WORLDS APART!

This is very moving Jenny. So eloquently put into words. ;)Pia

An interesting piece Jenny. A bit cryptic for me… A happy childhood, part of an extended family, contrasted with today’s loneliness? Yet what does “on the threshold of a new beginning I was carried on that faithful day” allude to? Was it when you left your home in Somerset Terrace? Where you have - “so then why! did those sweet feelings change?” I’d be tempted to go for : So then why! Why, did those sweet feelings change? “desperation wondering what might have been, suspicion building lost locked in dispassionate dispute, I will never know the answers!” I’m not sure we even know the questions :O) Yet, overall, a powerful piece and perhaps all the better for its mysteries.

new skinner_jennifer h! jenny, An explosive sound of feelings here, phones gone again so have leave seat answer.Maybe lot's of disappointments here. Suspense life and family. I can identify with, so much in different ways, almost as if you wrote the poem for me? Or maybe loss somewhere or of destruction. Or was something demolished? 3rd stanza So then why! did those sweet feelings change! stiriing emotions linger bitter-sweet, casting theri shadows like ghosts, I am suddenly invisible...others do not see, the pain an suffering inside of me! julie xx

Thanks for the explanation Jenny! It’s rare that mysteries are explained so quickly :O) It's good to hear that you managed to end up friends with your ex!

new skinner_jennifer Sorry jenny, I may have interrupted wrong. I to get confused on word make it rhyme for a poem. So don't always answer, or give correct comment.Hope all goes well for you. I think to, sometime the mind is complicated thing if we sometimes go back in time, some feel it inside. Bit like a horror film depends doen't it. every day someone somewhere is deeply rooted inside don't you think. take care julie xx

I thought this was a good but sad poem about change. I thought it was a well written confessional sort of poem in which you explore the idea of emmotional and physical change. The first two stanza's vividly describe the world of memory. Standing staring at vacant space amid the mixed memories... jangle in my head, contrasting emotions at my door... watching silently as on a film, my own private world floods my mind... days started lost in wonder, kisses sweet as cherry pie from another time another place, on the threshold of a new beginning I was carried on that faithful day, jocular times...ceilidh merrymaking families locked together steadfast never wavering...always resolute, I like the way that the next two stanzas contrast with the first two, switching from happinesss and closeness to distance/seperateness. Changes within the poem expressing the theme of change. so then why! why, did those sweet feelings change? stirring emotions linger bitter sweet... casting their shadows like ghosts, I am suddenly invisible...not able to speak, my doors are closed...others do not see the pain and suffering inside me, desperation wondering what might have been, suspicion building lost locked in dispassionate dispute, I will never know the answers! And I really liked the last stanza that linked emmotional change/change within human relationships to wider/physical changes. A world forever turning...changing bricks and mortar are gone, once my father said...'a labour of love' now no more an area of beauty, leafy lanes gone to dust... all that's left are the memories of another time together with a sign that proclaims Somerset Terrace.

It's all been said, Jenny, and I'm sorry I have come so late to it...but in a way, it was an advantage, so that I could read your explanation of the story behind it. Very poignant, and very well written. Well done;-) Tina