Old is gold
and so's I'm told
Don't be in a hurry
to have all antiques sold
For this old adage
Todate water it holds.
Indeed the good old days
had some good old ways.
So I'd rather not exchange
old lamps for new
lest I suffer as in Aladdin's tale
and lose everything of value.
For if I lose my old lamps
I haven't a genie to restore my loss
Thus beware of modernism's shams
Don't let 'change' be your boss.
We should know what best be preserved
So olden values are granted the respect thus deserved.
For some 'olds' are such pure golds
that like gold they never fade nor catch moulds
Likewise some golden traditions are real treasures
that can't be left behind to the past generation
in exchange for surface new pleasures
For that would be soil, oops nooh, soul and culture erosion
Pray keep some olden golden customs from such corrosion!
Ah the old mores
they might seem such bores
but it's they who make
the best folklores!
The ideas expressed here are valid. Any individual or society that attempts dramatic and extreme change usually fails or has to suppress its people and one cannot clench their fist forever. Many products are poorly manufactured now with designed obsolescence and are ephemeral. A mix is good where appropriate. I write this comment on and I.phone 5 while sitting on my bed in a room with furniture more that 60 years old and still works well. Attitudes too and mores if they are valid keep them if hurtful and discriminatory ditch them.
Firstly, I agree with your points against Gulsher's arguments, I was born and grew up in a place where people used to respect and care about each other, but as I was growing up I noticed that things were changing and most of those changes has thrown humanity out the window... Love your poem and totally agree with the great message in it. Siya_! !
Beautiful poem! This is what I always believe! In the name of modernism, when we throw time tested values and modes of behaviour to the winds, the posterity will be in peril! Changes are inevitable and necessary, but for people of my generation old is always gold! ! Greatly enjoyed! !
u deserve all the trophies u won. i honestly envy u. got ur point and agree with u
......loved reading this one....you are definitely onto something...it's true the older things seem to last longer... and newer things break faster, cause they are made to break....think I will hold onto my old things and buy old things, too :)
An enjoyable piece; loved the concept of this poem; change, for the sake of change, is not always good; wisdom must always be applied in the daily decisions made; wonderfully conceived. -Joe Breunig, author/poet, Reaching Towards His Unbounded Glory
You are quite right. modernism has given us some horrible things which we want to forget. Nice words!
Todate water it holds...............to date? i wish my wife could take your advice and stop having parts of our house torn out and replaced with new! ! ! the old was good enough for me! thanks for sharing. :) bri
Good reading... poems that read like self informed can span bilingual gulfs with less or free syntax and personal relationships... Thanks Lee
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Very well, the starting shows how creativity is used in this work really nice