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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
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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
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Hi MandaLee - thanks!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on June 5, 2007 at 10:43 AM
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Hi IP - thanks so much!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on June 5, 2007 at 10:43 AM
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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
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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
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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
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excellent.
posted by
Amanda__
on June 5, 2007 at 9:23 AM
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Solid like a rock!Powerful words,magnificent poem!
posted by
IronicParadox
on June 5, 2007 at 4:41 AM
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Tony
Very well done, my friend...memories are sometimes the hellish danse, no?
posted by
teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade
on June 5, 2007 at 2:46 AM
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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
Blue_feathers
on June 5, 2007 at 2:38 AM
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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
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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
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Hi Atrophy - that's good of you, I'd be honoured - thanks again!
posted by
Antonionioni
on June 5, 2007 at 1:06 AM
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Thanks Munih - nice to hear from you again!
posted by
Antonionioni
on June 5, 2007 at 1:04 AM
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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
Katray2
on June 4, 2007 at 9:20 PM
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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
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Wonderful!
posted by
Munih
on June 4, 2007 at 7:59 PM
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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
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Tony, well is shows. They're all good. But this one was brilliant. ;)
posted by
FoliageGold
on June 4, 2007 at 3:27 PM
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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
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Hi Dark Mistress - thamks very much for that!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on June 4, 2007 at 3:19 PM
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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
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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
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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
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Wow...very well written
posted by
dark_mistress
on June 4, 2007 at 1:45 PM
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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
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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
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Tony
Ground control to Major Tony... 
posted by
Enigmatic68
on June 4, 2007 at 12:34 PM
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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
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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
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