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Open Poetry #27

Village Fool I

ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

Posts 3923
my own state

0 posted 2003-07-17 09:42 PM

Started from way up high...the village fool
out of reach from any common stool
with a hammer, a nail and a piece of shoe
knocked a piece of sole right through...

that fell down again into the house
shtetl high sloped roof, charcoal grey shingled
close homes surrounded squares..gentry mingled
to watch the fool on the roof, not on a hill
knock in a nail and then take a spill...

The wife soon clambered up a wooden ladder
after the two siblings, she'd gotten fatter
and her ire had gotten worse
as the husband consumed the family purse
here he had settled into a popular fate
a test of the devotion to his familiar mate

So he descended from the house's crown
to the dismay of his wife who bore a frown
and said Sarah "I'll need a new life for myself,
the city offers promise, I can go nowhere else".

She packed him a roll of rye bread and fresh meat
and the fool from the shtetl roof walked his beat
carbon covered roofs he'd leave behind
soon to discover what could be heaven's design.

continuing

[This message has been edited by ecrivan (07-17-2003 10:10 PM).]

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2003-07-17 09:45 PM

At first you had me thinking
of Tevye...
for good reason!

I shall await the continuation...

Jason Lyle
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since 2003-02-07

Posts 1438
With my darkling

2 posted 2003-07-17 09:47 PM

Nice writing, I await part 2.

Jason

ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

Posts 3923
my own state

3 posted 2003-07-17 11:11 PM

Karilea and Jason

there is a lot of the fiddler setting here,

you have parts ll and lll

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2003-07-18 03:29 AM

I have to put these in my library and keep them together, I may have to print them all out to read at work...

~shadows dance by the light within~

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