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    Revelers in Elysium

    Revelers in ElysiumLast Mardi Gras before KatrinaPope in a wheel chairblessed me in Jackson SquareCops hung around grinning and chattingWhile a couple posed painted blue as KrishnaIn an ancient Vedic artworkBut theirs was a duality of man and womanOn...

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    • hello dearest John it is very sad New Orleans is doing it’s best to recover you were fortunate to have enjoyed your time there before the storms beautiful write and your insight are not lost on me 💕

      • Thank you so much my friend and reading and really feeling my poem. New Orleans has made an amazing comeback. I haven’t been back to Mardi Gras since Katrina. But I have visited the city several times since. I miss the city. I love that city I once called home.

        John

    • New Orleans is where jazz and funk music got there start. Where second-line drumming and parades flourish, and where jazz funerals are carried out. I was sad to see what Katrina did to the french quarter. I’m sure a place like that will always come back from whatever tragedy affects it.

      • Thank you so much Tim for understanding and expressing your great empathy for the tragedy that happened to my city when Katrina came. I lived in New Orleans as a child and remember those cultural events you spoke of. New Orleans has indeed come back. Fortunately the French Quarter didn’t flood as bad as the rest of the city. It was spared the worst. I miss that city. I live seventy miles from New Orleans now. It was a diverse and culturally rich place for me to grow up.

        John

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    It doesn't Make Sense

    One of the first times Iwent to jail, it was inPolk County forpublic intox.Drunk in public.I was homeless for years,where else was I supposedto get drunk?They took me to thestation booked me, and gaveme my phonecall.I called the bail...

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    • You write this story with such clarity and weave it into an engaging scene that reaches out and rivets my attention. Great poem.

      John

    • Powerfully penned, Thomas. Excellent storytelling my friend. Appreciate you.

      Damian

    • You have expressed a real life tale with honesty and clarity.
      I have been there. Got locked up for being drunk in public myself once.
      I think I said to a police officer “Your a C…U…N…T. I didn’t say it i just spelt it out.
      He didn’t understand. When he realised what I was saying I was thrown in the van.
      I they took my clothes and gave me some grey prison scrubs. When I sobered up I started singing prison songs.
      “He’s in the jailhouse now.” and Locked up by Akon. Some counties in England are stricker on booze than others. I have been out of my mind all over England, but Yorkshire was the place they locked me up. Don’t do it in Yorkshire.

      Thanks for sharing this poem. I am glad to know I am not the only one.

      regards
      James

    • This sounds like such a Midwest thing. Great telling of the night!

    • Thank you so much.

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    despair

    sadness consoles me in the dreadit is a vibrant feelingdelicious pain aching within methrums my souldrums my heart and it skips a beatfaltering in the darknessmy thoughts are not as yourswith thoughts of escape I remember the macabre is...

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    • This is an emotional tour de force of dark poetry my friend. You captivate me with this darkly lit poem. A real work of art.

      John

      • hello dearest John wow that’s a beautiful comment thank you graciously 💕

    • Powerfully penned, Brenda. Great dark poetry my friend. Appreciate you.

      Damian

      • hello dearest Damian thank you graciously I deeply appreciate hearing from you… you make my day 💕

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    You

    Anytime you call meI will come to meet youI will come.

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    My Crumbling Fortress

     When heat rises off your body and it's not from Passion When you struggle to find the words any words because you lost your voice When tiny beads of sweat escape not from pores, indicating it's time The Great Wall of Fia...

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