Old and New

The typewritter the empty page.
Time has forgotten you.
As we worship the talentless  in a foreign age.

Cheap ****  and a old lush.
Poddle skirts and a highschool crush.

Wornout jeans and a no longer spoke about bands patch.
Sneaking out the window .
Unlocking that old gates latch.

Forbidden lovers and young hearts loving thta first feeling
so very true.
The stars are a midnight canvas.
Rain and beauty reflect the same to old and new.

Coins in a wishing well thrown by a lost 
young teenage girl.
Sweet agony and diary pages.
Red lipstick andher hairs natrule curl.

the scent of innocence  and regret fill's the air.
Bitter souls loath the foolish
young  who reach for a place where only dreamers dare.

Like a mustang down a empty backroad through this life we 
blew.
So many feelings it leaves you numb.
As the guard must change from old to new.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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Kendrick Avatar
September 24, 2009 at 4:19 AM
I like the line "Like a mustang down a empty backroad through this life we blew". Nicely done write. Keep writing. Sara
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September 12, 2009 at 8:49 AM
You have Soup Mail, John!
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September 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM
The scent of innocence... feelings of numbness.regrets fillin the air..life is a roller coaster of old and new..past times flushed away to open for new horizons...your writes my pleasure--Charma
Devonshire Avatar
September 10, 2009 at 7:56 PM
What an interesting and moving commentary on the passage of time, generations replacing generations. Sometimes it seems to me there is some "romance" lost among today's teens, where eroticism reigns instead. I for one love staring at the stars and planning for the future on a "midnight canvas." Beautiful write, John! Love, Carolyn
Brown Avatar
September 9, 2009 at 5:43 AM
Thank you for sharing your fasinating poetry with us today John. I wish you the best in your writing endeavors. Love, Carol
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