Snapshots

Thanks Angliholic and Jackie, and Breathtest:

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Originally Posted by breathtest

Prince! I haven't visited this thread in a while. A long time actually. And just reading through, i'm so glad i came back. I feel as though i have observed the same things you have just by reading these poems. You seem to take a scene and describe it perfectly in so little words. It leaves me wondering what you would write about me if you saw me in the street! Maybe i would know more about myself just by reading what you wrote. haha.

I love to people watch too, it's surprising how much emotion you can feel. Thank you for sharing these.

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This is one of the most flattering responses I've had to these Snapshots. Perhaps if you sent me your Google Earth coordinates and I could figure out how to use it, I could zoom in and make a snapshot of you?:icon_bs: Or maybe you could find me at my Cafe, Fairmount St corner Esplanade in Montreal?

Prince, i regret that i live so far away from Montreal, or you could be sure i would stop by that cafe.

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Originally Posted by breathtest

Prince, i regret that i live so far away from Montreal, or you could be sure i would stop by that cafe.

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I don't follow you: you live no further away from Montreal than I do from London!

well i guess distance is subjective

How do you do it? I mean write so well.

Glad I got the chance to read your write.

Kittypaws

Thanks, Kittypaws.

Thank you, JackieGinger and Breathtest, my fellow people watcher> I would be nervous trying to capture you in the 5 or 6 lines to which I try to limit myself... Here's a challenge you might want to take up:

Imagine yourself as you might be in my eyes (or iin your own) if you caught sight of yourself walking by!

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Originally Posted by breathtest

Prince! I haven't visited this thread in a while. A long time actually. And just reading through, i'm so glad i came back. I feel as though i have observed the same things you have just by reading these poems. You seem to take a scene and describe it perfectly in so little words. It leaves me wondering what you would write about me if you saw me in the street! Maybe i would know more about myself just by reading what you wrote. haha.

I love to people watch too, it's surprising how much emotion you can feel. Thank you for sharing these.

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Black folk will almost always
respond graciously when you smile at them
although they may know
it’s your way of asking forgiveness.

A guy goes by
with a sour face
and a big white dog.
The dog is on a leash.
The sour face, alas, is not.

I say he should be leashed and told to stay. Guys can get into so much trouble...

Of course, it could have been the dog taking the human for walkies in which case.....

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Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin

A guy goes by
with a sour face
and a big white dog.
The dog is on a leash.
The sour face, alas, is not.

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lol. but does the owner look like his dog?

Thanks Haunted, Hillwalker and Delta40

A yellow schoolbus stops
and tiny khassidic kids
race across the street
to board it
while their turbanned mothers
wave and wave
until the bus is almost out of sight.

A heavy-set black woman,
swathed in winter clothes,
takes each step
as if it were measured
to the millimetre,
then turns in
to her place of paid servitude.

A long-awaited Snapshot!! This one and the previous one stir up one's ethnic awareness. The "millimetre" not only vividly takes our eyes downward to the difficult steps the black woman is having when she walks because of her weight, it's also a fitting commentary of how little progress some black people still have in "walking" out of servitude.

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Originally Posted by Delta40

lol. but does the owner look like his dog?

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Delta, pleaaaaase. Ha! You are hard to please on truly ideal statements.