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Bygones !!!
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English Poetry, Jul 2011 Contest |
Let bygones be bygones,
But they do not tell me how?
The past always catches up with me,
I was no saint nor holier-than-thou.
So I try to bury the ghosts of the past,
But they always rise from the ground.
Like an Albatross, rising from the ashes.
Scarring my body, leaving permanent gashes.
But I will not give up and will fight my inner demons.
By hard work, sowing the seeds of a joyous future,
Whether it is dusk or dawn.
The past is after all, just a bygone
Dhananjay Sharma
Hi
Interesting perspective. Bury the ghosts and strive on .Don’t forget the lesson .
sarala
@SARALA KURUP JAGAN, thanks for the encouraging words !!
Nice worthy poem of profitable pondering
but who is this who is so harsh on you for your past doings,
It is none other than you yourself with yourself misbehaving
Treat this traitor within you with disdain, tell him to stop criticizing
And see a new chapter opens in your life for purposeful living
@Vishvnand, thank you sir…as you rightly said a man’s worst enemy is his inner self !
This is a good poem! Glad to read it. The albatross usually denotes the ‘ghosts from the past’ made famous by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
What was nice was superimposing the albatross on the phoenix that resurrects from its own ashes! An albatross with the qualities of phoenix: really thought-worthy.
Nice!
@saurabh, happy that you liked it…..thanks !!
a beauty of a poem, Dhananjay
keep it up
@Parespeare, thanks mate !!!!
Dhananjay,
“Like an Albatross, rising from the ashes.” – liked this image,
Fergus
@Gion Gion, thanks !!!