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Open Poetry #21

Stricker Alley

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2002-06-12 10:32 AM

He plucks at strings
Singing with motionless lips,
Pausing to stare
Nowhere as bourbon sips.

She sit by her window
In shadow two floors below,
Trying to catch a mood
To sooth her from her sorrow.

Across the dirty alleyway,
No way to touch her with his fingers,
She slow dances with herself,
In stealth his loving thought lingers.

The strings end their sadness,
Her light fades to darkness,
Another edges into madness.

Gloom

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

1 posted 2002-06-12 01:37 PM

I don't know how you manage to write so dark and vivid at the same time. "Stricker Alley?" I think there must be one in every city. This read like an intro to a play...

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

2 posted 2002-06-12 01:50 PM

Thank you, Serenity,
For such kind words, I don’t know about other cities,
But this is a real place in mine and I just have to take a brief walk to get there.

Gloom

DawnG

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since 2000-06-23

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United States

3 posted 2002-06-12 01:53 PM

I enjoyed this dark look at a part of town many tend to try to forget exists.

Dawn

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

4 posted 2002-06-12 01:57 PM

Thank you, Dawn,
Yes some forget it exists and others live it everyday.
Pleased you enjoyed this glimpse.

Gloom

Zinsser
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since 2001-02-27

Posts 1641
Calif.

5 posted 2002-06-12 02:31 PM

I agree... this does read like an intro into a play or a book....
nice work here .....
~~ Connie ~~

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

6 posted 2002-06-12 02:49 PM

Thank you, Zinsser,
Glad you like,
For my next part of this sordid play of my life
I’ll post about one of the neighborhood Characters
Crazy Mary.

Gloom

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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Listening to every heart

7 posted 2002-06-12 09:46 PM

Looks like you've got a series
started...keep up the vignettes...

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