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America Forever

by tomlop

People are making faces in the dust by the road
Pretending there is nothing I can see
People are writing songs in the dirt by the highway
Explaining everything I already knew
People are covering up the facelessness of grief
Projecting and expecting innocence
People are singing songs on the trail to rally
And I’ll take you there

People are raising flags in the trees by the ocean
Pretending I have nothing left to dream

While they sang:

America
Forever
Nowadays it seems like all I think about
And nowadays it seems like thinking is all I do
What do I do?





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Re: America Forever (Score: 1 )
by JPerry1980 on Sunday, November 08, 2009 (11:54:40)
Extremely groovy stuff. Really enjoyed this piece, quite insightful as well as to the point that so many of us want to make a difference, but for a great number of us the question is: "How can I make a difference?" Get a guitar and put this to song my friend, I think it would be a great musical piece. -- j.

    Re: America Forever (Score: 1 )
    by tomlop on Sunday, November 08, 2009 (12:37:38)
    Funny you should say that because that's kind of how this started out, with a guitar riff stuck in my head. It just developed from there.


Re: America Forever (Score: 1 )
by thewholesoul on Thursday, November 19, 2009 (20:47:18)
nice one tomlop ilike how your poem develops and leaves you with a question - perhaps the most important question of all, that is, what the hell should we do?? it seems we are all programmed to wait for a leader an alpha male like in those holywood movies whose gonna save the day when in truth it all starts or should start from the person in front of the mirror. but again what should i do?

cool poem.
best wishes
conor

    Re: America Forever (Score: 1 )
    by tomlop on Thursday, November 19, 2009 (20:52:43)
    Thanks, Conor. I'll tell you what you should do, and that's comment on all of my poems Razz

      Re: America Forever (Score: 1 )
      by thewholesoul on Thursday, November 19, 2009 (21:01:45)
      only if you double dare me!! Razz

      no worries mate i'll check some out.

      best wishes
      conor



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