Memories from the distant past intrude into the present...
and when infancy's twilight hides what feels
like life-times in half-dreamt dreams, sleep storm-tossed
surrenders glimpses of childhood's ideals
now only half-remembered. It is these,
that I dislodge from my still obscure past
(existing despite the present's dis-ease),
before life as an outcast unsurpassed.
Like echoes from out of immortal time,
mnemonic ghosts appear and disappear;
and now are fixed in everlasting rhyme,
writ on earth under the celestial sphere.
And since upon remembrance of things past,
my late innocence returns at long last!
Sonnet by Ngoc Nguyen
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Written on 2022-09-06 at 15:35
Tags Childhood Recollection Remembrance
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Upon Remembrance of Things Past
When memories are memories long-lost,and when infancy's twilight hides what feels
like life-times in half-dreamt dreams, sleep storm-tossed
surrenders glimpses of childhood's ideals
now only half-remembered. It is these,
that I dislodge from my still obscure past
(existing despite the present's dis-ease),
before life as an outcast unsurpassed.
Like echoes from out of immortal time,
mnemonic ghosts appear and disappear;
and now are fixed in everlasting rhyme,
writ on earth under the celestial sphere.
And since upon remembrance of things past,
my late innocence returns at long last!
Sonnet by Ngoc Nguyen
Read 202 times
Written on 2022-09-06 at 15:35
Tags Childhood Recollection Remembrance
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