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foggisan asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

Did you notice the girl with the pushchair in town today? Did you?

With a wistful smile

She deftly tucks the blanket in,

Whispering as she does so,

"There, sweetheart, there."

Litter chatters along the road,

Needing to be somewhere else.

The baby sleeps for now,

Oblivious to the street wind

And her mother's quiet struggle.

Stalking the sales, special offers,

Trying to find ends to make meet

Maybe get ahead of the game

Not just make it to payday.

Around her the City pulsates,

A steel, stone and wire leviathan

Devoid of emotion, warmth, heart.

It breathes, dead exhalations of fumes,

Smoke and remains of nightclub dreams.

She pulls her collar tight

Shoulders her bag and heads for home.

Car horns blare and engines hum.

Maybe tomorrow,

Maybe....

Update:

Alobar, it was a contortion of the phrase 'to make ends meet' as in juggling the budget to afford to live. I never thought of the possibility of meat to be honest. It always amazes me how different eyes see different things in the same places.

Update 2:

Hi Giggles, yeah, I missed me too! Been tied up with a new project away from home and only just got an internet connection sorted. Living in digs with my mind for company! Hoooo! hoooo! Scary stuff!

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  • Alobar
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    Nice picture of poverty, good desolation painted in the land of plenty. An all too familiar scene.

    Did you mean "meat?" or double meaning intended?

  • 5 years ago

    We have some Christmas displays in the stores. Decorations & trees & things on sale. After Thanksgiving, I expect that the city will be decorating around the lightposts, & garlands over the streets. Wiill be music playing. Not supposed to be going full tilt with Christmas stuff till we've had Halloween and Thanksgiving.

  • 1 decade ago

    Now you're talking. This is so poignant. It speaks but makes no judgemental statements....we can see the scene and make those for ourselves. I love your 'litter chatters etc.' and 'trying to find ends to make meet' - you avoid all cliches here.....one of the ones I wished I'd written.

  • jenny
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Nice to read you again, you came to mind a couple days ago.

    you painted a vivid picture of the now times, I got the meet phrase.

    my mother for ever used, "we got to make ends meet" pay check to pay check, if your lucky to have a job.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Excellent poem of what so many face every day in every place in the world.

  • 1 decade ago

    ((Hugs)) Foggi! Great to see you in fine form. I love your picture painting poems.

  • 1 decade ago

    Hey, here you are! Have missed you.

    This is excellent! Wonderful painting! (I lived it once...)

    <Glad you missed you! giggles>

  • 1 decade ago

    Welcome back, Foggisan! Eloquent poem, great visuals, and sad picture of the financial state of so many.

  • -
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Tah Dah!!! Welcome back and what a grand entrance!!

    Missed you.

    ma

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