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foggisan asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

Does your community have pillars you are hardly aware of?

Three hundred and twenty years in the making.

Lovers have met

Battles been fought, won and lost

And the afternoon heat

Has been endured here.

The King of the castle triumphed-

And was duly deposed here

Armies seen off

Defenders overwhelmed.

An enemy base

A home sanctuary.

Hitching post

Rendezvous, spaceship and monkey bars

Oh, and cuckoos have been heard here.

Countless hands, feet and tired posteriors have left their mark.

And it has left a mark in my heart, here.

The old tree trunk in the park.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I agree. Very nice work indeed. ^_^

    -Joe

  • 1 decade ago

    I have seen the past by standing on a battleground

    you can hear the cries of war--if only you can listen

    moving from the Indian wars to battlefields of today

    we don't seem to get it--do we?

    sending our bright promise off to die

    we get stuck with what is left

    they call themselves---politicians!

    Sorry, Ma's answer set me off--I was half there reading your write, what she said tipped the scale.

    Your poem is thought provoking to say the least!

  • 1 decade ago

    Foggy, you've sent me back to the playground:

    Playing Commandoes (Aged 6)

    Doing a belly-crawl, through the undergrowth.

    as stealthily as a Cougar.

    I had hauf a stick o rhubarb left,

    and a wee brown poke o sugar.

    Bliss.

  • 1 decade ago

    No, but we have a dump. Does that count? lol A good read, with the ending to tie it in.

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    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Have you walked the fields of Gettysburg?

    Your verse took me back to the days and feelings I had when I did.

    Excellent.

    ma

  • jenny
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    As sweet as youth, this poem.

    great last line, brings smiles to heart.

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