Best Albums Poems

I saw those men in solemn chain trooping from the line
hand on shoulder, link to link their bandaged eyes gas blind.
The image burned upon my soul, and tied me to their chain
A scene imbued with haunting light, my retina retains.

The pock marked fields of battered...

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families collect

time-stamped smiles of memories

proof of happy times

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Written 1-28-2016...

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Old photo albums give a glimpse
Of how we used to look.
We try to gauge our happiness
From pictures that we took.

Some snapshots catch us laughing,
Maybe in a silly pose,
Or with clothes and hair so retro
We’re surprised that’s what we chose.

There’s a sadness, too, in pages
Where the...

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One of my Favourite Albums

One of my favourite albums and I’m sure it’s not just me,
Is Hunky Dory by David Bowie,
Because no other album sounds the same,
Except for Ziggy Stardust but not Aladdin Sane,
Nothing sounds better than Bowies guitars,
I know it would be nothing without...

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The pictures of yesterday
tell a truth we've forgotten,
with our every instant 
recorded and filtered, 
rehearsed and scripted. 

Our parent's snapshots,
though some black and white, 
imperfect and tattered
from so many witnesses, 
are frozen moments in time. 

We will never be as honest again....

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In photo albums of the past,
The pictures stayed in place
With little stick-on corners
That today you can’t replace.

The albums after that had pages
That you had to lift;
The photos rested under plastic,
‘Til they’d start to shift.

I have a bunch of those, with pages
Turning brown or loose.
Instead of...

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Electronic books of your face and form
taken with a new camera.

The eyes that see it are older now.
You, all of you, digitally sewn together,
pixilated into our history.

Long bygone visions
of your once and before images
caught in thin scraps of time
and clipped from much longer threads;

Something else,

a...

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