I don't think I'd keep "hit back" unless I specified a provocation. This was one of my mornings to volunteer at the Mission. Johnnie lives just across the street, drinks (beer?) regularly and has problems with "anger management" but there is somehing unspoiled and maybe naive about him.Originally Posted by Apostrophe
ooo, i'd like to hear about that in a poem. i didn't get enough of it near the last of the first one.
"his body curved around the smile
in his smashed-up Inuit face,
which wants to be loved"
Is so evocative. Marvellous descritpion in context. I like this immensely.
Live long and prosper - H
A spindly Chinese woman
walks the block,
back and forth,
back and forth.
It will take a long time
to pass yet another day.
Rather a sad image. I can't help wanting to know more about her.
Ahh, this one makes me ache to read it.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
Thank you. She lives a few doors down from me, must be in the neighbourhood of 70. Lives alone but has a son and possibly a few other relatives who come to visit. Sometimes sweeps the walks of neighbours on either side of her. Speaks not a word of English but at times addresses me in spirited Mandarin or Cantonese, seemingly confident that if she speaks with enough conviction, I'll get the message.
She seems to me a personification of boredom. What a sad life!
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~ William Blake
Captivity is consciousness,
So's liberty. ~ Emily Dickinson
Like all your stuff, it is well thought out and creates real impact. Am I alone in thinking 'pass yet another day' jars a bit? I'd hoik the 'yet' out.
I was aware that "yet" did not flow but I wanted to emphasize that this had been going on for yet another day. Thanks for your comment.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
It's implied, though, is it not?
Sure it is but I wanted, if possible, to mimic the plodding of her feet over sidewalks she'd walked many times before. In her mind, I imagined, everything carries the memory of having been done before.
An unusually tall,
thing young man
with a pimpled face
scowls his way
into the café.
Sorry. Double post.
This builds around "scowls (his way)" thus opening your snapshot to a world of possibilities!
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