Old Collected Clippings

Trunks & boxes stuffed with memories, collected snippets, and other items.

Old Collected Clippings

 

Hidden in family gem containers,

Time-worn newspaper articles,

They're scattered about

Inside, with imperfections and torn edges,

Often too, curled, and discolored,

The once bold dashes of realism 

with existing

Actualities are now being

affected by the soiled fingers with

chipped nails,

forming different patterns

and echoed pasts,

among printed blotches,

many fragile lines develop,

becoming a grime exposure,

of a volatile abstract in

Sepia tones and washed out grays,

tangled with other collected pieces

that are often still flashes

of obsessive photographer observations

where bygone gazes are staring

with fixed movement

and distant indications

in superfluous detachment,

the clarity is gone that was once captured

with the apparent wanderer using

text concepts containing

barbed boldness, reflecting brashness

like a faded ream of velvet wallpaper

collecting cigarette vapors

and tearing into fused expressions;

However, its character is brief,

too fickle to be interesting,

daily legitimacies,

and some tabloid lies

are all that remains.

  --J. E. Cook ©2017

Author's Note

Thanks for reading!

Reviews

[barleygirl]

This is an unusual way to approach this topic. I like originality & you've done it here by focusing on the physical attributes of the actual junk foray, rather than on the content of these clippings. We see the search, but we can't really see the actual past experiences from your well-selected details -- interesting & thought-provoking! Fondly, Margie

[Josie E. Cook M. A.]

Thanks for your opinions and insight!

[Lizzie]

I really enjoy this feels as if you are remembering going back with this clippings.

[Josie E. Cook M. A.]

Thanks, Lizzie!

[Coyote Poetry]

I liked the photos and your description. In the end. The good memories keep us alive and positive. Photos for the heart. Can make us smile and laugh years later. Thank you Josie for sharing the amazing poetry. I enjoyed this one.
Coyote

[Josie E. Cook M. A.]

Thanks for your thoughts on this.
:)
This was my sister's horse that she raised and trained. She had to put it down after a very long life. Our whole family used him often for shows.

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome dear Josie.