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Open Poetry #50

only children sleep

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

0 posted 2017-01-28 06:02 PM

Only the children sleep at night,
The poets console their rhymes,
The masons fall from ladders,
The bosses collect euros.

They sleep in limbo blues,
In the clouds which murmur,
The children think of sheeps,
of boats and of small bears.

Only the women know how to dream,
They caress the small cats,
They breast-feed stars,
The children listen to them at night.

Bluesy Socrateaser
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since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

1 posted 2017-01-28 06:21 PM

Your poetry always pleases yann. I'm especially fond of these lines:

quote:
Only the women know how to dream,
They caress the small cats,
They breast-feed stars

C'est magnifique!

...just bein' Bluesy

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2017-01-28 06:45 PM

I'm with Bluesy on those three lines.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

tracie66
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since 2000-01-18

Posts 4713
Australia

3 posted 2017-01-29 04:59 AM

well penned, I enjoyed this immensely

Love is the life of the soul...
It is the harmony of the universe
— W. E. Channing

jjote
Senior Member

since 2002-12-25

Posts 1088
Ontario, Canada

4 posted 2017-01-30 10:56 PM

This is so lovely, reading it is like singing a lullaby too.

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

5 posted 2017-01-31 12:56 PM

thanks tracie and jjote for appreciating this sweet penning
yann

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

6 posted 2017-03-02 05:46 PM

enjoyed reading...james

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

7 posted 2017-03-14 07:36 AM

So true, yann.

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