How Times Have Changed

How times have changed, as I remember
As a boy I would be fascinated for hours
Playing records on the old wind up gramophone
And twiddling the knobs of my Grandfather's
Radio receiver, with it's large valves glowing
And giving out hums and squeals as I turned
The dial backwards and forwards.

As a teenager, I grew up watching television
And listening to my stereogram, playing all the
Latest songs of the time.
In my adult years, I would watch images from
The new colour television and quadraphonics
Stereo, which was the latest thing around.

I am now middle age, with all this behind me
As technology has changed, with computers,
Video machines and compact disk players;
How I preferred the earlier times, where life
Was a lot more simpler place to be.
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Posted: Nov 2012
About this poem:
One of my earlier poems, it tells of how times have changed in retrospect. it reflects different phases of my life.

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Comments (1)

mcradloff
I too harken back to a simpler time, when tv was free. CDs came out in 1985, I didn't buy my first one till 1999 as I could get tapes down at the pawn show fro a qaurter to two bucks. The money I've spent on the new technology is quite a pile since a vcr/dvd player only lasts a year or two. My old Zenith lasted 11 years.daydream listen to music reindeer
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