Jun 292012
Time there was
When their impotent friendship
Gave birth to our virile comity
Their dying embers
Fanned our blossoming association
We lost them
But we found us
Time there was
When our sins with them
Cradled our repentance with us
Their hell
Begot our heaven
They ended
We started
Time there was
When we had
What we wanted
But craved for
what we had lost
Time there was
When we craved to lose
What we had
And regain
What we had lost
Time there was
When all we had
Was time
And all time had
Was us.
(Inspired by the song “The Times they are a-changin” by Bob Dylan).
Dude, honestly speaking this piece is . . . Good. But… I’ll like to see you write and develop ur own poem not inspired by someone’s else work. Something that will have it’s originality rooted in you.
I’m an avid fan of your’s and I follow all your writeup but you seem to have this trend of . . . Of . . . Somehow developing your works from people’s own.
Don’t get me wrong dude, just an observation I think you should work on and maybe let’s see what is gonna happen.
Peace Bro. Wonderful piece you’ve got here.
Many thanks @Louis for your kind words.
To address your observation and suggestion, kindly note that all my poems have their “originality rooted” in me and not in someone else’s works. Just as people who are artistically inclined have their muse that inspires them to create their works, rock music is merely my muse that inspires me to write poetry.
I also believe that the title of a work of art is just as important as the work itself. Hence, the title should grab the reader first before the content or substance of the work. So, when I listen to rock songs and in the process, I get inspired to write a poem or a particular rock song helps in coordinating the scattered thoughts in my head into a poem, the title of the song automatically becomes the title of my poem. I have been doing this since 1997.
It might also interest you to know that the themes of my poems usually don’t have any relation with the themes of the rock songs that inspired them.
I hope the above explanation has helped put this in perspective. Many thanks again for your kind words.
I like the times mentioned here. Nice poem.
yea, times are changing but our society and government especially refuses to change- may God help us- calls for sober reflection