Best Album Poems

Every image and text we post on Facebook
is selected and air-brushed,
to present our lives as we would like it to be,
sharing images for self congratulation and gloating.

We are both the viewer and the viewed, 
the audience and the actor
mutually disclosing tarnished, 
filtered and selected images...

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Those
childish
yesterdays-
in sepia
dust...

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I keep an old photo album 
on my bottom shelf. 
I get it out every once in a while, 
just to sift the time away 

I keep a lot of pictures 
There inside that book. Some are old and a little 
Yellow now, but still...

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Rhyme  Quatrain



Telling tales or stories is a favourable pasttime;
But using pictures to tell stories of past and present,
Yours remind me of days not so recent,
And ones of grateful recline
To golden years so sublime.

Mother, telling your picture stories is an action dramatized,
In a form that's...

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As a great lover of classical music
over many years the violin became ace
one particular lovely lady enchanted me
Anne-Sophie Mutter classically first place

This lady appeared in the Yellow Lounge
a night club in Berlin, she did astound
the Club Album played out such true class
covering composers splendidly crowned

Classical...

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TIME  WAS peaceful farmers were  happy to reap their corn.
I am a farmers son, it's not my idea of living, not since the time I was born.
I had a girl, my heart was broken when  I awoke to find
my girl was in...

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collated pictures
gloss enamels folio
binder segments years
time embosses memories
as dust cloaks each weathered fold...

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photos in album 
                                         ...

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Gray and abysmal are her days
Each moment a faded dark haze
Consumed in her fairy tale dream
Her prince never came it would seem 
Venturing she thought it were fate
A new destination, clean slate

Then within a breath of meeting
And an awkward funny greeting
She was cast under a...

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Last night I took apart the album I made for you
the one of our family before they left
before the sorrow clung to your every breath.

I separated each memory from their plastic sheath
and piled them in categories known and before me.
Military and quick I added the...

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old photographs
lifetime
thrift store...

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In the olden days 
My mother only took one photo for me
As a new born with the family members
My childhood gone plain without photos
When I got my 1st salary 
I bought a camera
To take photos wherever I go
With my family
Schoolmates
Friends 
Colleagues
Now When I open the...

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I’ve been a pirate on black seas,
Explorer where the oceans freeze,
A monarch on an opaled throne,
An islander with rings of bone—
Inside the “British Colonies” thick section
Of my boyhood stamp collection....

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And here you are
on the end of a smile
that doesn't seem to fit
your face, caught
in the startle of a flash,
still and ageless
after all these years.

I wonder what thoughts
were in your mind 
when the shutter clicked
to hold you there, 
a wafer of who you were
back then,...

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dry tree branch sways 
   autumn leaf clings
               the last
leaf through photo album 
   memories of friend persist...

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