Re: Nightmare Tears / Will Dockery

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 6:37:28 +0000, General-Zod wrote:
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On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 15:29:36 +0000, Will-Dockery wrote:
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 > > On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 5:39:59 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery
wrote:
 > > Nightmare Tears
 > >
 > > Spanish guitar
 > > flutters.
 > >
 > > It was 1895
 > > or so
 > > I was in a nightmare.
 > >
 > > I met my bride
 > > on Saint George Street
 > > sweet brown
 > > nameless bride.
 > >
 > > In the big clapboard
 > > city market house
 > > train station
 > > dream place.
 > >
 > > Her eyes and smile
 > > her sparkle of wit
 > > my dream wife.
 > >
 > > We sit
 > > with happy conversation.
 > >
 > > Across the huge room
 > > I see
 > > the drunken
 > > unreconstructed rebel.
 > >
 > > Swearing
 > > and pushing people.
 > >
 > > I nod to her
 > > that it's time
 > > for us to slide.
 > >
 > > We cut through
 > > the side room
 > > crowded
 > > bar area.
 > >
 > > I look back
 > > my heart sinks
 > > She is not
 > > behind me.
 > >
 > > I don't see her
 > > anywhere
 > > among these
 > > happy ghosts.
 > >
 > > I step out on this street
 > > waiting
 > > looking
 > > no sign of her.
 > >
 > > I step back in.
 > >
 > > Coming through
 > > the opposite
 > > far entrance
 > > I see
 > > The parade
 > > of proud Klansmen.
 > >
 > > It all becomes clear
 > > to me
 > > they took her.
 > >
 > > My sweet smiling
 > > nameless bride.
 > >
 > > I step back
 > > onto
 > > Saint George street.
 > >
 > > Salt breeze
 > > and fish smell
 > > in the air.
 > >
 > > I sit with a group
 > > of fellow ghosts
 > > beaten and grey
 > > under an awning
 > > and I cry.
 > >
 > > Floods and torrents
 > > of tears
 > > as
 > > Spanish guitar flutters.
 > >
 > > -Will Dockery
 > >
 > General Zod wrote:
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 > Sad one.......... truly sad...........
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Good morning Zod, and welcome back.
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This is a response to the post seen at:
http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=659226864#659226864

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Lovely poem

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Thanks again.