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RE: Unforgettable

in #poetry7 years ago

Beautiful,

I love the pictures you choose. Somehow I feel like I'm reading Songs of Solomon with the lovers being opposites. Fall may come with a bite but I am welcome to accept this season with open arms.

Those places you've "forgot" come back with all the smells and colors of a change in season. And we've new memories to make.

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Hey @mineopoly that's interesting it made you think of Songs of Solomon! And I quite agree that this time of year brings back many memories of bygone years. I am 27 - I can only imagine how it might be to remember twice as many years past. Though, I think the teenage years will always be particularly powerful in anyone's memory, even if they fade and curl with the years like a yellowed tome.

It was the "unserrated teeth" that sounded like a description Solomon might have used:

Your eyes are doves
behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes
that have come up from the washing,
all of which bear twins,
and not one among them has lost its young.
Your lips are like a scarlet thread,
and your mouth is lovely.
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
behind your veil.

In 8th grade I remember going to a haunted house in October. It was cold and snowy outside and the girl I liked had no money for a ticket. I bought her a ticket and she gave me the biggest hug and kiss so it was hard to forget even when we met again years after. The moment not forgotten yet not rekindled.