dVerse Poets – Meet The Bar – Final Couplet
Frank at dVerse has invited us to write a poem, but which must end with a rhyming couplet.
Photo: foster.vic.au
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” Marcel Proust
Fiction
The fetish of nostalgia reeks
like overripe banana in
an open bin on a hot day,
vanguard of decay in this
haunt of demons
waiting to persuade me,
to humiliate proud memories
that now enter the picture
distorted by time’s passing,
exposed hubris,
a repressive fiction
needing confessional diminution,
awaiting with shreds of contrition.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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A very nice couplet! The fetish of nostalgia… I guess it really is..
That trailer looks like it has been well used!!
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I’m not sure I’d take that one out 🙂
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I like the thoughts and descriptions “to humiliate proud memories” and “vanguard of decay” and ” confessional diminution”.
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I had such a mass of thoughts, it was a really engaging process for me, thank you for sharing the part that grabbed you.
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Well, so much for memories!! A dark side of nostalgia.
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Ouch!
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🙂 indeed, I couldn’t not.
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😀
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This is true.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Most appreciative of the time you take to read and reblog, thank you Charles.
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Time well spent!!! Always a pleasure to read and share your posts with followers, Paul!! Have a great day!
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Oh yes… what we remember is not how it was… we always view it with a view of the present.
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Yes, we remember it as we are, we make the world in our own image.
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“The fetish of nostalgia” what an evocative phrase!
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I often feel that we get stuck in the past if we’re not alert. Nothing wrong with reminiscing, but even our culture is hooked on retro. I guess I see nostalgia as a risk. Thanks for that Punam.
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My husband often says nostalgia does not let us move ahead! So this truly resonated. You are welcome, Paul.
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Yes, I see some who are indeed held back, thank you for sharing that Punam.
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very clever use of words
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Thank you Lyn.
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