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Open Poetry #27

Living in Pleasantville

peppermint35
Senior Member

since 2000-05-28

Posts 1106
Texas, USA

0 posted 2003-07-21 03:02 AM

The colors are gone
Everything bleached out
The life sucked dry
People surround me
Yet I am alone
Nothing seems real
Only a shell
I must go on
I forget why
Smile pleasantly
It's only a game
That nobody wins
An exercise in irony
Living in Pleasantville

Pepper
"A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth."
Percy Bysshe Shelley

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2003-07-21 05:04 AM

I"m there every day

good write i can relate to

vlraynes
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

2 posted 2003-07-21 05:40 AM

Yes...Pleasantville...you've described it well.
Nicely done.
~Vicky
"it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease
to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty"
-- Don Marquis

peppermint35
Senior Member

since 2000-05-28

Posts 1106
Texas, USA

3 posted 2003-07-21 09:28 AM

'tis but a thing, but it passes way too slowly... ya know?

thanks for your kind comments

Pepper
"Somewhere, somehow, it should be possible to touch someone and never let go again. To hold someone, not for a moment but forever." Unknown

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