Poem -
Transience
The day before nostalgia, is a memory not yet made.
Impermanence the present, that’s about to be betrayed.
Change the only guarantee we know for sure endures,
mortality the price we pay that keeps it ever yours
Like rainbows, when we see them, a sweet promise in the sky,
an arc of living colour born to flourish, then to die.
It’s beauty is in dying, such strange idiosyncrasy,
still time, the rolling river, flows unhindered to the sea
Pursue the fleeting sunset, live within the time it’s there,
immersed within the present, take it’s glory made to share.
Yet nothing lasts for ever, and this too shall pass away,
don’t look to make nostalgia,seek the beauty in today.
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The impermanence of everything is inevitable ..I love the way you have expressed it so well..yet encouraging a positive attiude to appreciate what we have right now..as you say nostalgia is today but visited tomorrow! Lovely and insightful Lodi.
Thank you so much.. always appreciate your kind words hun xx
I love everything about this one. The very first line,
I love the imagery in just those four words. Then this fantastic poem just keeps giving. The acceptance of impermanence and of time. Brilliant.
The word nostalgia comes out of the Napoleonic wars and they believed that the absence of home could cause a fatal depression. I think they call that war.
Carpe diem Lady Lodigiana.
Nigel
Hi Nigel, you have no idea how pleased I am that you absolutely ‘got’ my intention here! You are a wonderful trove of information ..I didn’t know about the derivation of ‘Nostalgia’ but doesn’t that just conjour up exactly the feeling it relates to?...I am now tempted to write something historical..I have only ever done a couple but really enjoyed the research involved..thank you for the inspiration my dear friend..and as always thank you for your positive support. Lodigiana x
I look forward to reading it. After all, they don"t make nostalgia like they used to.
Oh, and could I please pinch the first line and use it, slightly changed, in a different context?
Nigel
Haha that is so true! I also think it comes with rose tinted glasses leading us to believe the past was in every way preferable to the present...and yes of course you are welcome to use that first line..I will look forward to reading it x
Lady L, forget about rose tinted glasses in the past I could run for the bus without risking a heart attack. That's nostalgia.
Nigel
I can now feel a comedy write coming on just thinking nostalgically about the past..much of which involves the unappreciated ability to do and like so many things....such as...getting out of a chair without the accompanying groan, going into another room and actually knowing WHY I have gone in there..and when the thought of an electric toothbrush as a gift fills me with joy rather than bored indifference..pass the tinted please! X
Dont look to make nostalgia,
Seek the beauty in today.
Pure genius.
So true! Right now is all there is...take every bit out of today and treasure it..thank you so much for your comment and kind words. Lodigiana x
Hello Lodigiana...
Fantastic write and message!
Thank you for sharing...
Hugs...
sparrowsong
So pleased you enjoyed it..thank you Sparrowsong.xx
Lodigiana what is there left to say but thank you.
Thank you for what you generously share for all on here and offer the poetry world.
You are sorely missed.
I hope all is well. x.