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Open Poetry #14

Shadows at the Window

Professor Gloom
Member Elite

since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2001-07-03 06:59 AM

I could not watch again,
The flaunting of my pain,
You in curtained candlelight
Me just a shadow of the night

What passes through glasses tonight?

Can shadows hide a flaming heart,
Does beauty know that’s just a part.
Preening hair she’s just awaking,
With each movement I’m breaking

There’s a noise in the shadows

You entertain for cash,
And they think you just trash,
Me just a chance location
To witness your vocation.

What passes through glasses tonight?

It’s a quiet section
Money made selection,
Just an alleyway’s dark door
Stairway to the second floor.

There’s a move in the shadows

Drinking my cash away,
All that’s left from the day,
Thoughts travel from, through and to glass,
The mirror shows another goes past.

Stereos and T.V.s compete
With the full clatter of the street
There’s no refuge to be found
In the poorer parts of town.

Gloom

RSWells
Member Elite

since 2001-06-17

Posts 2533

1 posted 2001-07-03 07:29 AM

Section eight housing affords no privacy that's for sure. Lack of air conditioning and crowded quarters drive the less fortunate to the streets where foul air and despair don't mix. Enjoyed.

"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to decieve"

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

2 posted 2001-07-03 08:50 AM

nicely done... captured well

Alicethruglass
Member

since 2001-06-19

Posts 368

3 posted 2001-07-03 11:21 AM

Gloom curtains me, becomes
my shadow in the night
surrounds me in memories
entertains my thoughts
quiets my heartbeat
'til restlessness passes.

A tapping at the window,
'tis but a branch of the mind
thoughts on a breeze,
'til scraping glass
brings me back to real...

and I wish...

~A~

Lady In White

Member Elite

since 2001-02-12

Posts 2799
USA

4 posted 2001-07-03 11:27 AM

Professor....a stark write...and well done. Many images were captured here, for a brief moment, and many lives, intermingled...

well done, indeed.

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