Of Once-upon-a-Place...

PAD Challenge day 13:For today’s prompt, write a memory poem.

 (This poem will inspire in each reader a purely personal picture:)

Here is a blip of my October-memories

 

There is a phantom place

Where, time and time again

We wander to embrace

A fragmented refrain

For nevermore in full

Can we its tenure touch

As Past’s incessant pull

Peels pictures from our clutch

The best and worst of days

Succumb; becoming naught

But gossamer gold-grays

In the landscape of thought

Where time and time again

We travel, misty-eyed

To what could not remain

Too long on life-song’s tide

The poems Past imparts

Need no interpreter

They rush our heart of hearts

In a bittersweet blur

Of once-upon-a-place

That nevermore will be

Save in thought’s soft embrace

Of this; a memory

© Janet Martin