Bookends

...first writing of a new year!

Bookends

 

 

We are immortal

like the sea,

like the tide

that rushes in

then out again

 

Its silence speaks

to my amaretto soul,

sequestering the words

to a Simon & Garfunkel tune

 

about a time of innocence,

a time of confidences.

 

I’ve preserved your memories,

sepia tones of lost afternoons.

 

They’re all that’s left you.

Author's Note

There are songs that move me to tears, and "Bookends" by Simon & Garfunkel, is one of them. I wanted to take a few lines and incorporate them into a poem that expresses love and the loss of it in our lives. This is what I came up with.

Reviews

[andrew mitchell]

indeed, how time waits for no one and all fades to sepia tones as we and the family tree struggle to remember. nice and poetic Kelly.

[Kelly Scheppers]

So happy to see you, Andrew. So kind of you to say....thank you!

[andrew mitchell]

You are welcome, all the best for 2018

[jacob erin-cilberto]

"time it was and what a time it was"
my heroes...i was just watching my dvd the other night...Simon and Garfunkel in concert "Old Friends"
from 2003...
and they remind me with that song of some old friends i lost along the way...but i still remember the time of innocence in the sixties..and how those friends were such confidants...
the thoughts of them still bookend my life., Always will.

[Kelly Scheppers]

Well said, Jacob. Thank you so much!