My residency with The Piltdown Review has unfortunately come to an end:
is my last piece as featured poet. Check it out and let me know in the comments what you thought about it.
Merci beaucoup!
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My residency with The Piltdown Review has unfortunately come to an end:
is my last piece as featured poet. Check it out and let me know in the comments what you thought about it.
Merci beaucoup!
Jose Oseguera 
powerful and pained imagery here. I’m not an unkind person but with so many homeless, seeing someone as a human being under all that debris – I need to be reminded that I am fortunate to have a clean and comfortable life. And the image of the homeless man’s worn-through “shoes” haunts me.
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I’m glad you liked it. Thank you for visiting 🙂
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Congratulations on completing your residency, Jose. This poem is a powerful reminder for us to identify, and not compare, ourselves to others.
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Very good point. It was a true honor to have that residency. Now, onto whatever is next 😉
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To Infinity and beyond!
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That poem made me tear up, and I’m haunted by the thought of what has happened to the man. It reminds me of a man that used to wait by the bus stop each morning when I went into the office and implored each of us to give him money for food. I found him irritating… until the morning he was not there.
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Thank you for that short anecdote. I’m glad you liked this piece and that it elicited such strong emotions in you.
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I think that this one was probably my favourite. It was so realistic, even though it was poetry. I really could feel the troubles of the homeless man and that image in the beggining of the ripped shoes was quite intense and accurate, to say the least.
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Thank you for your keen observations, Mademoiselle. Unfortunately, homelessness is an epidemic in LA; an illness rooted not in poverty, but greed.
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That’s so unfortunate. There are tons of homeless people here in Greece too…
Anyways, you’re welcome.
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