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Tim Senior Member
since 1999-06-08
Posts 1794 |
With tattered clothes and vacant eyes he sat alone amid the pigeons in the park. Furrowed brow and greying beard; down his cheek a tear. A child approached and with the inquisitiveness of youth, asked, "Why?" He got up and walked away. |
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redwriter1 Member
since 1999-07-22
Posts 480Franklin, TN |
maybe you could elaborate? |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
sounds like a thought on futility and frustration |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Tim, That was a good question. I would ask the same. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
I think I understood this one...sometimes it is easier to live with ourselves if we don't have to explain ourselves too anyone. When faced with questions we can't answer, sometimes it is easier to just walk away than to face the simple truth. Am I close?? ------------------ "Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
Leave us hanging now...I thought this was kinda sad. I think sometimes if open up and not walk away it may help us! You have left a good question. Lots of things to go through one's mind. Definitely a thinker! |
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Tim Senior Member
since 1999-06-08
Posts 1794 |
Not trying to be obtuse... but sometimes there is no answer... sometimes no question... sometimes things just are and what we read into them is a reflection of ourselves... I happen to see isolation... but that was not the point... the point is it doesn't answer... that is for the reader to do.... |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Ah, very good, Tim! I see constant futility in the man (who wants to answer any more darn questions!?!) and as we all know, a youth will continue to ask "Why?", even when all of the answers have been given. Well done, sir! ------------------ Sunshine Words will always express our feelings true. ~~~ KRJ Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
...though you aren't being obtuse, Tim - Life certainly is just that, isn't it?? Nicely done - of course  |
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poetFemmeFatale Member Elite
since 1999-07-25
Posts 2646Arkansas |
Oh how fascinating - how you took a brief moment, and created a vividly sad story....and left us to cry for him...and wonder. ------------------ I beckon you to come...I lure you with my tongue... - poet FemmeFatale |
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