I’ve heard.
A rose on fall’s hedge, I will wilt away,
joining lost loved ones some glorious day.

Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2024

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Constance La France Date: 8/7/2024 1:25:00 PM Andrea, congratulations on your win in my contest with this terrific elegy poem, I liked it a lot, well done, love the quote too, Constance Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 8/7/2024 4:34:00 PM Thanks so much. Love how you inspired this poem and others I wrote for your contests

Duke Beaufort Date: 7/26/2024 5:10:00 AM Andrea, wise you are to confront this subject. It's difficult for many to contemplate what happens to us. It seemed so far away years ago, but not any more. Every time has its excitements and challenges. I find it a pleasure to watch and deal with, and I just hope to be comfortable and with it till the end. We also have a responsibility to leave our world habitable and sound for future generations. I'm less confident of that. Login to Reply

Crystol Woods Date: 7/25/2024 8:18:00 AM A truth in afraid we all face at some point although to grow older is to grow wiser. I remember how much respect our elders were shown when I was young. It seems that is also gone to the past. Leviticus 19:32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD Proverbs 16:31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. Xoxo Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 7/25/2024 2:24:00 PM Sadly the modern times do not honor the old and infirm like they used to. Even though I feel wiser, I do not like some of the new and weird stuff that has happened to me!

Christuraj Alex Date: 7/23/2024 5:47:00 PM "now the autumn’s chill has taken hold", "A rose on fall’s hedge, I will wilt away, joining lost loved ones some glorious day." - Filled with pleasant nostalgia and hope. Congratulations! Login to Reply

Joseph May Date: 7/23/2024 10:37:00 AM A melancholy reflection on youthful days, Very nicely penned Andrea, Congrats on your win Login to Reply

Paula Goldsmith Date: 7/23/2024 9:35:00 AM Congratulations on your win. I enjoyed reading your wonderful write. Have a wonderful day writing away................ Login to Reply

Kim Rodrigues Date: 7/23/2024 4:22:00 AM “their melody rallentando I’ve heard“ - what a brilliant line, Andrea! I understand the lament. I miss sitting around with grandparents, some Aunts, Uncles, cousins, etc.. We wait for our turn to join them, not wanting to hurry that but still missing them so much. I miss my mom especially. Hugs and Congrats, dear one! Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 7/25/2024 3:07:00 PM Thanks for what you said, Kim

Crystol Woods Date: 7/22/2024 5:46:00 PM Andrea! I love this! It is sad but tenderly beautiful... like a young girl. I'm so happy you've won first place! Xoxo Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 7/25/2024 3:07:00 PM Thanks. I enjoyed this type of contest

Paige Hind Date: 7/19/2024 1:32:00 PM A great quote, for a beautiful poem- Login to Reply

Subimal Sinha-Roy Date: 7/18/2024 11:39:00 PM A great nostalgic and lamenting write on the lost time. The last line is superb. Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 7/25/2024 3:08:00 PM Thanks so much, Subimal. It's a shame I can't reply to your poems or send you a soupmail

Jay Narain Date: 7/18/2024 10:39:00 AM nice elgy. Beautiful. Login to Reply

Joanna Daniel Date: 7/18/2024 6:36:00 AM Wow! If this is an elegy, I want to write one too, simply astounding work, Andrea:) Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 7/18/2024 12:56:00 PM yes, it is. Go for it, Joanna

Ink Empress Date: 7/18/2024 3:15:00 AM Wow this is brilliant and the cadence of your lines truly is captivating and soulfully moving. Do we need to rhyme in elegies? I think iv read two rhymed. I cant rhyme with a migraine haha. You did amazing! “ oh, the many dreams I used to embrace. Innocent was I, thinking I knew of truth” love how youv phrased that!! This is impeccable! Im sure a top winner too! Best wishes Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 7/18/2024 12:57:00 PM thanks, ink, I really enjoyed working on this. I get my most pleasure coming up with lines for classic rhyming forms of poetry.

Joe Dimino Date: 7/17/2024 11:09:00 PM Yes, the inevitable. I try not to focus on such things, but the aches and pains, and lack of energy is a stinker. I hear you. Well said. Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 7/18/2024 12:58:00 PM For me, it's the strange things that happened to me after an oncologist prescribed prolia for my bones. My energy is good but I am now always miserable due to the very rare effects Prolia gave me. 8 years and still won't go away.

Tonye George Date: 7/17/2024 9:23:00 PM Lovely piece dear Andrea. we all have to go through this very cycle of life and growth. It comes so fast and wished we had more time. That is why it is important to live life and create good memories. It is the memories that would keep us and make us feel okay. When we look at them, we remember our happiness and how we did try to live life to its fullness. It shows us how much we have grown. Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 7/18/2024 12:58:00 PM You are so right!

Sara Kendrick Date: 7/17/2024 1:43:00 PM Reads like a good contender to me for Constance's contest. Way to go. How fast youth is spent, those middle years how they went, then came old age and slowly it flows, but how each day we quietly hold. Thanks for sharing your talent with us and for dropping by my page. Sara K Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 7/18/2024 12:59:00 PM yep, that's life! thanks, Sara

Tom Woody Date: 7/17/2024 1:21:00 PM Nice take on the theme. Were we youth once? Can't remember anymore Login to Reply Tom Woody Date: 7/18/2024 1:13:00 PM Ugh! Andrea Dietrich Date: 7/18/2024 1:00:00 PM I remember but it's so strange to think of things in the past and then realize, hmmm, if I remember so well how quickly I got from age 5 to 68, that means my last years are gonna come three times faster!