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Open Poetry #36

Worn Fingertips

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2005-09-27 02:54 PM

They are not callus but worn to softness
Lightly touching the denizens of darkness,
A caress of a knowing touch
Where knowledge doesn’t mean much
And the pools that gather on the ground,
Might be blood or just polluted water found
Tainted with a relieved wino or crack head
Mattering not if alive or long dead.
Worn fingertips feel for a pulse of living
Yet from the coldness none is giving
With care unknown the body is taken
Red lights not needed still flash the streets
And not even a cloudy sky pauses to weep
For there was no hurry for them to save
This is headed for a unmarked grave
John Doe one hundred and three
Now forever he’ll be.

Gloom

Sharksbean
Member

since 2005-09-25

Posts 368
jax

1 posted 2005-09-27 03:03 PM

this chilled me to the bone very good write my friend

-may the force be with you in poetry

Pilgrimage
Member Elite

since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

2 posted 2005-09-27 03:34 PM

And the people who cared gave up a long time ago.

Well done.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

3 posted 2005-09-27 04:46 PM

Dark, dark, dark....and sad. The Gloom is back!

....jo

Martie

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 2005-09-27 04:50 PM

A lonely place your sight
of the streets at night

You write mood so very well!!

Angelheart
Senior Member

since 2005-09-08

Posts 754
Jacksonville,FL USA

5 posted 2005-09-27 06:26 PM

and yes it is very lovely, thanks for sharing.

Poetry can get you very far
-Laura

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