Open Poetry #1 |
Everything's 99 cents |
armanca Member
since 1999-07-07
Posts 211Tennessee |
**this is a poem I found several years ago, and I hung onto it...thought I'd share it with everyone. -------------------------------------------- I'm a lovely girl And i have lovely toenails Paula says, "life is good." And I believe her, Although she's referring To Italian dressing. Life is good. I realized this months ago, Looking at pictures of dead people. Smiling, hugging, No one frowns for the camera. Despite their disappointing lives and drunken husbands, Only their happiness is recorded and remembered. So life is good; These people tell us so. I love being a lovely girl In a lovely world Where life is good A minority of one. Stick figures trapped in an ink and Paper world, measured by the blue lines and the blank quicksand, Like the photographs in a pile. Smiling roadkill. But life is good, Paula says so. by Sunny Haralson |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
You should enlist Sunny into the ranks. I like it. Thanks for sharing. ------------------ Sunshine Words will always express our feelings true. ~~~ KRJ Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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jennyanydots Junior Member
since 1999-07-09
Posts 15 |
i like this poem... |
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Seeking77 Junior Member
since 1999-07-09
Posts 24Irvine california |
I read this poem a few times over...very cute(if that's what I may call it?)I read this one to a friend and we had a good laugh...reminds me of a good reason to smile next time I feel like my life is over. Thank you! ------------------ JeNn AnNe >:) |
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armanca Member
since 1999-07-07
Posts 211Tennessee |
thanks sunshine, seeking, jenny..I appreciate your comments. |
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grasshopperess New Member
since 2005-07-11
Posts 1 |
hi, i wrote that poem in high school and i just found it again because i was bored and googled myself. it's really amazing and flattering to me that someone has kept track of it for 15 years. it kind of embarassed me at first, and now i think it's kind of cool.it's really touching when something you write or paint or whatever has an effect on a complete stranger. thank you. i registered to this site and now i'm really excited to read everyone's poetry. maybe it will inspire me to start writing it again. thanks, sunny |
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armanca Member
since 1999-07-07
Posts 211Tennessee |
Hi Sunny, It is nice to meet you, I still have the magazine article in my keepsake that the poetry was displayed in. I believe the magazine was "Sassy". Carman |
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dollmaker Member
since 2006-08-30
Posts 155mass dorchester |
that was quite something, i have never seen a poem with so much good use of irony. well written. from dollmaker |
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