Hometown - (Original Poetry)
Your forests
Green and lush that come ablaze with colours in autumn
Your bridges
Spanning rivers both crystal clear and dark and foreboding
Your narrow streets
Buckling from the daily travels of the people going around like a carousel
Your people
Friendly and warm, shifty and shady, lost and found, family and friends, strangers
Your buildings
a mixture of old and new, bustling with activity and desolate
Your people
Native, English and French and sometimes in between
Your restaurants
Burbling with conversations about everything and nothing at once
Your cemetery
Filled with loved ones and old friends and people I did not know but have heard storied told
Your vibe
Relaxed and chill, no sense of urgency, which is why I could stay but feel I must go
Your days
One bleeds into the next and I've lived them all
Your faces
Familiar yet strange, a little older and some even wiser
Your future
Uncertain, but it always has been
Your embrace
Familiar and comforting and for the first time in ages I don't want to break free
Your town
Is your home, it isn't mine anymore but could it be again?
Image is my own
Great post 😊 love your picture and the poem about your place. Upvoted and following
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My pleasure 😊 I really liked it. Have a great day friend
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This rings true for me too!
Nice poem the photo looks like Upstate New York or Northern Pennsylvania.
It's in Northern Ontario so the landscape is quite similar.
A big and beautiful place. A long time ago I fished lake Nipigon, I also flew out of a small town called pickle crow to fish the Severn river near the Manitoba border.
Very good poem. I feel a nostalgy now... missed a lot my native town..
Yes, I miss it but sometimes I don't. It's a weird contradiction.
Sounds and looks like a welcoming and comforting place. Well penned :)
Thank you. :)
You've captured my attention.
finally here lol got my vote brotha! keep em coming :)