Author’s note: This is a poem about the different things you can find in the attic of a house…This is one of my favorite poems to date, and I hope you like it too.
Love, wondertrish
The dark and gloomy room,
spiderwebs and dust,
Old iron ornaments,
Now adorned with rust.
Boxes sealed with duct tape,
Scribbled handwriting on the labels,
Tell-tale pictures and letters,
Filled with stories and fables.
Broken shards of glass,
And ribbons specked with red,
Polaroid of a chocolate brown
Dog on a single bed
Vinyl records and trading cards
A girl in braids and glasses,
Family toasting marshmallows,
And watching the wood crumble to ashes
Smiles of a father and son,
Holding a 10-pound fish,
A two-year-old toddler,
Blowing her candle, making a wish.
Eggnog on Christmas,
The city filled with colorful lights,
An aspiring teenage poet,
Staring into the starry night…
These photographs, letters, memories,
Make up the essence of humankind,
Stuff that is too important,
For anyone to leave behind.
Emotional importance by far surpasses,
The importance of materialistic things,
After all, it’s the stories on forgotten letters,
That continue the legend of generous kings.
So, even if these old memorabilia,
Seems like a waste of space today,
Trust me, they’ll make you smile
As you live life on your way.
Memories make you who you are.
Never let them go.
September 9, 2020 at 1:02 pm
These kinda attics can be see in English horror movies. Anyway I found only spiders and chipkalis
U want some ?
September 9, 2020 at 1:59 pm
Nahi bhai…I’m terrified of chipkalis 😉
August 25, 2020 at 9:47 am
Beautiful lines which can make anyone pleasantly nostalgic! I can totally relate to it. But one thought is nagging my mind. As we are going more and more digital, we are having fewer number of photographs, letters and cards. So the next gen will find more memories in their laptops/ tabs/ phones than their attics 😄. Just a thought..
August 18, 2020 at 4:00 pm
Beautifully worded ! Made me feel very nostalgic. When we retrospect, everything is a blur, only the moments that we cherish remain as clear as a day😁
August 15, 2020 at 11:36 am
Superbly written..though some of it I will try to understand when I meet you in person.. especially the 10-pound fish thing 🙂
August 14, 2020 at 1:06 am
It’s truly nostalgic and it deserves a special place in your heart. Very well written.
August 13, 2020 at 5:14 am
Well…what a coincidence. I was just reminiscing and looking at some old photos. It is very true that we should never let go of our memories. It is our memories that make up our past, and it is because of the past that we are in the present, and have a future to come. They are, truly, the essence of humankind.
Beautiful. As I have said before, none of your poems are better than another. All of them are my favorites.
All of them are the best…
AMAZING.