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Closed Doors

Walk down the streets and roads past closed doors. Many with curtains or blinds that are drawn. Study the various facades as you stroll by. Give each house it's own story, big or small. The one over there with the yellow door, such a tall narrow house with blinkered windows. Are the people living within the same? With narrow life's and narrower minds? This one here beautiful with elegant lines, surely its owners must be someone famous as they dress in latest fashion with presence that shouts, look at me, I am someone important. Next is one that is squat and rather ugly, untidy grounds that shout of neglect. Kids running around shabbily dressed stunted in growth from a lack of food. Pictures that may or may not be true, Yet each with a life all of its own. Impressions that linger in the mind. How close to the truth is your vision?

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Date: 10/11/2014 12:41:00 PM
Shadow this is an excellent poem, well done and I want to thank you so much for my wonderful placement in your Double Reverse Entheree Contest, I am very honoured ~~
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Date: 10/8/2014 11:38:00 PM
made me think, Shadow. indeed, how close to the truth is our vision? i love how this ended with that question. profound write!
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Date: 10/8/2014 3:41:00 PM
I love your poem Shadow. It is so true how we build our own picture inside our minds. I often think of this when I see (odd) characters, and wonder what they are like inside but to often unfortunately build things in my mind that I shouldn't. Your poems makes me really stop and think.
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Date: 10/8/2014 10:34:00 AM
Pictures that May or may not be true...nice.
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