Memory Choka Poems

   Dusty elegance
   the grandfather clock has failed
   hypnotic and slow
   Where did the time go?
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What we truly know,
is that we are here, alive,
although stuporous
as yet is our awareness,
hemmed in by senses
and interpreted by mind,
which relies upon
feeble memory recall.
To make...

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I still remember
when I was a little girl
mom and dad loving picnics
we liked this one place
with lots of old shady trees
and a wooden water...

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Time is fast or slow
              A fine ticking illusion
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Garden flowers sleep
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In a brown study 
     he's tethered to memories 
      sweet and strikingly vivid.

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lone can of cat food
sits on the porch railing now
no one dares move it
grandma put it there you see
we pass it daily
remembering her sweet smile
each...

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The inviting sea
 Beckons him to reminisce
Fondly of the good ol' days

   What great fun he had!
   As a career fisherman
He...

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Haunted Old Ocean;
Specters swim throughout the sea;
For many a good ship has,
Met its final doom;
Within the tempestuous,
Waters and cannot move on.
On stormy nights you 
May...

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More years passing by;
Seen beginnings and endings
that have marked and scarred
correct and incorrect things...
Some blind promises,
carelessly wishing to be
granted, all blind thoughts
thinking they could get...

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from the death of days
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Your memory is
like an expired polaroid 
film - I still keep it 

as though it would be
the most precious treasure of
mine, yet I am

aware of...

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Where have the years gone-
like soft feathers, they soon fly,
floating in the breeze of life,
fragile, wispy thoughts
to gather in, one by one;
to stroke each with...

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In recollections-
of my life's journey, thus far
the tattered pages flutter
     in my mind, snapshots  . . .
black and white and...

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While I clung on the 
memory of yours, while I 
waited for your noise 

to make I was stopped 
by the motionless on the 
Grosse...

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