poetry critical

online poetry workshop

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Random Poem:

The Stranger
unknown

Shadows brought heels
 1
to a calomine ghost
 2
wailing on linoleum
 3
for a stranger to leave.
 4
 
 
Heels brought soft voices
 5
and hands that held needles,
 6
the stranger wept quietly
 7
whispering ‘Papa’.
 8
 
 
Sleep brought a dream
 9
to the calomine ghost
 10
he was nineteen and golden
 11
making love in a vineyard
 12
whispering ‘Francesca’.
 13
 
 
Dreams left a stranger
 14
smiling on linoleum.
 15
He heard his Papa as he slept
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uttering ‘Francesca’,
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and the stranger left
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as his son: ‘Alfredo’
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