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Open Poetry #30

What Child

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2003-12-23 08:14 AM

What child does not tear
With confrontation of hunger and fear?
What child does not cry
When the parents must eventually die?
What child does not scream
To a life that is a nightmarish dream?
What child does not moan
When abandoned to the streets all alone?
What adult so brave
To make a sacrifice and a child save.

Gloom

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2003-12-23 08:29 AM

Gloom
A big problem, well done.

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

2 posted 2003-12-23 08:31 AM

A very dear and humble poem, may all their hearts be filled with love...may the world be given food so that no man woman or child ever feels hunger in any form. God bless

Sadelite
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since 2003-10-11

Posts 2519

3 posted 2003-12-23 08:32 AM

Professor,
  I think I know some of those children!  Sad part, some of their tears turn to Pompeii's stone.

What adult so brave
To make a sacrifice and a child save.

I liked your write very much. Sad, but true.
(I would really like to see you write something someday using the image of Pompeii's stones now that I think about it...Will you? )
              Sadelite

BTW, Good morning.   You woke me up with this one.

[This message has been edited by Sadelite (12-23-2003 08:36 AM).]

ice
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since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

4 posted 2003-12-23 08:39 AM

Very good questions P.G. and what better way to ask them then in the form of a poem?_______ice
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Aimster
Member Elite

since 2000-02-19

Posts 4297
Charlotte, NC

5 posted 2003-12-23 09:12 AM

thank you for this reality check...
sometimes esp during the holidays, we all
get so busy with our own everyday lives and
what we are doing with our families and such,
that I think we forget others...thank you
for writing this beautiful and sad yet
very accurate poem!

Happy Holidays,
Amy

"When life gives you sorrow, may you experience the spirit of laughter"

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