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AncientHippie
Member

since 2009-10-15

Posts 411
Surfing the Cosmic Flow

0 posted 2009-11-02 10:33 AM

The park,
an oasis of green calm
threatened by a desert
of office towers,
was the place,
favoured
by the avatars
of the fiscal god Chaos,
for a quick lunch
and smoke.

Precisely
at one-o-five
he would shamble
to his special bench,
across from the
pigeon toilet
that resembled
Robbie Burns,
and sorted contents
of the green bin
into three piles:
lunch, refund cans and bottles,
and unusables.

He shared
his recycled,
second-hand lunch
with pigeons, sparrows, squirrels,
and the odd curious seagull.
His guests were
frequently frightened away
by the strength and violence
of his repeated cough,
as his tuberculosis
brought this urban
Saint Francis of Assisi
daily closer
to his lonely martyrdom.

From "Anger in the Street" series

"We are stardust: we are golden: and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden." --Joni Mitchell "Woodstock"

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2009-11-02 11:12 AM

Jim, I am going to take some time to read all of your series'. I'm a bit rushed right now but the poems I've read so far have been touching.

I know I will enjoy your work.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2009-11-02 12:22 PM

I really emjoy your unique view of the world, Ancient Hippie.
Ida

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

3 posted 2009-11-03 03:07 AM

This reminds me of my trips to New York City, San Francisco, Seattle and so many other places. This reminds me of my own small town America.

A

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

4 posted 2009-11-03 04:25 AM

thanks Jim, there is passion in this poem and generosity, the vivd portrait is upsetting for the reader and touchs indeed...compassion is important to my eyes.

thanks for the poem

yann

AncientHippie
Member

since 2009-10-15

Posts 411
Surfing the Cosmic Flow

5 posted 2009-11-03 01:44 PM

PS Thank you.  I am so glad that you are taking the time to read my work.  I sometimes feel very alone in my philosophy.

Marchmadness:  and a very great pleasure to share my view with you. Thank you.

Alison:  I try to capture poetic black and white snapshots of what I see.  Thank you for reading.

Yann;  Thank you.  It is my pleasure.
Namaste
Jim

"We are stardust: we are golden: and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden." --Joni Mitchell "Woodstock"

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