TheShinje Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 [size=1] This Is a poem I worte a while ago, I though i might share it with you. It's about a penny, see if you can guess what happened to it at the end. Please critique, what you like and don't like about it. [/size] [center][b][size=1]Falling down the well,[/size] [size=1] a train of thought, derailed by the systems of life.[/size] [size=1] I tiny penny falls,[/size] [size=1] hitting the sides on it's way into the abyss.[/size] [size=1] [/size] [size=1] In the old lady's purse,[/size] [size=1] the penny had sat alone[/size] [size=1] with no others,[/size] [size=1] alone in the world of it's own.[/size] [size=1] [/size] [size=1] 1945[/size] [size=1] penny came from nowhere,[/size] [size=1] from obscurity of copper[/size] [size=1] molded into man's objection.[/size] [size=1] [/size] [size=1] A child picks it off the road[/size] [size=1] she put' it in her purse,[/size] [size=1] it was her treasure.[/size] [size=1] [/size] [size=1] Now she is old,[/size] [size=1] she kept the penny safe[/size] [size=1] in a musty old purse,[/size] [size=1] withering away as if in sympathy.[/size] [size=1] [/size] [size=1] When she passed on,[/size] [size=1] the penny sat alone[/size] [size=1] with no one to call upon,[/size] [size=1] no one to hear it.[/size] [size=1] [/size] [size=1] A child finds it,[/size] [size=1] and makes a wish,[/size] [size=1] the penny is cast into the well,[/size] [size=1] falling, to be alone[/size] [size=1] forever.[/size] [size=1] [/size] [size=1] she sinks in the bitter cold water.[/size] [size=1] on a moonlight, winswept night.[/size] [size=1] deeper and deeper,[/size] [size=1] falling into obscirtiy.[/size] [size=1] [/size] [size=1] penny falls to the bottom[/size] [size=1] and there were others,[/size] [size=1] many pennies[/size] [size=1] with wishes attached to them.[/size] [size=1] [/size] [size=1] penny had someone to call upon[/size] [size=1] someone who could listen[/size] [size=1] for on that one forboding night,[/size] [size=1] she found a place called home[/size] [size=1] [/size] [size=1] She stayed there forever[/size] [size=1] with her friends in the deep.[/size] [size=1] until the mighty mushroom cloud[/size] [size=1] took them all away. [/size][/b][/center] [size=1] [/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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