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Scott Sherman - 11.05.2002

Yesterdays that cast no shadow,
Photos that bring fond memories...
Places still living long after my path has left them.
Vibrant and flowing,
Just like I see them
Now in photographs:
Memories of yesteryears
Cast no shadow.

Eras long gone that lasted mere seconds,
Seconds ago, but gone all the same,
Frozen in time within two colorful dimensions,
Which multiply in depth with sweet memories' touch.
No shadow is cast,
But impressions are left,
I'll never forget the ones I love,
The places I hold dear.

One by one, photos remind me
Of the treasures I've found
And let fall away.
The memories linger,
I had my treasure and left it
For others to cherish....
To place into photographs,
To hold dear in the mind:
One frozen instance;

Imagination adds tangents,
The people and places
Still vibrant and flowing:
A leaf frozen in space
Falls to water in thoughts,
A stiff urban landscape
Roars with life in the minds eye,
Friends and I laugh together still
At a moment long gone...
Photographs,
Imagination,
Memories:
Yesterdays that cast no shadow.

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Information About This Piece:
  I had been awake for over twenty hours on the morning I started this poem. I had just finished working on a research paper that had been several weeks in the making and was due at 9:25 AM that day. Since I was far too tired to get up from my cozy desk chair (actually a camping recliner), I celebrated by staring at my screensaver, which displays a random slideshow of my pictures. The sequence of pictures that morning was very odd. Out of over one-thousand pictures, only four of them were taken during Havdallah services, all of which displayed themselves in a ten minute period interspersed with pictures of people involved in the corresponding youth group events. Not a single one of my landscape shots or family pictures interrupted the show. As I witnessed that beautiful slideshow, the first few lines of "Slideshow" floated into my mind. I wrote most of it during breakfast and, on the advice of many friends and peers, got some rest before finishing it at lunch.
  Thank you to all of my friends! No matter how well or how little I know some of you, no matter how long I've known any of you, thank you for making me the person I am today.
                  -12.23.2002

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