Life’s statistics and
coordinates
Recorded as actions and
words;
Entries in neatly penned
diaries,
Quickly scrawled snippets
of paper
Uneven and ruffled around
the edges,
But with pertinent timings
or thoughts
Referenced and noted for
another time.
Tickets, maps, receipts and
photographs,
Prompt forgotten places
and dates,
Long after those days
have passed.
Diaries return good times in
recorded
Happenings, or spell out
disappointment.
Blank entries leave wonderment
about
Non-events or perhaps
unremarkable
Or unforgettable days,
when time was
Occupied by living the
moment.
Bundles of diaries
collected in boxes;
Interesting vignettes of a
tangible life lived.
©Copyright Eileen T O’Neill 22/02/2016
Where would we be without all these tangible records of our lives?
ReplyDeleteDelightfully evocative, Eileen.
This poem makes me wonder if you have kept a diary over the years. I did when I was a child, but not beyond that. Perhaps all of us who blog keep a kind of diary of our thoughts though. I do think it would be wonderful to have such a collection of diaries as you describe though...with tickets, tales of events and non events. One would really have a history of a life lived. I had an aunt who kept diaries for decades. I was able to read a few of them in her last years. However before she died she burned them all. This saddened me. I would have liked to have read them all.
ReplyDeletesometimes we prefer to keep some unforgettable moments in our memories than on the pages..."when time was / Occupied by living the moment." beautifully put Eileen...
ReplyDeleteNo doubt everything which we do in life is recorded.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully executed.
Lots of love,
Sanaa
I try to write regularly in my diary but more often than not it's days between entries.
ReplyDeleteNice poem, my friend. :-)
Our diaries has power, inspiration if we read them from time to time, so we always can observe what had worked in our life what not, and from there go maybe with better intent and result too. Important poem.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mary - the poetry, notes and photographs on our blogs are a type of diary - (something that has happened on a particular day that has given rise to a post). I haven't kept an actual diary in years, though I do take a lot of pictures, sketch occasionally, write (of course) and have several boxes of "keepsakes". A thoughtful poem, Eileen, well structured and wonderfully rendered!
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