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Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

0 posted 2008-09-05 03:48 PM

Here in our crowded,
slummy,
urban hood
the ground is fertile.

Some of our flowers
grow old,
like my next door neighbor
Bill,
who died yesterday morning.

He was a good,
hard working man,
who raised a big family
of good people.

Then there’s my friend Bones
from long ago,
a flower cruelly plucked
before his time.

All our flowers are beautiful here.

Bobby

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2008-09-05 04:34 PM

This is great, that you compare your friends to flowers, dear Bobby. And I do not doubt that they fully deserve this tribute.

I can feel you are in total harmony with your place and your people.

Love,
Margherita

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

2 posted 2008-09-05 05:25 PM

Hello Bobby, the poem conveys sadness and beauty...thank you for the well written sensitive poem...

regards

yann

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3 posted 2008-09-05 07:19 PM

Thanks dear Margherita,

Yes, we all have our histories here, and we know it. That allows us to be together on most everything.

We're lucky.

Love Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4 posted 2008-09-05 07:20 PM

Thanks Yann,

I'm very pleased you saw the poem that way.

Bobby

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

5 posted 2008-09-07 03:07 AM

I like that flowers grow in the hood, Bobby. Human ones and ones in small gardes, both make me smile.

A

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2008-09-07 04:16 AM

Bobby, this is a beautiful poem written with a sad, loyal anger. Whilst I understand (in as far as one can feel another's anguish), I wish I - or anyone else - could take the edge off that anger and cynicism, and see those shoulders drop, and a slow, deep smile spread over your face at some simple natural beauty - even if just for a moment . . .

- Owl

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

7 posted 2008-09-07 09:17 AM

Thanks dear Alison,

For the kind words on this effort. Yes, we have beautiful flowers here.

Love Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

8 posted 2008-09-07 09:20 AM

Yo OwlSA,

Where did you ever come up with the idea that people from the hood don't smile and laugh.

I smile and laugh all the time, and so do my neighbors.

Bobby

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

9 posted 2008-09-07 07:51 PM

That's not what I said.

- Owl

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

10 posted 2008-09-07 10:13 PM

Yo dear Owl,

What is so unnatural about people? I think people are beautiful. I smile at them all the time. I'm going to my next door neighbor’s funeral tomorrow morning. I hope to make some sad people smile, and I plan to smile myself.

You can't change me, and no one else can. I'm city. I've had bad experiences in the country. I try not to visit there. I don't want to smell the roses.

Bobby

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

11 posted 2008-09-08 12:10 PM

Your poems show clearly your love for your neighbor. Nothing greater. Joyce

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

12 posted 2008-09-08 09:35 AM

Thanks dear Joyce,

For the very kind words reguarding my poems. I'm pleased you feel that way.

Love Bobby

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