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  Waiting for the dragon

  

  By svanb, Muscat, Oman

  His shoulders are hunched His legs are crippled His hearing is dull And his voice barely audible He sees unseeing the deadened factory Stretching around his lonely abode Once he’d run through the tall grass And sung with the cacophony of birds Laughed with the springing deer And danced un...
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  Someone to cry when you die

  

  By svanb, Muscat, Oman

  As the blood flows And the life trails away The tears start to glide Each drop a glistening diamond Carving a path on the tanned faces Falling in an agonizing slowness The same path it traces Seeping into oblivion And yet, the precious don’t go wasted Every splash that makes the ground A...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Left to lie

  

  By svanb, Muscat, Oman

  There’s a man lying on the filthy road His clothes tattered torn and old His stomach bloated in a definite display Of hunger and poverty at play His eyes are weary and shut His only company a tired mutt The sun seeps from dawn to dark The dog waits without a single bark Hundreds of feet pa...