A Small Dark-Haired Boy - Photo 2

A small dark-haired boy

absorbed in the words he scrawls

at an old wood desk

has thoughts brighter than grim walls

beyond which his future sprawls


Nov. 23, 2017 for Eve Roper's Photostory Contest

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Line Gauthier

April 12, 2018 at 8:40 PM

Lovely poem, Andrea, lofty ideals with such few words.

Viv Wigley

December 3, 2017 at 2:24 AM

Congrats, Andrea, I stared at this picture for ages but couldn't come up with anything. You did well to sum it up in Tanka form, well done! Viv x

Marc Acrich

March 28, 2018 at 11:04 AM

When i was young I started a correspondence on my desk, I would leave notes and the per person answered just like email then WW agreed to meet I was with the teacher and she came in I pretended not to know her, she left and I said to the teacher, she is ugly, my teacher almost separated my head from my body, he yelled, its about the person, lesson well takenI guess I did not learn the lesson because years later I grew up in the boys club and as I was walking by a pic of a little Japanese man I said kind of out loud who is that ugly dood, the judo teacher grabbed me by the back of my neck and yelled at me that's my Sense, he was like 250 pounds and i was like 100 i almost lost my life i think that last lesson sunk in