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The Stranger Across the Room MAG
I sat in the airport reading a magazine
My eyes started to wander across the scene
They fell upon a man with dirty clothes and messy hair
He paid no attention to it, he didn’t care
He wore slim-cut jeans and a worn-out hat
He had a tattoo on his arm of a baseball bat
He had a five o’clock shadow you could see from a mile
And it looked like he hadn’t had a haircut in a while
His face was weather-worn and tanned like leather
He must have lived somewhere with pretty rough weather
He had a scar above his left eye
I wondered what happened, how and why
As I boarded my plane I looked back once more
The man was making his way to the store
As my plane left for Egypt to see the tombs
I couldn’t stop thinking of the stranger across the room
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seriously i fell as if i am staring at the stranger when i read the imagery in this poem.
wow! the imagery is really good! not sure why isnt posted under limericks though...a limerick is a 5 liner, rhyme scheme aabba with the bb lines being pretty short.
but the freeverse poem is good! i loved it! keep writing!
however, i am confused about why the stranger is so important? most poems arent about nothingness, and this is kinda...pointless? its well written but i dont see what ur trying to accomplish with it
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