Old Times Were Better. A poem
Girl playing with a doll by Henri-Pierre Danloux (1790) - Image in the Public Domain
Old times were always better,
my grandmother used to say.
I, a little child, did not really get it;
old times are past, and I loved my dolls.
I thought this,
or a similar thought,
with the words and indulgence
of a four year old.
By the moment I meet Past,
—I think to myself—,
loves are lost and stars are gone
to the other side of the globe.
But longing hearts and youths
look lonesome within picture frames
now that present begins to wrinkle,
rendering memories askew.
And the awry truth of present day
twists my brains and my will.
And I remember, I remember
how I played with my dolls.
Apprehension was a ghost
haunting perennial conversations.
While my dolls chose their drama
to be done by the minute.
Oh, how I amused myself
among elastic characters
among elated souls
of elaborated fictions.
Past has come running to find me,
and I sourly remember
how I played with my dolls
when times were all that better.
Thanks for reading.
Posted from my blog with SteemPress : https://marlyncabrera.timeets.com/2018/11/20/old-times-were-better-a-poem/
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No fue la mejor opción pero lo pasé por un traductor.
Bellos versos que de alguna forma me recuerdan a mi infancia.
Los recuerdos de la niñez, aun cuando sean agradables, siempre nos dejan nostalgia.
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It is always enjoyable to read your poems, @marylncabrera. Thank you for having posted your "Old Times Were Better".
The action figures that I used to play with, when a child, were Star Wars, Transformers, and Space LEGO. When my friends and I became older, we did re-arrange the parts of G.I. Joe action figures, and use model paint to turn them into Marvel and DC superheroes.
Then we would take them on missions that included putting them on rafts to watch them float in the ravine; if they made it all the way to the end, we would watch them sail away.
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What you describe, I guess, is typical of boys. The kind of relationsip between you guys and your action figures, for example, is quite different than the one we girls have with our dolls; I can't picture myself and myfriends getting together to dress up our oldfashioned dolls and get them in a lizard-drawn or cat-drawn carriage to see them go off to some royal ball. I guess we would try to control them as we roleplay (we would certainly attend the ball, our puppetish firends in our bossy hands). Usually, I guess, fathers want to see their boys manage by themselves, while mothers want company; something similar happens between men/women and their “dolls.”
(I miss your sonnets.)
Dear @marlyncabrera,
Thank you, *Smiles. I hope to make more friendships at Steemit, and to join more communities, before posting anymore of my sonnets that are songs, and which also include the literary videos that I made for them, because I do not want for them to become buried in the blockchain, as my “Trembling Streams” and “Shipwreck’d Desires” sonnets/songs/literary videos were.
From Lannie.
I understand. I remember having read somewhere that Steemit was all about "relations, relations, relations." It is a shame to feel you waste your effort because of a failure in the strategy; definitely, you must save the best for last (or until it is time).
Have you considered joining a community?
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