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A stillness sat soft in the back street alleys
washing hung limp cross the cobbled stone way
Silence screamed out from the noisy dwellings
seeming as if to proclaim the day
Dandelion’s smiled in their golden splendour
red fire weed stood straight and tall
Groundsel clung to the brick strewn rubble
bindweed ran cross a derelict wall
Butterflies sipped at the scarlet thistle
grasshoppers sang in the green scrub grass
Honey bees raced round the rolling brambles
where spiders hung out their webs of glass
Caterpillars dined midst the stinging nettles
wasps held a feast in an old jam jar
A Ladybird drank from a rain filled bean can
ants built their nest neath the wheel of a car
Sparrows bathed, in the dust filled hollows
while a blackbird called from a treetop high
A solitary cloud in the clear blue heaven
smiled knowingly as it drifted on by
Magic was seen on the city's waste land
there where the grime kissed children play
My eyes saw the beauty of this green Oasis
summertime called on the slums today
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Please tell me what you think
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EXCELLENT!!! This is very good. Your words and your stanzas are absolutely amazing and perfect!!! This poem is so fabulous there really are no words to express how great this is!! I LOVE IT!!!
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A sad fell in this beauty my friend
You have been missed this summer. Probably as busy as I have been. Trying to stretch these warm summer days long so we are more ready for the cold shorter winter ones.
I am doing OK.
Your friend,
Jim
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A lovely picture of nature you have painted with your
words. Its like walking through a garden, witnessing
nature's beauty..lovely read.
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WOW...this is awesome. It has been a long time since I have been able to see honey bees..I don't see them any more, but you painted a picture full of vivid imagery. Wonderful!!
Sam
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I liked how you drew the beauty that secretly hides within some great work here Legend and so good to read a new poem from you. I have missed your pen.
Blessings to you always.
Love and LIght
Frozentearz
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Beautifully visual in wonderful rhythm and rhyme. Oh I have missed reading your wonderful words. This was utter delight.
~Pamela 
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Just marvelous. I'm so glad I stopped by your page. This was well worth the wait...one of your best! The imagery is superb and, of course, the rhyming is flawless. It is apparent that you put a lot of time and thought into your poems. You were the first poet I placed on my favorites list here at AP and you are still at the top of that list. I hope you are having a nice summer. My son was in London for a few days last month on a business trip. He had a wonderful time. Cheers ~ Sue
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Imagery complete ...
and as each verse unfolded, I was right there with you. The photo was a perfect addition to your words and I could see both in the pages of a book one day. Very nicely shared observation. I did stumble on the last line and thought that it should read: Summertime call(ed) on the slums today ... but really was unsure and reread the last verse several times to see what I might have missed. joy
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thank you Joy for your kind comment you are indeed right it should have read called thank you for pointing it out i have fixed it thank you
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what a painting!
Every line paints a picture!
It's amazing how beauty can be found if only you look for it. Both in unusual AND the usual places.
Artfully done as I remember finding in your writes. (Been gone for a while...me that is) LOL
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amazing as usual
This calls me back to a simpler time when I took the time to take it all in ESPECIALLY the little things. Something I desperately need to get back to for the well being of my soul. wELL DONE... AGAIN!
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Fortunate are we who can see beauty in the most unusual and unlikely of places.
Thankfully you are one of those people. x
Von
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How wonderful Legend. If we open our eyes we can find beauty and wonder in everything we see. A truly lovely piece..Loved it...mal
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This is a beautiful poem! Wonderfully written, we can see beauty in everything! This was vivid and simply outstanding. I have missed your poetry!
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Wonderful
What a clever and thoughtful piece you've created here, turning something which we often frown upon into a thing of beauty. The wealth of varied beauty that you describe takes us unaware as well. There is so much that we just don't see. There for the content.
The poetry and its construction is wonderful as well. It reads so gently and smoothly and the rhymes are very effortless concise . . . and fitting. Great job.
Paul
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This was all the beauty in the streets
behind where nature lerkes as summer moved on. How have you been long time since I heard from you Sir of England...mac -
This was all the beauty in the streets
behind where nature lerkes as summer moved on. How have you been long time since I heard from you Sir of England...mac
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wonderful !
The words and imagery are just delightful and the rhyme scheme flows extremely well. It makes a change to read a properly constructed piece of poetry that remains consistant from beginning to end.
Great stuff !
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Welcome back, I have missed reading your wonderful poetry and this is you at your very best. You have taken an everyday scene and woven your magic, turning the ordinary into the extraordinary, I can smell, see, taste the images you have written about.
Thank you Legend for sharing this with us.
Welcome home my friend ...
Sue
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Thank you my dear friend you are far to kind with your comment But heck i accept them graciously Thank you
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AMAZING
WOW..you are the master of rhyme and to build this fantastic imagery to flow within..true genius..and a beautiful ending..even in chaos there can be beauty.an outstanding beauty you wove within..perfect take on the picture prompt.. .thank you so much for sharing..blessings my dear friend..namaste..
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Thank you so much for your wondeful comments Its true if one look with open eyes one can see beauty in everything
Thank you for reading
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The magic has returned
I bow to your pure genious! Wow, my eyeballs are popping out my head, I can't believe the beautiful sights of this city! wait.. just realized, this is only the wonderful imagery you woved in my mind! EXCELLENT MY FRIEND, welcome back to your throne.
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Your kind words are always welcome to this poet.I really do appreciate it Thank you
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WOW!! Wonderful..
I loved every description u had here.. really really poetic Very wel ldone Legend.. and yes, summertimes r really special and they have soo much beauty as much as warmth!!
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Thank you raspberry for always being there to give my work a kind word You have to know that they are much appreciated Thank you
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