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Post by AquarianM on Jul 26, 2018 0:03:12 GMT -6
The Weight Of Ghosts...
Life is like an egg timer,
Or maybe an egg shell,
Or some other fragile damn cliche.
I know the richness of memories,
Times and places only a very few will know,
Less and less every year,
But I remember.
We're like cloud shapes in the sky,
Just visible for a blink or two,
But I have seen some seriously good ones.
It's comical,
When I talk to someone half my age,
The backdrop they're missing,
Utter cool evaporating on the wind.
Faces,
Places,
Times and sayings,
Hair and clothes and music,
But people,
People most of all.
The thought of no one knowing who they were,
That's crushing,
And I wonder if that's what truly ages us,
The sheer weight of ghosts.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 07/25/2018
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Post by lostineternity99 on Jul 26, 2018 6:09:41 GMT -6
You are probably right, Dan; very profound writing.
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Post by QueenFoxy on Jul 26, 2018 11:40:27 GMT -6
There's a lot of food for thought there and those words took me on a long journey as memories flew by. Great write, Dan.
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Post by Brian on Jul 27, 2018 1:45:01 GMT -6
Perhaps that's why we never look for the ghost in the machine of life when we're young. Not only do we know it's there, we know it's not alone. They call us and we hear them all too often too late. Our kind reaches out with two hands to take what we can get and damn the consequences. It's only when those ghosts we've denied have namelessly piled up crossing a threshold we can no longer ignore that we realise we've lived under the pseudonym of being adults. We're naught but children, until we cannot ignore the call any longer. That which we put off catches up to us and as you suggest, the weight of ghosts ages us.
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Post by AquarianM on Jul 31, 2018 23:59:09 GMT -6
Rick, thank you. Sorry to all it's taken me so long to respond. Busy the past couple of weekends AND weeks.
QF, thank you. My favorites are "thinking poems." Love that reply.
Brian, thank you. It's a somber and melancholy thought, but I have a hard time seeing so many things and people that I loved in youth fade. If you add in all the damage just living the way we do puts on the world, it's crushing. I try to leave things better than I found them, but it's not always easy.
Dan
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Post by QueenFoxy on Aug 1, 2018 1:36:36 GMT -6
It may not always be easy, Dan, but I think just trying makes it possible. I sure hope to leave my little corner of the world a little better than I found it. Your words alone, dear poet, leaves beauty in its wake.
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Post by simpledip on Aug 2, 2018 6:23:46 GMT -6
It's comical,
When I talk to someone half my age,
The backdrop they're missing,
Utter cool evaporating on the wind....
Dan,
What you are saying about the "backdrop they're missing"' is so evident in our country now. There is a mad rush for the young ones to leave behind centuries old values and cultural heritage.
I find young ones, and not so young ones too, glued to their mobile phones even when they are walking or even when they are visiting someone.
I live in two worlds - one far far away from the maddening crowd in my village and the other coming to the city for selling the vegetables, fruits and flowers.
Namaste.
- Dip
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Post by QueenFoxy on Aug 2, 2018 6:47:32 GMT -6
You are so right, Dip. It is the same here. I guess it must be the same all over the world. It is sad they miss so much of life when they are lost in their electronic devices. Very sad. It surely does narrow the world they live in. |
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Post by Brian on Aug 2, 2018 22:40:27 GMT -6
Rick, thank you. Sorry to all it's taken me so long to respond. Busy the past couple of weekends AND weeks. QF, thank you. My favorites are "thinking poems." Love that reply. Brian, thank you. It's a somber and melancholy thought, but I have a hard time seeing so many things and people that I loved in youth fade. If you add in all the damage just living the way we do puts on the world, it's crushing. I try to leave things better than I found them, but it's not always easy. Dan No, it's not always easy. I have sometimes wondered if we see more as we age or if we see less, but things that are more important in better focus. I don't know that I'll be ever certain. The shape of the world had truly changed, so have I. Like you, I'd like to leave a few things better than I found them, I can try, then I wonder if it will all be swept away by changes. The only thing I can be sure of is this, if we don't try, then failure is assured. |
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Post by AquarianM on Aug 2, 2018 23:04:39 GMT -6
It's comical, When I talk to someone half my age, The backdrop they're missing, Utter cool evaporating on the wind.... Dan, What you are saying about the "backdrop they're missing"' is so evident in our country now. There is a mad rush for the young ones to leave behind centuries old values and cultural heritage. I find young ones, and not so young ones too, glued to their mobile phones even when they are walking or even when they are visiting someone. I live in two worlds - one far far away from the maddening crowd in my village and the other coming to the city for selling the vegetables, fruits and flowers. Namaste. - Dip Dip - I kind of get that in an odd way. First, I am originally from a small town for the US; 35,000 people when I was growing up. I have lived in a town of 1,050 people, in a town of 15,000, in a city of 300,000, and cities with millions of people. It gives one a very interesting perspective to range across those environments in life. Second, my generation is what I call the "bridge" generation; We grew up in the world of paper and analog devices and mechanics. The second half of our lives will be spent in an environment of incredible digital technology. I have worked in technology for many years, and am now an information technology Instructor at an I.T. college. I am at mid-life, and am equally comfortable in the digital or paper worlds. Both have their blessings and their curses. My biggest fear is that we will lose TOO much of that mechanical knowledge and adaptability as digital technology takes over the planet. Even larger changes are coming in the next three to five years, and no place on the planet - or off of it - will be without truly high-speed internet at a very low price. Dan |
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Post by QueenFoxy on Aug 3, 2018 22:05:12 GMT -6
And in this new information age, my greatest fear is loss of power that would set us back to times some of us have never seen and have no idea how to survive in a world without power.
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Post by goldenmyst on Aug 4, 2018 20:50:01 GMT -6
Dan, we grew up in another time and place altogether. So much the millennials are missing in their lives. You put into concise and lyrical poetry the story of our age.
John
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Post by AquarianM on Aug 10, 2018 19:29:48 GMT -6
Dan, we grew up in another time and place altogether. So much the millennials are missing in their lives. You put into concise and lyrical poetry the story of our age. John John - we did indeed. There is much to miss in that bygone age of analog, yet wonders here in the digital. If only we could merge the best of both. Thank you. Dan |
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