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Illusions of the Distant Past
by Nancy Pawley
copyright 03-03-2004


Age Rating: 10 to 127

  Illusions of the Distant Past
Picture Credits:

The children’s frontier playground has grown empty
in the less than peaceful twilight hours
No small voices squealing out with laughter or delight
Just the prickly winter wind whispering my name

Quick-silver ghosts from many yesterdays
glide a two-step fade
Phosphorescent souls moving off to altered planes
Their impenetrable shadows ride the merry-go-round
Trapped feelings circling in bittersweet illumination

It won’t be long until the hooligans of darkness
make their daily rounds, so I quickly walk back home
Fate refuses no one here;
he bides his bargainless time
watching each tomorrow swiftly flowing
to the pounding future’s shore

Not content to settle in the bounty
of what’s here and now
He seeks to confiscate the mortal present
by offering kaleidoscopic visions;
scalloped fantail fantasies
Nothing that can catch my fancy
while I’m reflecting on illusions of the distant past


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05-13-2005 Anthony Lane Stahlhut    

This is a very imaginative write, the depths of evil and the darkness of night,reflecting illusions of the distant past. Almost scary to read on friday the thirteenth! Thanks for the chill down my spine! Anthony
03-05-2004 Moses Hochstetler    

I like the wording of this. It reminds me a little of my "Peace In Bozrah" poem. The grim skeletons at the table sets the mood just right!

Moses
03-04-2004 Debra Rose    

The past is something of a comfort, something that can never be torn from you feet, because it has already happened and can never be forgotten unless by some unfortunate chance. Beautiful peom, Nancy. I love the picture that goes with it.

Forever,
Debra
03-04-2004 Lyle Berry    

Fantastic imagery and symbolism. Went well with my pic from Skeletons in My Closet.

Best Regards,
Lyle
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