Gray City Streets

Grey city streets,
trash litters doorways
of tenements squeezed side by side.
A dandelion blooms.
Trash litters doorways
stray cat steps gingerly
lifts paw, shakes away muck
stalks rat scent.
Tenements squeezed side by side
gray derelict buildings
hidden squalor seeps
coloring life, destroying hope.
A dandelion blooms
amid the squalor
of tenements set side by side.
Hope, amid trash littered doorways.

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*********Sorry about that! I thought I'd signed!! JFC
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Very wonderful poem. A picture really. Grey, grey and one flash of yellow and light, perhaps a young child who will teach or dance someday.
sg
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Thanx for your help.
I am planning to read your poetry. I just didn't get to it tonight.
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Thanx for your help.
I am planning to read your poetry. I just didn't get to it tonight.
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Thank you for your comment!! I look forward to what you have to say about my poetry--!! Warning: There's a lot of it!! *grin*
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fabulous imagery! ms
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Angels and Sherphers is a lovely sweet Christmas poem. Perhaps you would post it here and share it with us?
sg
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Here it is!
ANGELS AND SHEPHERDS
What did the angels say?
What did the angels say,
On that starry night so long away?
What did the angels say?
They said, "A child is born,
And a sign is given,
From the Father of love
In highest heaven."
What did the shepherds see?
What did the shepherds see,
When they left their flocks alee,
What did the shepherds see?
They saw a place where beasts were fed,
They saw a manger for a bed,
They saw the Baby born of Mary
Who, one day our sins would carry.
--Joyce Freeman-Clark ©

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Thank you Joyce Freeman Clark. Some of our loveliest hyms at Christmas are poems, "Away in a Manger", "Silent Night", oh to have been that composer. GOd used him.
sg
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Thank you, sg--you are kind! *smile* I agree, God did use him!! JFC
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And, thank you, ms--I do appreciate your comments! JFC