<br><br> <br><br><center>All wraiths That rise From sidewalks <br>In pouring rain, Past voices That rebuked My youth Return again; Lines of rain Weave a tapestry Of pain, Crackling with Crumpled cellophane. <br>In haunted doorways Down the lane Spirits mock That I still suffer pain— A bitter ache Can't be erased With benzocaine. <br>Brooding sylphs Of youth long forgot Tempt me To recall your ghost Memories now distant As storms of Venus… Yet I cherish each moment. <br><br><center>© 2019, John J Geddes. All rights reserved</center> <br><br><center>[ Photo]( https://images.app.goo.gl/zhrijQSaZA4vZ5ME8 )</center> <br><br>
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This poem made me wonder: what if we could return at will to moments of the past, to witness/share them from our past selves, without them sensing us, how many could resist the temptation - and how many would find those first beautiful moments of love reigniting the fires inside us? On the darker side, I believe many would devote too much time to those bitter, tortured moments we wish to forget.
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| author | arthur.grafo |
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These kinds of musings you're describing are the very thing that prompted my first novel, A Familiar Rain, which actually took twenty years to write - it was simmering inside me that long - my wife typed the first draft and then it sat in a file cabinet where I taught - I was obsessed with an incident recounted by Wilder Penfield, the famous Canadian brain surgeon who had performed open brain surgery on a woman and his probe accidentally touched a part of her brain that caused her to relive a moment from her past. Meditating on the consequences of that resulted in the book.
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