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Purity
Senior Member

since 2001-11-20

Posts 526
Once Upon, USA

0 posted 2006-01-09 11:35 PM

I walk these streets of broken promises
to see so much in the air, so much despair:
Here a man in tattered gloves begging for change,
and there a street guitarist wails for a dime.
Time is in stitches while the delinquents dance
a delicate ditty buffing about bottles with swift kicks...
Music here, there and everywhere is drowned
by slices of sirens and screams...
Angelic choruses of forgotten hopes, dreams, lifes.
A penny saved is a penny worth stealing to add to the pot,
so maybe a thief in the night can survive.
God, there's such a need out here...
For Love... deep in their eyes, I see it.
Can so many faces endure the darkest hour?
Here in my heart and on these streets, I understand.
The cold grey dark of the night dangles lives by a thread,
and the lonely are slipping away...
So many reasons...
So many lies...
So many faces...

Wings bruised from turning away in such confined space...Not broken...still healable...still feathered with life, somewhere

green_itchy_stuff
Senior Member

since 2003-06-26

Posts 1929
New Caney, Tx

1 posted 2006-01-10 10:05 PM

I see plenty of that here. Not just on the streets, but inside plenty of buildings, as well. Being a hypocrite sucks.

-GIS

So what if my wings are too scratched, cut, and beat up to fly... I'll walk.

Kaos
Member

since 2001-08-02

Posts 317
between space and time

2 posted 2006-01-17 01:08 PM

Very powerful words

'God, there's such a need out here...
For Love... deep in their eyes, I see it.
Can so many faces endure the darkest hour?'

I enjoyed reading this alot... kinda close to home here and there, thanks

Life is a torment and torment an enigma. So burn the shackles of slavery and let love run free
-i wrote it somewhere in time

EveGnosis
Member

since 2002-02-21

Posts 300
New York, USA

3 posted 2006-01-29 12:32 PM

"angelic choruses of forgotten hopes, dreams, lifes"...

wow!!!! you really, really captured the heart of the city (and of anywhere) as i've seen it living here in new york.

this plays out like an awesome video...such vivid detail, the reader actually sees it! kudos, carri!

of all the things we try to find... it's only love we keep.

Katerie
Member

since 2006-01-27

Posts 92
Central New York

4 posted 2006-01-29 09:12 AM

I see this everyday. A good reminder type poem.

sgreybe
Member

since 2000-04-28

Posts 209
London, UK

5 posted 2006-01-29 05:56 PM

Hey Purity

This is such a wonderful piece. I feel the hurt coming through. I see this daily in London. It is both tremendous and terrible at the same time.

Great work. Keep it up.
Sylvia

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

6 posted 2006-01-29 06:33 PM

Definitely makes one think of their own circumstances and how they may help~~

M

coyote
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 1077

7 posted 2006-01-30 09:12 PM

The drama of the streets is hard to capture in mere words. You have done it very well, Purity.

Enjoyed reading.

Coyote 8)

"Only the dead, have seen the end of war."
Plato

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