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Poems - Nobody Really Listens
| | Nobody Really Listensby FuchsiaFestival!
The wind whizzing violently
drags like a tornado
gushing through the city.
I open a forgotten sketchbook,
etching bad examples of our world:
guns on cardboard,
killers in a black alley,
tumors circling grandmas
as their children cry,
they suffer alone:
nobody really listens.
The world is designed at the
expense of a women's virginity,
pollution-filled life with
intelligence on the side:
the night, a balloon suffocating
on its own helium, stars staring
dreadfully at human regression.
I cough, my breath filled with pain.
I choke on the idea
that stars arch over us
without speaking a word.
The world will use a coffin
and stuff its problems inside
to forever be forgotten,
but never fixed.
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Re: Nobody Really Listens
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by Gary on Friday, June 15, 2012 (18:17:54) |
Well written and powerful
Gary
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Re: Nobody Really Listens
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by FuchsiaFestival! on Sunday, June 17, 2012 (07:57:26) |
Thanks, I appreciate it much!
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Re: Nobody Really Listens
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by maryanns on Saturday, June 16, 2012 (14:36:25) |
Your poem, especially the depth of detail really fits in with how I'm seeing the world lately... hard, difficult and insensitive. Of course communications brings us mostly the stark and brutal, but it's very easy to believe humanity has become increasingly callous as time goes by. Wonderful sense of maturity in this piece, Sammi - really well done. Best wishes, Mary Ann
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Re: Nobody Really Listens
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by FuchsiaFestival! on Saturday, June 16, 2012 (14:43:14) |
Thanks for your comment, as I enjoy heartfelt and well thought-out comments more than "nice write" which doesn't express at all what the person's reaction to a poem would be. I am glad you are to express the boundaries you have with this world and the way you see the callousness of today's world on the whole. I would say people are insensitive to the way others are treated, to the political difficulties, and even themselves which says one thing: if you are going to toss yourself around like a garbage bag, you will never love another person, because you will look at yourself as poppycock up to other people's standards. That is the way it's been and the way it will always be. The world is contorted beyond belief, and to be honest, I lack hope that there will ever be a repair.
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Re: Nobody Really Listens
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by maryanns on Saturday, June 16, 2012 (15:14:53) |
Are we all victims of a perception we're being fed, like an "acceptance virus" so we'll go down quietly resigned to our fate?
I feel bad for our youth who are striving to achieve their full potential in spite of the prevailing wind. Lew's son just graduated college - he's a brand new history teacher in a time of massive layoffs. Just one example...
So it makes me wonder, what will become of all the bright and hardworking folks out there who did exactly what the (former) system asked of them? Now what, smarty-pants in charge? 
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Re: Nobody Really Listens
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by FuchsiaFestival! on Saturday, June 16, 2012 (15:20:01) |
It's hard to say, especially in a a world marred by others trying to be accepted, trying to respected with the lack of human compassion that will within itself understand these individuals. These bright and hardworking folks who do what these "dead" individuals did, then they will lose in the end run...it is for them to be accepted, but they shouldn't be accepted if they have to run into the cowardly direction.
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Re: Nobody Really Listens
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by Ozymandias on Sunday, June 17, 2012 (06:42:00) |
A very good poem indeed; the insight does you credit!
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Re: Nobody Really Listens
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by FuchsiaFestival! on Sunday, June 17, 2012 (06:53:58) |
Thanks, I appreciate it!
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Re: Nobody Really Listens
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by kreemer on Sunday, June 17, 2012 (15:11:48) |
"...guns on cardboard,
killers in a black alley..."
Enjoyed!
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Re: Nobody Really Listens
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by FuchsiaFestival! on Sunday, June 17, 2012 (17:24:45) |
Thanks! I appreciate it much!
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Re: Nobody Really Listens
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by doubt41 on Sunday, July 22, 2012 (06:11:28) |
I have been awake many nights wondering a great many things..this just adds to the question I really enjoyed the read thank you so much Its exactly something I needed at this time, take care my friend
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Re: Nobody Really Listens
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by doubt41 on Sunday, July 22, 2012 (06:11:31) |
I have been awake many nights wondering a great many things..this just adds to the question I really enjoyed the read thank you so much Its exactly something I needed at this time, take care my friend
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Re: Nobody Really Listens
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by ladymaybebaby on Saturday, August 04, 2012 (17:20:36) |
Another beautifully written piece of poetry! I went back to read it a second time just for the sheer pleasure of the words. You my new friend have quite a way with words yourself! This is really impressive work, I'd be lying if I didn't say again, you have so many great lines in there that I wish I would have come up with them first! Bravo, to a job well done!
-LMB xoxo
This is a 10 for sure!
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