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junemac
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since 2003-04-24
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uk

0 posted 2003-06-04 03:10 AM


please excuse this as i posted by accident on the open poetry 26 last night. i meant to post it here as it is you my friends i wished to share it with,

hugs from june xxxxxxxxxxxxx

In cornflaked coloured cardigan
Hair matted and iron grey
Shuffling along aimlessly
She haunts the streets by day

Dragging a battered trolley
Its shade is long forgotten
Shiny from all the layers of grime
threadbare along the bottom

She seems intent to study her path
Sifting through tangles of litter
Stooping to rescue tiny scraps
Of anything that seems to glitter

They laugh at her and call her names
Cruel to this wizzened old lady
No one seems to care at all
Or question why she is crazy

Long ago when things looked bleak
Life had nothing left to give her
She heard someone say if she looked hard enough
every cloud was lined with silver

So every dawn her quest begins
For as long as the sun remains shining
Her crooked old body just trundles along
In search of her silver lining.


© Copyright 2003 june macfarlane - All Rights Reserved
midnightblues
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since 2000-07-01
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1 posted 2003-06-04 10:02 AM


Dear June,

i enjoyed this.....the sadness too

Love
Michelle

If there cannot be equal in affection, then let the one with more be me - midnightblues™

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2 posted 2003-06-04 11:18 AM


This is adorable, touching and well written.  Every life has a story and is worthwhile just as you are saying.  Thanks for posting it here.  Joyce
junemac
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3 posted 2003-06-04 04:19 PM


oh thank you Michelle and Joyce for reading and commenting. yes it is so sad that often people dont really know or care about other peoples lives and why they are who they are.

hugs from june xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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