A Desperate City Poem by April Avalon

A Desperate City

Rating: 2.7


Hello to you from the gray gloomy city,
Where crowds unconsciously worship despair,
Indulging in dangers of constant self-pity
With naive belief in the world's being fair.

They have no trust in a man's inner power,
And fortitude sounds like something unknown.
They have no poets, just ones of an hour,
Who drown at once in the thoughts of their own.

With greed they consume plain illusions for dinner,
And dress them with lies when they serve the new dishes
To those so-called 'pathological sinners'
Who find someone else's delusions delicious.

They have Friday liter-mates rather than friends
To mark that the week of no favor is ending,
But even with glasses of spirits in hands
They look worse than misery. Are they pretending?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Subodh Pandey 29 July 2011

a beautiful write but i think the dearth of poets is compensated for centuries by fyodor dostoevsky.

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Ian Bowen 10 July 2010

April, are you talking about St. Petersburg...if so, I presume you are not Russian by birth. I did however, enjoy the rhyme in 'dishes' and 'delicious'...thought that to be most inventive.10/10 Regards, Ian

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April Avalon

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