All Our Yesterdays Poem by Tom Billsborough
All Our Yesterdays
What if tomorrow became yesterday
And yesterday tomorrow
The future behind us
And of no consequence
And we caught forever
In the thick webs of nostalgia
As vague memory becomes
Relived reality.
Would we then banish Time's illusion
As a recreated past became our present?
What if we could choose our specific moments:
First love, youth, a favourite holiday.
Think of the expense we'd save!
Could we make improvements
To that first experience?
Undo words regretfully said
Or the cruel consequence
Of unwitting acts.
I need to explore this further.
recently. It was very thought provoking indeed so I just wrote this speculative piece. Probably nonsense. But if anyone wants to choose a moment from the past they would like to relive, maybe write a poem about it. It would be interesting to read other members' choices.
Time is always a mystery either it is future or even when it be the past, the words and thought they are combined as one concrete strong poem... Judith must have a great pen to inspire u this piece... As sweet as pie... Wisdom at the center!
Yes, her poem was brilliant. Nice to hear from you again. Glad you liked it. Tom
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/24/2024 9:19:34 PM # 1.0.0.1119
My dear Tom, this is very philosophical and so incredibly well-written. You can handle the most difficult topics for a poem that I have ever heard of and yet you pull it off with poetic ease and your own special warmth and gentle intelligence. For me, my friend, I do not want tomorrow to become yesterday, not now, not ever. The present is suspended and while that is not a happy thing neither is it a horrid thing. There are moments in my past that I could relive but if one had any idea of what was coming while reliving that moment? Then I would say no to reliving the most happy moments.. You ask incredible questions in this, quite thought provoking. 10 of course
It was inspired by one of Judith Blatherwick's poems and also the recent prevalence on British TV of rather maudlin Nostalgic costume dramas which gave a totally false and sentimentalised vision of life. I wondered if our own memories might be equally untrustworthy or, if we could relive past events in actuality exactly as they occurred. It's a subject I'm still considering. I must agree with you about the present. In a sense it is true whereas reliving the past could be tainted by the gloss we may put on it. May write further using your intelligent observation, if you don't mind. Tom