<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438309" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Journeys From the Stoop</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Journeys from the stoop, <br>I would participate with friends...<br>Sitting upon them as a child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We would use our imaginations, <br>And travel to destinations.<br>Seeking to leave, <br>Urban city life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Concrete dreams...<br>We would plant to watch grow.<br>Hoping to come back to the 'hood'<br>To show each other...<br>Who did what and did that good.<br>And share with others we then did know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet some stayed.<br>To make their corner visits regular.<br>Not moving too far from steps they made.<br>To preserve and protect a 'turf' they praised.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I look back these days...<br>After all the renovations of old neighborhoods made.<br>Wondering<br>As I look into the eyes of friends who have aged...<br>Why did they ever release their dreams, <br>To allow themselves to fade...<br>To times now discussing who among them, <br>Has gone and passed away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438309" data-title="Journeys From the Stoop de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Journeys from the stoop, I would participate with friends... Sitting upon them as a child. We would use our imaginations, And travel to destinations. Seeking to leave, Urban city life. Concrete dreams... We would plant to watch grow. Hoping t..."></div> </div> </div>

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