Short Bygone Times Poems

Kapriolen des Lebens / Capers of Life / Las cabriolas de vida  

Kapriolen des Lebens
Genauso wie fernes Irrlicht
In Vergangenheit


The capers of life
Like a far distant ghost light
In those bygone times


Cabriolas de vida
Luz fantasma lejano
En tiempos pasados...

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She wanders the halls in a world of her own
lost in an era of bygone times
with faltering steps, to the day room she goes
softly humming the tune of a lullaby.

Time rewinds, she sways 'neath his youthful gaze
his deep voice whispers into her ear
her lined face shines, frail arms raise to embrace
dancing to the music only she can hear. 













Written on 9/30/2015...

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Memories

Memories drift through the mind,
Like echoes of half forgotten songs.
Flickering images of faces,
Dance like autumn leaves.
Fleeting glimpses of bygone times,
When life was young and new.
Joy and sorrow, pain and loss,
Of loves not quite forgotten.
Faces dimmed by passing time,
Getting harder to recall.
Age clouds those images now,
Once so bright and sharp.
But they will linger there,
Until I fade away....

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As water rushes the river rock,
smoothing out the rough, sharp edges,
she dangles sun soaked legs from the dock,
while admiring the mountain ledges.

Smoothing out the rough, sharp edges,
borrowing innocence from bygone times,
while admiring the mountain ledges,
she toe taps her harmonic rhymes.

Borrowing innocence from bygone times,
she dangles sun soaked legs from the dock.
She toe taps her harmonic rhymes,
as water rushes the river rock....

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