Old Black & White
Bygone worlds
Monochrome, tonal
Silver tinted realities
Printed in black, gray and white
Shading into darkness
Frozen faces
in two-dimensional worlds
Lost lives
Locked forever
In the odd frame
Of this huge book
Stark photos
Of bygone realities
Young and vigorous
Long since passed away
Images of time oblivious
Faces and names
Contorted in action
Forever captured
Imprison
Still
Flattened upon these pages
Lost between the lines
Feint traces and echoes
And the oblivion of death
Resounding from the frozen silence
by Hugh M. Lewis
Seasons
Odd Ends: Perennial Poesy along the Way
2006
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