The Old Photo Album

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Just an old photo album battered and worn

With images faded and one or two torn

There’s Granny and Grandad, Mum, Dad and me

Each page recalling a happy memory

Mum and Dad so young on their Wedding Day

With Mum tenderly holding her Bridal Bouquet

Family, friends and guests quite a few

As they made their vows to be faithful and true

There’s Mum with a baby girl, pretty but small

With Dad proudly standing as though ten feet tall

Birthdays, holidays, Christmas each year

With Mum and Dad gone I now shed a tear

For time has traveled on and I have now grown

With a husband and family all of my own

We have our own album, which brings us great pleasure

But it’s the old photo album that’s my greatest treasure

It’s just an old photo album battered and worn

It’s images faded and one or two torn

Reviews

[D]

Mum and Dad so young on their Wedding Day
With Mum tenderly holding her Bridal Bouquet

I have a few of my own too...of mum and dad on their wedding day...they were in their twenties....Now mum is old and dad has passed away....So this touched such a chord in me.

Dear Marie, this is a masterpiece. The rhyme, meter, flow, the sentiments that touch the heart. This poem inspires many many poems. You've done wonders with the subject. I cannot say enough for this work.

Personally, I sometimes slip into that bygone world, trapped in those yellowing, fading pictures. They come alive in our minds, don't they? Its a forlorn journey, with time, places and we people we loved but may never see again.

[Marie]

Thank you so very much for reading and for your very kind words, dear Divya. I am so pleased you enjoyed the poem and like it. I am most grateful. Wishing you a very lovely evening to enjoy, dear friend...

[D]

You're most welcome, dear Marie. It's a joy to read your poetry.

🙋‍♀️💕

[Marie]

🌹...🙏 ...🌹

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Old pictures are captured memories that cannot be replaced; a history recorded and a soft voice calling, remember when? I enjoyed the read.

[Marie]

Thank you so very much for reading, Fabian and for your lovely comment, bless you. Wishing you a very nice evening and a lovely weekend too. Enjoy!

[Samuel Dickens]

I believe old pictures are treasures that should be forever safeguarded. In my experience, the keeper passes on and those IRREPLACEABLE gems might not end up in the right hands. (I'll not get into my experiences with that)
I followed along and felt what you felt, viewing the eternally young faces of yesteryear. That old tattered and worn photo album is more precious than gold. Tis a beautiful and sensitive moment you create.

[Marie]

Thank you so v-e-r-y much for reading and for your most kind comment which I love. Thank you again for sharing with me. I am most grateful, Sam...

[Thomas W Case]

So very relatable. Such memories. Beautiful, moving write, Marie.

[Marie]

Thank you so very much for reading, Thomas and for your very encouraging comment...

[Poetic Beauty]

Photo albums have so much meaning and are irreplaceable treasures. They are time capsules that allow us to walk through the past even if for a few moments. I have treasured photos of my grandparents who have left this earth years ago and family friends that have departed as well and even a few friends that have made their journey skyward.

That album that is tatter and torn is worth its weight in platinum and diamonds. Priceless really if we are to be honest.


I love the way you wrote this poem. It is well worded and it makes it seem as if it isn’t important at first until it’s opened.

[Marie]

Dear Poetic Beauty, thank you for kindly reading this poem and for your very kind comment which encapsulates exactly what the poem is all about. Wishing you a very nice day to enjoy, dear P.B. and thank you again...

[Poetic Beauty]

You are welcome and enjoy time traveling into the past with your precious photo album

[Marie]

Thank you so v-e-r-y much, dear P. V...

[red93]

So special and beloved these photographic memories - and now you have a very special Poem to accompany them. Excellent ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[Marie]

Thank you for kindly reading and for your very kind comment, red93. So pleased you enjoyed reading...

[emmajoygreen]

'We have our own album, which brings us great pleasure
But it’s the old photo album that’s my greatest treasure
It’s just an old photo album battered and worn
It’s images faded and one or two torn'

No matter the fading, somehow of it faded completely you would have remembered staring, gazing, learning the figures, the places, emotions and all. Love lives in a photo album. Insurance, where when possible - God willing, can pay for new furniture, BUT nothing (unless duplicated) can replace the cinders of once loved albums.

'Just an old photo album battered and worn
With images faded and one or two torn'

Not 'just' , never could be. I know.

[Marie]

Hello dear Emma and thank you for kindly reading and commenting on my little poem. I am so pleased you enjoyed reading it. Yes, the true value of such an item can never be known because it is irreplaceable as you so rightly say. Have a very lovely, pleasant and blessed day, dear Emma and thank you again...

[emmajoygreen]

My pleasure always, your words smile me!!!

[Marie]

Awww... Bless you, dear Emma...

[emmajoygreen]

Quick smile but - a goodie!

[Tom]

" It’s just an old photo album battered and worn

It’s images faded and one or two torn " ... Maybe so but priceless memories forever sealed between the binders of dearest famly members and happy times they sure were!

A personable, precious, poetic jewel my friend, beautifully penned in fine, flowing rhyme, endearing indeed!!

[Marie]

Hello Tom and thank you for giving me your time and energy through reading this poem. I am so pleased you both like and enjoyed reading it. Wishing you a very nice, relaxed and blessed Monday to enjoy...

[Poetic_Vixen]

I'm loving this poetry that has two living stories in picture frames, one that's been battered but the memories is still alive as the faces of the figures in them, the memory does more than infect me with its sweetness, their irreplaceable place, their warmth, the other being the picture of the family you made, even though loving they are, I wonder what is it about the first picture frame that is more dear to the poet, is it because they were surrounded with warmth and love of their elders when they were very vulnerable, as they now stand as a figure to be relied upon while they reminisce the times when they used to be carefree...I loved this sweet remembrance sung in the poem, the effortless rhymes touching every line and your words making the imagery evident as their sensations! A beautiful delight of a poem there, Marie!

[Marie]

Dear P.V. I am deeply indebted to you for the amazing and wonderful review which you have so kindly given to my very humble little poem. The poem was created out of the fact that I have no photograph of both my maternal and paternal Grandparents, they had died before I came along, so I never met them in this lifetime, but oh, how I wish I had. So, the poem came about because I had an old treasured photo album with their photo's in it. I have some of my parents later in life, but not when they were young. As the years go by, we treasure the old photographs we have, they are the memories of yesteryear, dear P.V. So pleased you like the poem, dear poetess and thank you again for your great kindness in reading it and for your very kind comment. Gratitude with brightest blessings your way, dear P.V...

[Poetic_Vixen]

The real story behind this poem here has moved my heart...I can feel now why their photograph became a treasured possession. I am very grateful to you for sharing your story and this poem has so divinely reflected on it, I'm glad to read this dear poetess! Sending you lots of warmth and joy your way my friend!

[Marie]

Thank you so very much for your very kind and understanding comment, dear P.V. Bless you! I too send lots of warmth and joy, together with beautiful blessings your way, my dear friend...

[Poetic_Vixen]

It's a true joy and blessing to be your friend, Marie! Bless you ❤️

[Marie]

It a great joy and blessing for me to be your friend also, dear P.V. Bless you too! On the computer so I can't add a heart but will add a heart representative

[Marie]

Ah, it didn't appear in the comment, dear P.V. but I do send a heart to you too...

[Poetic_Vixen]

I can already feel the warmth of your heart dear Marie! You're a loving one, here I will add on yours and my behalf ❤️❤️ hehe