Nostalgia Picture Poems

What is? 
Fortitude. 
Let that sink in for a while. 
Missed the mark. Damn names, 
who's falling behind, body or mind? 
Image, like you know...

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I’m a treasure more valuable than gold,
Once a heart stops beating – after the breath stops
Breathing, I am the most cherished possession,
Worth more than expensive...

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A slight hesitation
Overlooking what's written
Need yet unfilled
Something tastes different
Aggravation, is this all we get to be?
I am somewhere else, same destination
So bitter, not sweet
Taking words...

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moments of rapture 
              sometimes tragic in stature
    ...

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there it hung
in some corner
old and forgotten
constant reminder
of what I'd lost



AP: 3rd place 2020

Posted on July 11, 2020...

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Their love affair 
Was coming to an end
He'd felt the shadow 
Of it
For a while now

It started
With subtle 
Changes 
In her ways with him
Then ones...

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She has in her hand a basket of kittens,
Holds one aloft-her gaze fixed tenderly.
All around she is festooned with little pink roses,
Down the path some...

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A picture speaks a thousand words..
A picture speaks volumes
A picture captures the precise moment in time..
Frozen forever in just a moment

A smile
A frown
frozen solid in...

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It stood alone upon the shelf
above the hearth, warmed by flame.
I'd gazed too many times to count
at those two inside the picture frame

Cut square from...

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For some strange reason the need to see
a look through the box of what use to be
Stacks of time some neatly arranged 
a glimpse back...

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Picture a Day


There are pictures of days
I have no memory of,

baby pictures….
could be anybody…

around eighth grade…
ahh, could be me…

High School graduation…
OH YEAH!!!   ME.

19...

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Gracefully gliding, reaching you in sky,
Chasing all notes on air in sublime rhyme,
With shining leotard, my wish is to fly.

I feel every rhythm from time...

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What recollection 
I have in mind
In the name of progress
I put away in the garage
In its very own box labeled nostalgia
A long time ago

To painful...

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It’s just a piece of paper
Decorating the white bed
We used to share, remember?
A piece of paper full of regret 
From the day we first met
And...

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You say,

              "Cheese!"

and in the magic window the time is an eternity...

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