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Hallucination
Member

since 2001-03-18

Posts 419

0 posted 2004-12-06 04:25 AM

Somewhere in-between, so many places,
Is a town I like to call home.
To big city folk, It may not be much,
But it is all I’ve ever known.

The town itself is centuries old,
But modernising’s killing those times.
Still the long a banded train station,
Is preserved for historical minds.
Talking about written past events,
Just opposite stood once something rare.
A king around the 16th hundred,
Build a Tavern on what’s now town square.

These roads and flats, these stores and jobs,
Didn’t magically appear.
Were someone’s sweat, were someone’s blood,
It were and will still be for years.
For In time folks will become bound,
To what they see as their home town.

Can see the school I used to attend
When I was younger from back yard
And just beyond there is the hillside
Where summers and friendships used to start

Somewhere in-between, so many places,
Is a town I like to call home.
To big city folk, It may not be much,
But it is all I’ve ever known.

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

1 posted 2004-12-06 05:28 AM

I live in one of those, Brian, with a tavern in the center of town...probably not as old as your hometown, and not where I grew up in childhood, but where I have grown in my adult years.

M

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2004-12-06 05:32 AM

good warm write

Cloud 9
Senior Member

since 2004-11-05

Posts 980
Ca

3 posted 2004-12-06 01:29 PM

I really miss my hometown. I go back and visit now and then to visit family and friends. Great write.

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

4 posted 2004-12-06 02:58 PM

Something strikes me as wonderful about this poem, Brian. Perhaps it is the theme, I also live outside a small town..(pop 2500)

Perhaps it is small town America that has made the whole country strong?

Tighten up a few lines, and you will have a classic poem, one that appeals to all who have experienced small town life...

good job, I enjoyed reading this
___________ice
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