Be Choosy About Change! Poem by s.zaynab kamoonpury
Be Choosy About Change!
Old is gold
and so's I'm told
Don't be in a hurry
to have all antiques sold
For this old adage
Todate water it holds.
Indeed the good old days
had some good old ways.
So I'd rather not exchange
old lamps for new
lest I suffer as in Aladdin's tale
and lose everything of value.
For if I lose my old lamps
I haven't a genie to restore my loss
Thus beware of modernism's shams
Don't let 'change' be your boss.
We should know what best be preserved
So olden values are granted the respect thus deserved.
For some 'olds' are such pure golds
that like gold they never fade nor catch moulds
Likewise some golden traditions are real treasures
that can't be left behind to the past generation
in exchange for surface new pleasures
For that would be soil, oops nooh, soul and culture erosion
Pray keep some olden golden customs from such corrosion!
Ah the old mores
they might seem such bores
but it's they who make
the best folklores!
Very good idea. I found it myself by buying something because it was new, but the old one was much better. However, it was too late. This is how we learn for next time in everything.
Old is gold for certain period of time only and it has been override with new invention and ideas, but this poem is good and great to admire the old of recent days..
Some olden traditions r golden forever, old like gold n never fading.
......loved reading this one....you are definitely onto something...it's true the older things seem to last longer... and newer things break faster, cause they are made to break....think I will hold onto my old things and buy old things, too :)
An enjoyable piece; loved the concept of this poem; change, for the sake of change, is not always good; wisdom must always be applied in the daily decisions made; wonderfully conceived. -Joe Breunig, author/poet, Reaching Towards His Unbounded Glory
You are quite right. modernism has given us some horrible things which we want to forget. Nice words!
Todate water it holds...............to date? i wish my wife could take your advice and stop having parts of our house torn out and replaced with new! ! ! the old was good enough for me! thanks for sharing. :) bri
Good reading... poems that read like self informed can span bilingual gulfs with less or free syntax and personal relationships... Thanks Lee
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/23/2024 12:30:47 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Very well, the starting shows how creativity is used in this work really nice