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Hi Mneme - that's right, there are many of them who need mothering, sadly.

posted by Antonionioni on June 8, 2007 at 8:23 AM | link to this | reply

Tonyzonit

I like the thought of "mother memory" (making it all better...). Sad to think of those abused kids though.  

posted by mneme on June 8, 2007 at 4:23 AM | link to this | reply

Hi MandaLee - thanks!!

posted by Antonionioni on June 5, 2007 at 10:43 AM | link to this | reply

Hi IP - thanks so much!!

posted by Antonionioni on June 5, 2007 at 10:43 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Tony

Hi Teddy - they can be, yes - although unlike Shakespeare, I don't normally summon up the bad ones on purpose to feel the emotions again - but maybe I should, to aid my creative juices!

posted by Antonionioni on June 5, 2007 at 10:42 AM | link to this | reply

That's so kind of you to say, OTA - I'm embarrassed!!

 But thanks - and yes, I'm sure we do suppress memories - there was one that I suppressed, without realising it, for ten years or more, and there may of course be others tht I have never retrieved!

posted by Antonionioni on June 5, 2007 at 10:39 AM | link to this | reply

Hi Kabu! That's absolutely right. The Greeks weren't far behind us, even

without the 2,000-plus years of science in between! Yes, I have  - and to old houses. They always seem smaller than you remember, too. But the smallness of childhood that leads to everything being a bit more awe-inspiring also is an explanation, I suppose, of why the world can be more scary when we're small.

posted by Antonionioni on June 5, 2007 at 10:35 AM | link to this | reply

excellent.

posted by MandaLee on June 5, 2007 at 9:23 AM | link to this | reply

Solid like a rock!Powerful words,magnificent poem!

posted by IronicParadox on June 5, 2007 at 4:41 AM | link to this | reply

Tony

Very well done, my friend...memories are sometimes the hellish danse, no?

posted by _teddypoet_ on June 5, 2007 at 2:46 AM | link to this | reply

Tony

so much packed into this one my friend.. my praise seems inadequate.. so dear to my heart this school of memory and dreams that we sometimes avoid to survive.

posted by OTA. on June 5, 2007 at 2:38 AM | link to this | reply

Tony again you hit a button of truth. Way back in the time of the ancient

Greeks they were looking back at their youth with unrealistic nostalgia."Back in my day"!!!!!

Have you ever gone back to ....say your old school? so disappointing.

posted by Kabu on June 5, 2007 at 2:28 AM | link to this | reply

Hello there, Rae - thanks! Looking back on childhood can be quite scary -

it was such a vulnerable time, physically and emotionally. People forget, sometimes. I'm quite lucky compared to some, but the very fact that children cry and grown-ups don't is just one example of how much more traumatic childhood can be, even when relatively trivial mishaps occur or when children are shouted at.

posted by Antonionioni on June 5, 2007 at 1:11 AM | link to this | reply

Hi Atrophy - that's good of you, I'd be honoured - thanks again!

posted by Antonionioni on June 5, 2007 at 1:06 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks Munih - nice to hear from you again!

posted by Antonionioni on June 5, 2007 at 1:04 AM | link to this | reply

Powerfully wise, Tony

Excellent work!  This sonnet really hits home with me. Artistic endeavors open pathways to repressed memories; writing especially so, I think. I've been slogging through a quasi fictional effort for years; the surfacing of a shadow childhood becomes emotionally draining. I have to step back and allow the healing process a period of quietude.

posted by PoetRaye on June 4, 2007 at 9:20 PM | link to this | reply

Re: Sonnet 273

Tony,

This is a fine piece of writing. Very well done.

And you are right! On this day, happenstance has led us on two paths to a very similar endpoint. Such an interesting occurrence.

I look forward to thumbing through your archives and discovering other like-minded themes (as well as themes my "older" self has not yet touched upon).

Cheers,

dja

posted by Atrophy on June 4, 2007 at 8:33 PM | link to this | reply

Wonderful!

posted by Munih on June 4, 2007 at 7:59 PM | link to this | reply

That's kind of you - some week you've got ahead of you!!

Will you be absent from Blogitville or will you still post - photos, if i know you as well as i think! i like seeing your travel photos - usually with lots of friendly smiling faces in them!

posted by Antonionioni on June 4, 2007 at 3:32 PM | link to this | reply

Tony, well is shows. They're all good. But this one was brilliant. ;)

posted by FoliageGold on June 4, 2007 at 3:27 PM | link to this | reply

Hi Mary - many thanks! I took longer over this one than I wanted to!

But then I often do!! I'd love to write them all in ten minutes!

posted by Antonionioni on June 4, 2007 at 3:24 PM | link to this | reply

Hi Dark Mistress - thamks very much for that!!

posted by Antonionioni on June 4, 2007 at 3:19 PM | link to this | reply

Thanks, Troosha! Really, it refers to selective memory.

But you're right, the real psychological challenges and traumas are, i believe, in the younger years, as we discover whether we are to be popular and successful, or not - plus the horrific things that can happen to children and the impact t has on their excitable and fragile minds.

posted by Antonionioni on June 4, 2007 at 3:18 PM | link to this | reply

Cool, that's exactly what most of it is, Gilda - pithy fun.

That's the best description I've had so far. Thanks!!!!!

posted by Antonionioni on June 4, 2007 at 3:08 PM | link to this | reply

Tony

Oh my, the imagery in this one is just wonderful.  Memories are like that.  So, so, so well done, Tony.  

posted by FoliageGold on June 4, 2007 at 2:11 PM | link to this | reply

Wow...very well written

posted by dark_mistress on June 4, 2007 at 1:45 PM | link to this | reply

Tony

Ahh yes – those younger years of “rosey hues” and “washing away our blues”. Now sometimes there’s no escape and now we watch another generation (or at least I do with my daughter) struggling with the same or even greater challenges.

posted by Troosha on June 4, 2007 at 1:31 PM | link to this | reply

good work. FUn and pithy, or rather: pithy without being unfunny - NO, I didn't mean unfunny as in funny but not unfunny as in being fun. Never mind...

Signed: Gilda Radner.

posted by Tarpa on June 4, 2007 at 12:38 PM | link to this | reply

Tony

Ground control to Major Tony...

posted by Enigmatic68 on June 4, 2007 at 12:34 PM | link to this | reply

Ha ha - well, Eniggy Stardust (d'you like that one?), younger days

could simply be last year or last week. Time's relative and all that, ya know. Thanks matey!

posted by Antonionioni on June 4, 2007 at 11:51 AM | link to this | reply

Tony

"Younger days?" How old do you think I am, grandpa?! Just kidding, beautiful poem!

posted by Enigmatic68 on June 4, 2007 at 11:32 AM | link to this | reply