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allan Senior Member
since 2000-04-09
Posts 620On the road 
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The church burns with life and the flames of a thousand candles Crowded to the doorway, I squeeze in & feel the power Outside, the streets are ribbons of mist Lost smiles miles behind doorways Along the streets buildings like fallen tombstones grey and dark, forbidding stretch endlessly Life goes on behind closed doors Bright life existing in warm living rooms across the city And in the parks & squares so many fountains dance playful among closed faces and the stares of shop staff grimly guarding empty shelves Drinking some weak nameless brew I stand with the helpless others at tiny table tops perched on pillars in some café And up to the castle strong & stark Through the Jewish quarter carved in two by the concrete knife of the proud new motorway And in the night Serious silence in the concert hall Dignified enjoyment of high ideals A proud nation awake to its culture Moving ever upward to an aesthetic dream And a Hostinec pulses into the darkness about to explode from singing within Bright gold sounds rebound on the dark pot-holed road And the air always is serene unmuddied by affluence grey, peaceful, cold, exquisite ragged edges of life survive not neatened or trimmed they sprout rudely everywhere delighting this alien tired of a tamed world Folk dances bright & joyous with costumes of passionate innocence revolve incongrous in a venue of graveyard grey and mausoleum dimensions And on the hill in the graveyard to the fallen dead towers the statue to the heroes the rescuers of the nation The Soviet soldier towers high over the town monument of subjection for a proud nation now trapped in time and space but bright lights still shine in strong hearts and creative forces grow unseen ever ready to melt the iron gates and open the prison doors... |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Allan, this is really good, but you should post in the Open Forum or the Pub....  |
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allan Senior Member
since 2000-04-09
Posts 620On the road |
Thanks! okay, I'll do that.  |
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