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Array ( [sid] => 133714 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => DISTRACTED [time] => 2007-04-22 08:45:30 [hometext] => Have you ever been distracted ? from life.......... read on. [bodytext] =>
Somewhere between there and my trusted routine life lends a detour,
a welcome distraction feathered my sense of being, as
birds and butterflies held captive my reality

A familiar aroma steam from the streets now spatter with morning showers
as puddles surrender reflection of the now convert.

My ears scorch from the roars babies and hungry men cries,
and I drop a coin in the old man’s hat and cradle my conscience.

Hungry eyes shoulders my focus, as children skip across playful streets
and disappears beyond the evening shadows

And so tomorrow I tread this very path, for I want
to be distracted.

Mark Thompson
June 13, 2006

Jamaica W.I

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DISTRACTED

Contributed by krammy on Sunday, 22nd April 2007 @ 08:45:30 AM in AEST
Topic: InspirationalPoems

Somewhere between there and my trusted routine life lends a detour,
a welcome distraction feathered my sense of being, as
birds and butterflies held captive my reality

A familiar aroma steam from the streets now spatter with morning showers
as puddles surrender reflection of the now convert.

My ears scorch from the roars babies and hungry men cries,
and I drop a coin in the old man’s hat and cradle my conscience.

Hungry eyes shoulders my focus, as children skip across playful streets
and disappears beyond the evening shadows

And so tomorrow I tread this very path, for I want
to be distracted.

Mark Thompson
June 13, 2006

Jamaica W.I

Copyright Â© krammy ... [ 2007-04-22 08:45:30]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: DISTRACTED (User Rating: 1 )
by Butterflygirl40 on Sunday, 22nd April 2007 @ 09:12:20 AM AEST
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good poem

Re: DISTRACTED (User Rating: 1 )
by catz77 on Sunday, 22nd April 2007 @ 09:16:43 AM AEST
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nice imagery
nice write

catz

Re: DISTRACTED (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Monday, 23rd April 2007 @ 12:55:06 AM AEST
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A well written and very discriptive work. In order to get in touch with the best of humanity we need to be distracted. Otherwise we are simply zombies. Well done, poet!

BRAVO!

Daniel

Re: DISTRACTED (User Rating: 1 )
by northernlights on Sunday, 21st March 2010 @ 01:02:54 AM AEST
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Your poetry has such a personal feel to it,I'm walking with you and seeing what you are seeing in the way you express yourself, and this one is like you tapping me on the shoulders and saying come and see the world like I am seeing it.

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