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faithmairee
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since 2011-01-05
Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA

0 posted 2011-02-21 02:08 AM



painted lady laughing
longing for a ticket
to take a roller coaster ride
with memories of a
long lost lover
once aboard the
riverboat queen
who was swept
out to sea


she cries out
inaudible screams
hearing only words of
drunken sailor's dreams
while twilight brings
her promise of
a new day all she feels
is loneliness and pain

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

© Copyright 2011 Faith Elizabeth Brigham - All Rights Reserved
JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
1 posted 2011-02-21 08:29 AM


I used to hang out at a place called the Sampan Lounge in New Orleans on Exchange Alley which catered to merchant marines and their lovers, etc. This poem puts me back there as I tried my best to console the sad women left behind as their men shipped out to sea.

~ Life is sexually transmitted ~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
2 posted 2011-02-21 08:39 AM


more heartache, done well Faith.
Lori

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825
by the sea
3 posted 2011-02-21 10:59 AM


this is exquisite, trying to forget something, changing ideas with all solutions to abandon sadness...I loved it and the atmosphere of it...

yann

faithmairee
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since 2011-01-05
Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA
4 posted 2011-02-21 12:23 PM


JerryPat-That is amazing to hear that you actually experienced this...i also had New Orleans on my mind when I wrote this one...so that is uncanny...

Lori-Thank you for your comments, Lori and for being here.

Yann-Thank you so much for your wonderful remarks.  I appreciate them so much.

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

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