There Was No Place Like Home

How to Join	Member's Area	Private Library	Search	Sanctuary		Login
Main Forums	Discussion	Tech Talk	Mature Content	Archives	A home without a wall, Our haven without ends, A circle we all call Our Family of Friends!

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2011-08-14 05:13 PM

Broad clean swept streets and boulevards,
expansive well kept lawns like calling cards
announcing fulfillment of almost textbook dreams,
windows left half-lidded keeping out or keeping in
certainly normal human sin wrapped tastefully
against any prying breach of secrecy
beyond reach of all who never will belong,
debauchery beyond prosaic eyes' civility.
Well after all is said and done what good is community
that does not teach its young iniquity,
dry cleaned and neatly pressed insanity,
privately agreed upon depravity,
is best kept quietly within tidy little standards of corruption?

It was a place
where laws were meant for little people,
where street crime was when someone's daddy got caught
playing too fast and loose trading stocks and bonds
on inside information,
where marriage vows were flexible
as long as public image was protected,
where husbands chased endlessly after conquests and concubines
along the way acquiring toys and scheming fantasies of empire,
where wives spending lives as arm candy slowly lost their minds
mired in foggy kinds of past times,
desires laced with alcohol and friendly pharmaceuticals
and endless lines of hey-boys helping pass their empty days away.

©2011 by icebox

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2011-08-14 09:41 PM

You've been watching way too much
MadMen.

You know, Sir, that it is quite difficult
to remember my parents world, and their
sheltering arms
when I am sideswiped by reality.

But then, it was time I grew up, too.

Good work here.

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

2 posted 2011-08-14 10:31 PM

Thank you. I never knew "sheltering arms." I can not tell if I m better or worse for it. We all are the sum of our parts.

ebonygirl
Member Elite

since 2011-07-14

Posts 2000
California U.S.A

3 posted 2011-08-14 10:48 PM

Your poem makes a lot of sense,
enjoyed,
ebonygirl

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

4 posted 2011-08-16 01:38 PM

Masterful rendering of your impressions, dear Charly. Your scratching beyond the surface is very impressive.

Love,
Margherita

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

5 posted 2011-08-20 05:28 PM

Nicely done.

JL

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2011-08-20 11:30 PM

Just tell it like it was, Charley.
So few people do.
Ida

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

7 posted 2011-08-25 05:24 PM

Fine writing...James

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

8 posted 2011-08-25 06:15 PM

The more things change, the more...

tsk. You already know.

Stay safe. And yep, those blinds should be kept half-mast...like our eyes.

	⇧ top of page ⇧
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format.