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Memory

BY: @johnjgeddes | CREATED: Aug. 1, 2019, 3:46 a.m. | VOTES: 225 | PAYOUT: $2.35 | [ VOTE ]

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Memory intrudes
Without apology

Making the passage
Of years
Inconsequential,

Leaving me
Finger painting
In dust,

Mocking
My penchant
For relevancy,

unnerving
And disturbing
The order within me;

Staining
My emptiness
With your colours and scent,

The way a window
Burns red
Long after the sun has set.

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Replies

@tidnull | Aug. 1, 2019, 9:30 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Memories do be like that though!

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@johnjgeddes | Aug. 2, 2019, 2:25 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

thank you for your response

@arthur.grafo | Aug. 2, 2019, 8:03 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I especially liked

>Staining
My emptiness
With your colours and scent,

...because it is so real that it is more like a happening than words on a page.

@johnjgeddes | Aug. 2, 2019, 5:39 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

that last observation sums up the essence of poetry to me - it's not simply a communication of ideas but a re-creation of the experience so the reader can share in it too

@awgbibb | Aug. 2, 2019, 9:13 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Perhaps, the one that got away?

@johnjgeddes | Aug. 2, 2019, 5:36 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

the poem lends itself to that interpretation too, but with me, I never fully embrace an emotion at the time but find it keeps growing afterwards in memory

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