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Open Poetry #21

Concrete Steps

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2002-06-11 04:43 PM

Concrete Steps

I searched
through
a hundred crowds
to find one
familiar face
the reflection
of my soul
that realities
fingers could
trace
and in the
smiles of many
it just was
not found
so I sat
upon concrete steps
going neither
up nor down
for I have
walked flat footed
on asphalt hot
until I settled
down to
one cool
concrete spot
and here is
where I shall
firmly sit
as parade
passes by
for in the
faint moonlight
I have heard
an echo
of my heart
in reply

"The heart is the toughest part of the body, tenderness is in the hands." Carolyn Forche'

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

1 posted 2002-06-11 04:46 PM

the steps of life helen. . .

well done. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

EarthenSoul
Member

since 2002-05-30

Posts 163
WA, USA

2 posted 2002-06-11 04:47 PM

This is so perfect! You write so beautifully! I can't wait to read your next.

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

3 posted 2002-06-11 05:26 PM

I think I have sat there before...going not up or down, am I now? Am I resting in the cool spot, or am I stuck, becoming as stone itself? Oh, I hope not.

Quite a poem. It sets one to many ponderings.

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

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