The Singing Stops

The Singing Stops

 

the wind

doth blow,

 

but still,

tears won't

 

begin to

surely flow,

 

instead they're

caged tightly

 

behind a

mighty wall...

 

locked away

from everything,

 

where nothing

ever grows,

 

and the

singing has

 

all but

stopped

 

5-31-09
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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Freeman Avatar
September 24, 2009 at 7:14 PM
I enjoyed you poem James, I know a James Blaylock, are you from Arkansas! Sincerely John Moses Freeman
Culverhouse Avatar
September 24, 2009 at 4:28 PM
nicely penned, I like it, welcome to the soup!!
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