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As the stories unfold
Pried from time’s
Stranglehold
Bit by bit
You’ll behold
What the fingers
Of old
Would have seen
Could have told.
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It does make you wonder, oh the stories.🙏😊
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Oh, the stories indeed! 🙂
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Interesting…
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I hope this means you liked it, rather than that it sort of flopped for ya. 😉
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No, I mean it got me thinking.
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Ah! Thank you for clarifying! The photo got me thinking, too, which led to this … 🙂
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What the fingers could have told – fresh images there. This has a soft and haunting feel about it in its simplicity, blended with depth of meaning. Nicely done!
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Thank you Jilly! 🙂 There is indeed that reverence in the holding, which was what got me thinking …
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Intriguing! The mysteries that come unearthed are always fascinating. Nicely done.
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Thank you! For indeed it is most of it a mystery, isn’t it? 🙂
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I love the idea of sharing thoughts with the ancients simply by finding a shard of pottery!
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Indeed … and isn’t that part of the fascination of archeology and what keeps people digging in the dirt, under the hot sun and in the cold wind, for days and weeks on end? It made me wonder, hence the poem … 🙂
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Yes, very good!
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🙂
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Threads stretching through time linking us with past people. I love this poem and the idea. Just think, one day we may put something down for that last time and someone we’ve never met years from now will find it and guess about our lives.
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Exactly! And we can wonder–what would THEY wonder about when they look at some of what we left behind …
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I guess I better start the dishes then 😉
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Haha yes, can’t have future generations finding our dirty washing up! 😂
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Stories being told… I can almost imagine the campfire telling
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Exactly! 🙂
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They could have solved may of our mysteries about them if they could speak now.
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Very much so!
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I like the connections to humans past by touching what other lives have touched.
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So true!
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I’m reminded of sea glass that I’ve collected in Bermuda….and shards of old ceramic with a bit of pattern on them….I hold them and wonder where they were, how long have they been tossed about in the sea? Whose lips touched this glass? Was it perhaps once lifted in a toast?
It’s the wondering….stories untold.
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So true! I have some sea glass that a friend had gifted me after she collected it and whenever I see it I, too, think of the stories those hold. Exactly my thoughts as per the pottery piece and other archeological findings. Thank you for this lovely comment and the analogy to sea glass.
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