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JulieAnn Senior Member
since 2000-06-12
Posts 754Earth 3rd Rock from the sun!! 
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losts souls wander aimlessly through these desolate streets under the neon lights sleeping cold and damp through the night though we don't see we know they are there can't comprehend so we pretend and move along without a care the city blankets them with dust and smog as they try to fight through the endless night we don't venture there for we don't want to know what the daylight doesn't show Julie :) |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
Julieann, I remember getting a bus through Dublin when I was working there last summer, and sleeping under the porch/pillars of a Church were a group of homeless people. I wondered how our society especially our country who have in recent years being celebrating ecomonic boom could allow this to continue. A powerful poem, wonderfully written. This is an issue that needs to have more attention brought to it. A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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Ethan Halo Senior Member
since 2000-04-28
Posts 793on the roof again |
very mysterious and forbodding. it reminds me of the city i live in (Las Vegas). there are some things out there that we are better off knowing (or thinking) don't exist. we're just not ready for them. but that does change the fact that things lie in the dark. and they aren't goin away.< !signature--> We all got somethin' we need to atone for. [This message has been edited by Ethan_Halo (edited 06-21-2000).] |
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Franni Junior Member
since 1999-07-02
Posts 39 |
Wonderful protest poem. I like your imagery "the blanket of dust and smog" Well done. Franni |
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OLIAS Senior Member
since 2000-06-20
Posts 1090Pearl city Iowa |
I agree with B.M. I think we often turn a blind eye to issues we dont want to face, but this is all around us every day, your poem has made me think, well done, ( I dont think very often) Olias |
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CMGrimm Senior Member
since 2000-02-14
Posts 685USA |
Great job Julieann....I liked this one... chris Never be a carbon copy of anybody...make your own impressions. - ANON. |
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