Pictures

All these pictures
They all hold different memories
Different emotions

I stare at the past
And it stares back
Wondering where the time has gone

The smiles in all the pictures
Bring back the memories
Of a past well spent

Moments frozen in a picture
People I don't speak too anymore
Hold me in a warm embrace completely unaware

Girls who called me friend
Smile with me
Unknowing of the future

The first boy I loved
Holds me tightly as though nothing would ever go wrong
Not knowing it would all fall apart

Moments
Frozen in time
Will go unchanged
No matter how many times I look at them 

Author's Note

WRITERS BLOCK!! I have total writers block so I just wrote this hoping it would inspire something. Please let me know if it's ok i'm really not fishing for compliments I just feel stuck in place.

Reviews

[Anicca]

I love this. It made me happy, it made me sad, it made me worried, it made me carefree. I think my emotions were as varied as those in the photographs. I loved the line 'hold me in a warm embrace completely unaware', this made the whole poem for me. Brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

[Coyote Poetry]

I like the old photos. Can take you back to good times and people. A very good poem. I wish I took more photos today. I have few pictures of precious people I miss. A very good ending to a outstanding poem.
Coyote

[Alicia™]

I can relate to this poem so much that it's strange. Wonderful poem…

[Calypso]

What pictures are amazes me. It amazes me that they can capture an image forever. I enjoyed this by the way.

[Norma M Sutton]

Actually this is good. It catches me at a time when I'm cataloging a lot of old family photos, extended family photos going back 100 years or more. Make sure you label those pictures now. You think you will always remember who they are, but there may come a day when you don't or when you are gone and your children won't know who they are. That is what I'm running into. Photos from my dad's mom's side of the family without labels. Now my dad is gone and only 2 of his siblings are left living and both are a long ways from me.

[reminder]

Very touching and thoughtful! I love the observations!

[HopelesslyDevoted]

doesn't sound like you have writers block. pretty good poem, i like it. :)

[KATHY SUE SILLS]

Inspired or not this was a good write! Pictures or our memories frozen in time!

[KAREN]

Writer's block, are you sure? because this was great, pictures hold a spot in all our hearts!

[Linear]

Well this was very good, it's a fact that our personal pictures hold moments frozen in time, of younger days, sometimes happy days memories stirred from the dust of times long gone will so often bring a tear to once dried eyes, you wrote it so well