Safekeepers of Memories
Ago some decades back
Memorable moments in sacks
Pictures polaroid print
Manuscripts brown tint
Locked in albums, closet
No great gandfathers forget
Keys to the safe,passed
Generations downward
In elapsed era eventual
We built homes virtual
All memories in pixels hung
On walls Facebook, clung
And bits bytes MBs GBs
Of memories entrusted in PDs HDs
And the manuscripts now express
Etched vividy on WordPress
With a locked safe register
Of letters numbers special characters
Memories these will safely stay
To cherish during virtual walkway
Our rich history for futures revealed
By safekeepers, unconcealed
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-r prab.
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In response to Word-High July: 30 Beautiful Filipino Words: Habilin
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A nice punchy poem on a subject of preservation, which is often overlooked. Thanks for sharing
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Aha! I am so glad to hear you acknowledge it! Thank-you Luke. 🙂
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oh geez. a wise transition from old to the new keepsake techniques, prab! this left me nostalgic. 🙂
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Haha! Thank you Rosema! 🙂 You know, this weekend, I attended a talk on digital technology, so these things were prominently going on in my mind! The prompt brought it all out! 🙂
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Oooh. That is an interesting talk I guess!
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Oh, yes! 🙂
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Beautiful!
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Thank you ^_^
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awesome with the perfect picture! 🙂
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Thank-you so much 🙂
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Very interesting poem. Safe keeping things I always wonder is it better for them to be virtual or in some physical form. For instance, you can scrapbook pictures online but you can also physically do this in albums physically . I like doing it off line.
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Yeah, maintaining a real scrapbook has a charm of its own! 😃
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“Our rich history for futures revealed
By safekeepers, unconcealed”
~such beautiful lines here. 🙂
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Oh Thank you Maria! You know, these lines incorporate a thought of mine, in which I feel that our ancestor’s memories are locked somewhere in closet, and though some of them see light, we never know how many don’t. But we, virtual people will have our memories left in open, unconcealed. I find this idea very interesting! 🙂
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I’ve often had these same thoughts – not quite so eloquent – well done!!
I scrapbook, make virtual albums, have digital images and photo books printed….to what end? Momentary satisfaction? Physical visual bliss? If memories are preserved on an inanimate object, non-living object – if our images are preserved on artificial intelligence – does this diminish the beauty and grandeur of our lives? I wonder….
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Hmm.. I know what you mean, Personally I rely on having things in mind.. to live with it and tell it to everyone at right moments! 🙂
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Like many things, it’s all about timing! When I figure that out, I’ll be all set 😉
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