Face Book

book of memories

 

Face Book

wandering through my book of life,

looking back through the ages

all the faces I have known,

are pressed here on these tattered pages

my schoolyard friends just goofy kids,

we all grew up on farms

where cute little country girls,

learned how to use their charms

my folks got tired of country ways

decided to make a move,

big city suburbs teenage cats

they danced and worked their groove

all new faces a crazy hectic pace

took a while to find my place,

athletic ventures, new bonding friends

faces in a line that never ends

some faces were fat and chunky

some even looked like a monkey,

in my book of days gone past

memories that will always last

some buddies who were lost to war

girlfriends sitting on the hood of my car,

mom and pop both getting old

building snowmen in the cold

book of faces old and new

brothers and sisters and party drunks,

hell there might even be one of you

old GI buddies sitting on their bunks

 

look, here's one of my old band

long haired hippies happy and stoned,

times back then were oh so grand

on old guitars borrowed and loaned

cousins, children, and friends long gone

this face book is never ending,

adding new ones almost every day

once in my book, in my heart they'll stay

Gomer LePoet...

Reviews

[Devons]

Makes the internet Facebook look like an anonymous identity parade consisting of not a single felon you can recognise. But then that isn't too difficult, cos it is...!!
Well done for this touching and poignant poem. It immediately brings to mind one's own photo albums, and the years that pass through it from era to era. Mine I find are too sad to contemplate for long however, so I never look at them any more. But you've captured everything that these objects of memory represent with a series of allusions to emotive snapshot images of time past. A life is lived out within these lines, and the real face book is here.

[Wicahpi]

great poem of old times.
old friends and happiness.

[The Analog Kid]

Great demonstration of real memories. Nice, GLP

[.]

that's a pleasant look at facebook and what it was really intended. Not all the inane status updates...etc..really good read

[Color Me Gone]

I agree with Globy-very engaging~

[Globy]

your life story, everybodys life story :)
So engaging... well writen :)

[Ruth]

Ahh, they will always remain in the heart, even when pages are curling up lol
Nostalgically moving hon
xx

[deeps]

cousins, children, and friends long gone
this face book is never ending,
adding new ones almost every day
once in my book, in my heart they'll stay

Love this part, This is a wonderful write.