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Don_Juan
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Far from where I am going

0 posted 2004-08-08 02:28 PM


Deindorfer Park

a small child
curly brown hair and curious blue eyes
wearing a striped sweater
that his mother's love had sewn
He could have no more than 3 years
of life in his body
plays in the dirt by a swingset
proclaims and exclaims
"Mommy look what I made"
as he points to his hole

A teenager dressed in all red
spray paints an explicit symbol
across the trunk of a tree
laughs and smiles as a group of blue approaches
vulgar comments are slung through the air
as glock nine millimeters are drawn
bullets tossed carelessly through the air
as the boy in red runs
from the wooded are he had defiled

A small child
curly brown hair and blue eyes
wearing a striped sweater
that his mother's love had sewn
cries out with a tear drenched face
"Mommy help me"
as he falls face down
in his hole

A park
once green now stained with crimson
dotted with gray slate
and tears of mothers
who outllived and buried their children
is now a place of death
and stands as a testament
to the coldness
of a violent world


i wanted to try a new style to kind of change up my writing a little bit so i chose a sort of narrative poem format. Please give some comments to help me make this poem better.

nice use of muffin

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dodge_chick2003
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since 2004-01-18
Posts 136
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1 posted 2004-08-08 02:42 PM


I dont really know what to think right now. This poem was really sad, especialy for me my little brother and I were actually visiting in Flint Michigan and he got shot, but thankfully he survived. This poem was really good. Keep up the good work. (Some people might not know that you are talking about the bloods and the crypts thou)
Don_Juan
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2 posted 2004-08-09 12:41 PM


thank you for the comment. Yeah i looked at the poem after i wrote it and found that the group in blue could also mean the police. Thankfully you saw that it was the bloods and crips

nice use of muffin

*Alli4000*
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3 posted 2004-08-14 12:34 PM


Wow! How could only one person have replied to this poem so far?!  This poem was just so sad and depressing. The part that really got me crying was this:

"A small child
curly brown hair and blue eyes
wearing a striped sweater
that his mother's love had sewn
cries out with a tear drenched face
"Mommy help me"
as he falls face down
in his hole"

Great write.  I really enjoyed you writing in this style of poem.  Keep Writing!!!

~Alli~


I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughter would make me cry.

*Alli4000*
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4 posted 2004-08-31 08:40 PM


I am going to bump this up for you becasue I really liked this poem alot and I think that it should get more than two comments. JMHO though...  

~Alli~


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Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened...

Don_Juan
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Far from where I am going
5 posted 2004-08-31 11:08 PM


wow you definitley did pull this from the depths. thankyou very much for that kind gesture

nice use of muffin

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