A Poem for Flash PLUS! -- Ghost Town
Berlin, Nevada, is a ghost town
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I closed my eyes and willed to dream
To dream about an old ghost town
Old West town that fell on bad times
Abandoned.
Middle of the night
Loaded the old Ford trucks, some food,
Kids and dogs, pots and pans, they left
Light of Moon, middle of the night
Kissed their fortunes teary goodbyes
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- Photo and Poem Copyright © 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved
- I'm linked with Kerry O'Connor, at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Flash 55 PLUS!, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/06/flash-55-plus.html
- Kerry's instructions were to write using exactly 55 words. The PLUS part is optional, if we meet that challenge it will be "to consider the theme of the GHOST TOWN."
- I did both.
- I'm linked with Kerry O'Connor, at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Flash 55 PLUS!, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/06/flash-55-plus.html
- Kerry's instructions were to write using exactly 55 words. The PLUS part is optional, if we meet that challenge it will be "to consider the theme of the GHOST TOWN."
- I did both.
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Labels: Cars, Flash Writing, Personal-Challenge-2017, Poem, Real Toads
posted by Jim @ 6/04/2017 08:45:00 PM
6 comments
6 Comments:
I guess there were quite a few places like that.
Your poem reminds the reader why people abandoned their towns, driven away by poverty in the great Depression.
I always imagine that moment of parting, and it always feel that they intended to come back.
it's a really sad situation...!
Such a sad situation.
kissed their fortunes teary goodbyes Nice!
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