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gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

0 posted 2009-03-02 06:17 AM

Dang, Silas,
this isn’t my set;
it’s yours,
but I’m here,
watching,
looking at a movie,
munching,
drinking,
wondering,
and all the while,
you’re
lying in the grave.

I wonder if
it’ll be working
after I’m gone.

I hope so, Bro,
I hope so.

Bye, big man;
see you later.

gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

1 posted 2009-03-02 06:23 AM

Silas Stepp, Little all American basketball player, University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV). Little? It's just a designation, of course. He was 6'9" and his heart was bigger than his tallness.

art

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

2 posted 2009-03-02 07:49 AM

Dear Arthur Chapman jr., Poet, you have written a piece with great impact, I would say.

I wonder about this too sometimes. Now they even make advertising with actors who have moved on long ago. Miracle of technological evolution.

This is fantastic!

Love,
Margherita

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3 posted 2009-03-02 08:21 AM

Yo Art,

I like this poem. It's got heart.

Bobby

gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

4 posted 2009-03-02 04:06 PM

Thank you, dearest Margherita, your loving kindness is a beacon in the night along dark and uncertain shores. It is a gift, heaven sent.

art

gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

5 posted 2009-03-02 04:09 PM

And thank you, Bobby. You have a big heart as well, and it is expressed in the poems you write.

Your friend,

art

LindsayP
Member Elite

since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

6 posted 2009-03-03 09:18 PM

A sad poem that touches the heart strings

Art. I have two grandsons that are champion
Basket Ballers, one is six foot seven, the

other six two. It's a great sport for young people. Take care my friend.

Lindsay

tao power
Member

since 2009-02-24

Posts 109

7 posted 2009-03-04 02:21 PM

I liked this poem better when I didn't know who Silas was. I like to read it as a person feeling guilty for going on with the daily humdrum of life after the death of a friend. It's an emotion I can more closely relate to.

i like how this poem isnt bogged down in pseudo-poetics and stunted by overwrought rhymes. it's all heart. it's a very good poem.

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