The Day Before the Day Before Today
Looking back upon tomorrow
as if it was only yesterday ..
Checking each late premonition
but it’s clear
to me now my friend, there is
nothing new to do, or see, or say ..
First take a deep breath
then take a breather, I thought
I heard her say ..
But don’t dare make a break for it,
or try to get away ..
Since I recall I watched you drown
in monochrome reflections ..
Some may call them memories ..
The day before, the day before today ..
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Your penchant for telling intimate incidents ought to make any todays more colourfully vivid than unlived tomorrows - great usage of word-play my friend and those clever repetitions make for reading your beguiling reflections all over again. Into my faves with this little tongue-twister.........x
your presence, is as always .. a true delight, to find upon my pages either day or bloomin night .. x
Good write N, but what day is that - Christmas?! lol.
With this, I feel like I'm going shopping and meeting myself coming back, while on the way there! lol. I'm a confused laddie - today, tomorrow, etc.
some things re not new .. not even when they were .. but I guess you knew that when you were coming back on your poor old self .......... 🙂
Can't help but unusually empathize with orchi above, Nev. However confusion can be very productive...
Oh' well, ya win some lose some ..
Ah but you're a sporting kind a fella - no doubt about ya!
The mystery of time permeates your poem, and the last four lines are priceless. For some reason, memories for me are like a classic movie in black and white, preserved in time, where I may start the projector and enjoy them over and over again. This verse so lovely!
you are far too generous for mere words this time in the morning my friend .. 🙂
Great introspective write! I like your reference to monochrome reflections......yes, this is quite good! x
quite good is way too good ............ thank you hugely 🙂 x
Good words Neville.
"Today is the day that you worried about yesterday."
Andy
so far it is anyway .. ta for noticing & tat tah for now sir 🙂
'I watched you drown
in monochrome reflections'
love this wording Hyung..
how we obsess the minutia
details
while watching our opportunity's
dissipate, before our very eyes...
(oh youth, oh weary soul
woe to ye, who dares attempt
to feign, sincerity
damned, to be a blind witness
to all that ye see
and relinquish, needlessly)
thank you kindly brother M ... N
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