open eyes
upon a world long gone
memories
flashing by
movies on a drive-in screen
of my youth – long gone
why do these way-ward thoughts
long entombed
bloom
ages long gone
feel like yesterday
happy smiles
of dead friends
are as fresh as spring roses
placed in cool water
though long gone
these memories like new keep
blossoming …
summer scenes
of drive-ins – picnics – fireworks
the 50s – my youth
so I smile
as I indulge happiness
fresh mowed lawns
swimming pools
an old documentary
from my mind’s archives
A shadorma is composed of six non-rhyming lines (sestina or sextet) and the syllable pattern is 3-5-3-3-7-5. It can have as many stanzas as you like, just as long as each stanza follows the syllable pattern mentioned above .
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Sad and yet happy you display how memories are just there how they effect us 🙂 lovely
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I just learned a new form of poetry thank you! I’ll be sure to try it out 🙂
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Ah…that makes me happy…we do a weekly prompt (on Saturday) for this form at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie! 😕
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Cool
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🙂
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Very mellow and so true. Surprising how often memories will simply pop up without warning.
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It is strange how they just pop up…but sometimes it’s like, you smell a certain smell an there’s the memory, or maybe the light in the evening has a particular slant. But then sometimes a memory comes up for no special reason at all. Hope all’s going well with your book promotion! Best of luck on the next phase.
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I remember reading that sense of smell has the biggest connection to memory. So a scent is the mostly likely thing to cause a recall. The sudden appearances are rather strange though.
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I have to agree…recently some of it for me has been due to key words, like drive-in and Cumberland …as the Cumberland road. Stuff I’ve been reading. But sometimes stuff just jumps out of the blue…and that is strange.
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Mine has been musical. Catching an old song and such.
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Ah…yes that works too. I got a jolt the other day from a song called Vacanze Romane…Roman Vacations.
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Lovely use of the form. Memories of long ago bring happiness to our starved souls. Beautiful.
Melanie
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I do so agree.
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You did an excellent job, Georgia 🙂
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Thanks so much Celsetine. 🙂
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Nostalgia… *deep longing sigh* Beautifully expressed, of course!
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Thanks so much CC, glad you liked it!
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