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Excavations

July 25, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in History, poetry

Fragments of

time just keep

emerging

from my brain

like finds from

archaeo-

logical

digs brought to

the surface

for study.

I turn them

over in

my mind’s eye

but they seem

to form no

pattern, no

clues to a

lost dark age.

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Payment due

June 25, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in History, literature, poetry

Writing a

memoir is

a life’s work.

It has to

be earned

by the lines

of your face,

the wrinkles

of your hands,

the night fears

of your sleep,

the weariness

of your brain,

the failing of

your body,

and finished

just in time.

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Philatelic thoughts

June 7, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in History, media, poetry

Sometimes,

when I am

sorting my old

English

postage

stamps,

I wonder if

this one or

that one was

a stamp my

great great

grandfather

might have

used.

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You must remember this

May 5, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in History, poetry

Sometimes I

meet someone

from my past

who tells me

something I didn’t

know about

a common friend,

or enemy,

or event,

that completely

alters my

memory of

that person

or history.

Are all of

my memories

fungible?

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Vanishing perspective

March 19, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in Bon mots, History, poetry

Once upon a

time I used to

say “Oh, if only

I was twenty

years younger”.

Now, suddenly

it seems, I

have to say

”Oh, if only

I was fifty

years younger.”

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Dem bones, dem bones

February 22, 2020February 22, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in Bon mots, History, literature, poetry

Every

family

has closets

packed full of

skeletons,

but some rattle

more loudly

than others

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Timing

January 26, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in Bon mots, cancer, History, literature, poetry

Good time
Bad time
Quick time
Slow time
First time
Last time
Past time
Present.

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Last Word

January 26, 2020January 26, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in Bon mots, History, poetry, science

The secret of
writing a good
autobiography
is to outlive
all of your
contemporaries

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The lost generation

December 5, 2019 by nomdeplume707, posted in Bon mots, History, literature, poetry, science

When I see an

unusual

familiar name

in the news,

I think, “Oh

that must be

the daughter

(or son) of

someone who

I once knew”.

Turns out,

these days,

it’s usually

a grandchild.

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Put it in your album

June 14, 2019 by nomdeplume707, posted in Bon mots, literature, poetry

You take photos

to remind

yourself of

good times.

But you can’t

bear to look

at them again

because they

remind you of

good times.

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