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Open Poetry #47

Distance

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

0 posted 2011-06-02 03:11 PM

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If you were next door
I would visit you

Gladly come over
To borrow some sugar
Spend an hour or two
With nothing better to do
Raking your autumn lawn

If you were
Across the street
We could congregate
See what verbs
We might then conjugate
Develop new words
By which to celebrate
In collaboration
Tongue to tongue

But being as you’re on
The other side of town
With all those grown
Children still at home
It makes things
Far less halcyon
Than they might
Have been before

So perhaps
I’ll call you
On the cell
When I’m not busy
With other chores

Chat about weather
The passing
Of another year

And neither us
Nineteen anymore

.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2011-06-02 03:16 PM

This so understated that it is chilling. I understand completely.

~ Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock ~

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

2 posted 2011-06-04 04:56 AM

This has great impact, dear John. It is in a way haunting ...

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