New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
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<strong>New</strong> <strong>Classic</strong> <strong>Poems</strong><br />
The Dark Side<br />
The Great Equalizer<br />
Pearl Watley Mitchell<br />
Hey, I saw it<br />
with my own eyes!<br />
What a surprise<br />
when I realized …<br />
they were all gathered there,<br />
some alone, some in pairs<br />
lounging together, so diverse<br />
brought together for good or worse<br />
soldiers, lawyers, plumbers, teachers<br />
waiters, doctors, unemployed speakers<br />
secretaries, prostitutes, and preachers<br />
laborers, writers, and illiterate creatures.<br />
I never thought I’d see the days<br />
all those people in just one place,<br />
class status truly gone,<br />
names and dates clearly shown.<br />
I strolled through and greeted them all<br />
the grass so green, the stones so tall<br />
it occurred to me, there they were buried<br />
in the great equalizer <strong>–</strong> the cemetery.<br />
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