Simple pleasures

Simple pleasures of a small town
Not many people understand them
The simple joys

This small town
So quiet
Peaceful

It's small
I will not deny
But it is home

Everyone asleep at 9:30
The leaves are changing color
The air is getting colder

Children are safely
Tucked away
No harm will come to them here

You can hear young girls
Giggling in the distance
They laugh about the idea of love and romance

No cars on the road
A gentle breeze
It's the little things

The simple pleasures
Of a small town
Sometimes seem dull

But it's the simple pleasures
And for me
That will do

Author's Note

hey sorry this didn't turn out as great as I had hope so don't hate to much on it. haha

Reviews

[Rikkevi Rue]

First, you have the most important ingredient-RESPONSE! The title is very good. Second, what you wrote is real to others...look how many of your reviews say as much! Third, If it didn't turn out as great as you had hoped, then maybe there is some aspect of it that is not complete.

Many a poet (and some of the most famous in history) would constantly rewrite their poems to try and improve them. The editor of one considerably reputable publishing house reads each poem to establish if everY line of the poem coalesces with every other line and the overall theme (subject, voice, melody etc) of the piece. He considers every WORD as to its appropriateness and nuance and choses only those which form the most complete and unified whole...

One tip may be to try rewriting parts of the poem that don't seem just right to you, KEEPING THE ORIGINAL and then comparing them, or the like. You may or may not know that Emily Dickinson had hundreds of writes or pieces of writes that were incomplete when she died...but then look at what she DID complete! A poem does not have to be YOUR piece until YOU decide it is complete to YOUR satisfaction...YOU are the author of it, the Goddess of each piece, so satisfy YOURSELF!

[HopelesslyDevoted]

this is turned out really great. i mean this has never been my dream, but i love the way you described it. beautiful!
its funny, about a week ago i wrote a poem that was completely opposite of this. i just never posted it cause i didn't think it was good enough. i think i will post it sometimes in the next couple days.

[Marie Harrison]

I loved it. I grew up in a small town. I understand those simple pleasures and the advantages to having them. Great poem.

[Adrien Hupp]

haha this is a really good poem and your right, small towns are great:P

[Misty Blue Eyes]

this is really good

[Robin]

quiet may be the simplest of pleasures ...

[Coyote Poetry]

It is a very good poem. Nothing wrong with small towns. A warm and safe place where everyone knows everyone ain't so bad. I like the feel and the description. The small town sound like a good place to me. A excellent poem.
Coyote

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ahh..yes..I think I can totally relate to this..better to live in a small place and when you want that injection of excitment travel to it!!!

[Intern'l Shultzfeather]

strong, good will and small town time, to which the reader will relate. So proud of you Ms. Willingham. You continue to branch out.

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i love the genuine sentiment of this poem-really-i have lived from left coast to right coast and moved 30+ times before i was nineteen and would have given anything to have existed in this poems reality of expression. this is just beautifully expressed :)

"But it's the simple pleasures
And for me
That will do"
---(I'm Jealous!)-

[Wondering Mind]

often, it is the simple pleasures that last longer