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drgnflygrl
Caryn Josepher
United States, California

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Still A Boy

Still a boy
Still trying
To keep all your toys
Making grand plans
For when you’re all grown-up
While keeping your blanket
Nice and close
You’ll play in the mud
Tug girl’s pig tails
Write love letters
Making the babysitter
adore you
but you’re too old for me
to watch you anymore
I grew past the headaches
Took out the pig tails
I stepped away
only to watch you
walk back to me
Clean from the mud
Hoping you’d lost the blanket
Agonizing as you hang on to it,
grabbing your army men
and kicking me
before your walk
back home.

I’ve got the bruise
reminding me you were here
remembering the boy,
still a boy
Still trying to keep
all his toys.

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Matthew Eduard Abuelo Comment by: Matthew Eduard Abuelo - 2008-03-25 11:08
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This read more like prose than a poem. I do like the image of watching some one you know grow up. But you can tighten some of the phrasing here and there.
driftersonline Comment by: driftersonline - 2008-02-25 19:32
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You should write TV commercials.
skypoetone Comment by: skypoetone Online- 2008-01-28 09:27
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Oh yes... I like the way you brought out the little boy, highlighting his insecurity with the blanket, his schoolboy aggression that never really left and his inability to let go of the past... all wonderfully illustrated.
Comment by: - 2008-01-19 06:53
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You brought the poem alive by the way you explained the situation. I love the ending.
I’ve got the bruise
reminding me you were here
remembering the boy,
still a boy
Still trying to keep
all his toys.
In my eyes it presents how the juvenile behaviour a man can have a lasting impression. I beleive it had alot of inner meaning and thats what i look for in a poem.
chrisporter27 Comment by: chrisporter27 - 2008-01-17 19:48
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Great way to illustrate the immaturity of men and walking away from them. Love it.
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