Snapshots

Oh, and by the way -- I didn't mean that I felt that courtesy from you, Jer, is unexpected. I meant that the woman hadn't expected it. Yeah I know -- I didn't have to explain, but then again, I wanted my thought to be clear as to my meaning.

I think that I am the cornball with the cheese coating; you know the ones? That you pop in the air and catch with your mouth, ha ha! :lol:

Cornballs of the world -- UNITE! ;)

Keep 'em coming, Jer. :thumbs_up

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Originally Posted by kiz_paws

Oh, and by the way -- I didn't mean that I felt that courtesy from you, Jer, is unexpected. I meant that the woman hadn't expected it. Yeah I know -- I didn't have to explain, but then again, I wanted my thought to be clear as to my meaning.

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I perfectly understood that you understood and indeed it seemed to me clear to read that her first, sort of impersonal smile was replaced by one that meant Wow! A smile - for free! - from one stranger to another...

**Nods** Indeed

Now, Jer -- can you put into words, the wonderfully blissful feeling one has upon sipping their first delightful cup of coffee of the day? This is something that no one has yet captured...

;)

As I bend down to tie my shoe-lace
next to his table,
I hear a guy speak into his cell-phone:
“Five years from now I don’t want to hear you say
that I didn’t try everything.
Because I tried everything.
I can’t be chasing you all the time.
I want you to call me sometimes...”

I walk away

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Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin

A school-girl walks by,
proud head held high.
Have you got any good news for me?
I wonder silently,
thinking of a good friend of mine
in Halifax, in hospital,
gravely ill

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Isn't that life itself? To be out in it when your own heart is sick.

At Java U an elderly couple
labour up from their table
and hobble away.
The skin on his face looks waxed;
hers resembles onion-skin paper
folded and unfolded
over and over again

i love flicking through this album :)

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Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin

At Java U an elderly couple
labour up from their table
and hobble away.
The skin on his face looks waxed;
hers resembles onion-skin paper
folded and unfolded
over and over again

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Beautiful, these two individuals became real and I watched them slowly make their way home....

Michel was out in front
of the café this morning
brushing away damp fallen leaves,
cigarette dangling between his lips,
regular-guy hair-cut,
clean-shaven cheeks and trim,
boyish body

A small, elegantly dressed black woman
hurtles down the street
as if in flight from some transgression
or in pursuit of her destiny

A couple of high-school girls go by,
one of them a perfect miniature
of a Woman, thigh-high leather boots,
stiletto heels, glossy
black hair, make-up
-–and attitude!

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Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin

A couple of high-school girls go by,
one of them a perfect miniature
of a Woman, thigh-high leather boots,
stiletto heels, glossy
black hair, make-up
-–and attitude!

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Great snapshot, and I loved the ending.

The line "a perfect miniature of a Woman" was awesome. :nod:

A suave grey BMW
sort of hiccups
over the corrugated asphalt
of an alleyway,
pokes its nose warily into the street
then slinks its way west on Fairmount

In my fractured French
I rattle away to Karim
and he, with his warm
Lebanese-Algerian face and soft
brown eyes, attends
as faithfully
as if I were his beloved brother

At the poetry reading tonight
I felt a bit more of my life
slip out from under me!
It was all right.
I hadn’t been using it anyway.
Still, it was strange to see it go