LOST LIVES

I fill the pockets of my jeans with letters and lines
like the man sitting on the curb collecting change
both of us mirrored in the images of past lives
an our emotional colors are the same
we are fated to be weighted by the burdens of man
but I am a man of weightless hands
to scribe tales, to slight life and it's demands
I have thoughts, thoughts of a foolish man....
as the man on the curb collects the coins
and the working man begs for change
standing on this curb we are one and the same
we earn the rights to knives, memories of past lives,
with toasts of champagne with our searches in vein...

Author's Note

This came from an example I gave someone about imagery, just one line expanded to make a poem, it is what it is...

Reviews

[joshua deathdealer]

Fantastic work. I really enjoyed this one. Favorited.

[biggerthenu]

thanks this was well done im learning more about poetry thanks for sharing a long life's lesson

[Tkess]

We all have "thoughts of a foolish man," but that is part of life to learn and grow and evolve as a person. It does make me wonder though when I see the homeless and down trotted; the things that happened in their lives that put them in their positions. Are those wounds self-inflicted or are they the circumstance of bad luck to a factor that I can't even fathom? Sometimes it's a little of both.

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

Rene, now you know I love this one. Imagery is my heart........this is wonderful! My favorite lines........as the man on the curb collects the coins
and the working man begs for change
standing on this curb we are one and the same

[Aidz]

excellent once again, and it is

[WatashLegend]

wonderful flow in this write and you executed your example quite well. The humility and honorable humbleness hits home.

[hmarieee]

very powerful and nicely written. You have a way with words!

[Victoria PoetryBunny]

beautifully written and said, i loved and enjoyed this, each line from beginning to end... i love the picture and how you captured it so greatly, nice truth of lives, really truly great

[Audrey Howitt]

"I am a man of weightless hands" This lines speaks volumes to me. Beautiful poem!

[Linda]

Soo good xoxo