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Open Poetry #47

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martiniat8
Senior Member

since 2003-06-21

Posts 897
Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic

0 posted 2011-06-13 04:07 PM

He returned from the 2 week adventure
and suddenly felt very alone

more alone in this city
than he has since his first arrival

that metro, that lonely lonely train
with the few passengers that looked at him
as though he was a poster,
an advertisement stuck on the window

or perhaps he was someone,
something to hold on to
when the train jolts, brakes and shifts
nooooo, that was in the past, surely...?

2 weeks, 14 days
he was wiping the slate clean
so he said
so he claimed

but he wondered
if everyone
in that time
had wiped the slate...

clean of him

the journey starts fresh, anew
with something borrowed
and someone blue...

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

1 posted 2011-06-16 02:43 AM

Enigmatic - and brilliant ending - you held me breathless throughout and beyond, oh Storyteller Par Excellence!

Owl

[This message has been edited by OwlSA (06-16-2011 03:57 AM).]

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2011-06-23 11:46 PM

Very nice...James

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