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My Midnight Friend by ~Nintyman:iconNintyman:





Feel the tempered breeze of a midnight moon
Kiss your neck,
Slowly, softly, like it means it.
Taste the icy winds dance intricate temptations of moisture on your parched tongue, as dry as the evening masque.
Lurch as the night-chill
Tickles your frozen bill,
Doing that old jig we all know,
With a slight whiff of that drunk whom we said no.

Icy callouses being exposed to the nightly tundra,
Enduring pain, eating the raw skin,
Seeking alms, nothing more.
The hungry hand opens wide,
Susceptible to the cold of the cruel night.
"Feed a poor geezer tonight, mate?"

Burning cold strikes, making the loneliness only harder.
Backs of coats flush past the beggar-man.
Sluring snide remarks, making faces with their tails.
A solemn tear drops from a hungry eye,
Ripping the air as it falls downwards,
Crashing on the barren palm,
Taut skin recoiling from the crash,
Pointing out the pain for the stingy of heart, and pocket too.

Feel the cold rise up through your thighs,
The unforgiving night-steel, a reproduced copy of a conformist regime,
Bending your free roaming spine to its strict conformist contortions.
In the corner sits a poor man.
Greasy hair spilling down his shoulders,
His face masked with the introversive spikes of a modest beard,
Compensating for his dirty jogging suit, memorable with the memory of a thousand pavements.
In front of him perched, on a tripod arm, a fleshy collection plate,
Wet,
With tears, the beat of the thudding drops striking an emotional chord.

A kind soul offers a kind hand,
Delivering dinner in one coin.
The shiny Queen's head making friends with its subject as the great coin drops.
Soothing train-chugs bring the forced acquaintance to an end.
Our meeting draws to a close so goodnight my midnight friend.
Goodnight my midnight friend,
I'll talk to you once more.
When the hour again is right,
I'll happily implore.
Que sera my midnight friend,
I'll talk to you again,
Sera sera my midnight friend,
Please take care until then.
©2004-2009 ~Nintyman
:iconnintyman:

Author's Comments

First of all, thank you to all of my brilliant friends for all their support and constructive criticisms on my work, but a special thanks to * nosugarjustanger who persuaded me to write something new, with a loose narrative. I hope you enjoy it.

This is the result of a midnight journey home (thus the name) on a train, after a late but brilliant production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". This was mostly written on the train, with me looking extremely cool and pensive, with the last couple of stanzas being written at home. I have no idea what got me writing this. I think it was just the cold.

Anyway, I really hope you enjoy this.

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:iconnintydjinn:
Wow that was so good. Heartwarming :w00t: I loved the last stanzer great use of rhym

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Lloyd: What's a philanderer? Is it something you can eat?
Raine: ^^; I don't think you'd want to eat one.
:iconilostlove:
I like it... It made me actually feel cold at first, lol. It snowed today for the first time this year, so it's been terribly cold all day... Homeless people make me sad..

But anyway, I liked your description of the man.


"Burning cold strikes, making the loneliness only harder"


Yes, yes... Well done! :D

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:spotlight-left: Actress :spotlight-right:
Currently suffering from :writersblock:
:iconnintyman:
Thanks. I thought people might enjoy that. :)

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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
:iconnintyman:
Thanks for such a nice comment. I'm flattered, and happy to make such a cool person happier! Woo!

And yes, homelessness is depressing, but I like to help people out as much as I can. As a result, I'm almost homeless myself. Oh well, share the wealth.

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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
:iconnintyman:
Wow, thank you so very much for the favourite! It means a lot to me.

*Is glad that you like poem*

Thank you so muuuch! :cuddle:

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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
:iconilostlove:
Certainly! :D

:highfive:

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:spotlight-left: Actress :spotlight-right:
Currently suffering from :writersblock:
:iconilostlove:
:hug: Share the wealth, and it will come back to you! :D

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:spotlight-left: Actress :spotlight-right:
Currently suffering from :writersblock:
:iconnintyman:
That's what I like to believe. :)

I really need to take you around London. There really are so many talented buskers (playing instruments for money etc.) and they're all awesome....which explains the tenner I lost last week on ONE TRIP to central London. Oops. Ah well, share the wealth some more!

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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
:iconilostlove:
Wow... see, I've never heard the term 'busker' before. I've seen the instrument people on movies, though, so I know what you're talking about. Lol, it must be really great if you lost him on the first trip!

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:spotlight-left: Actress :spotlight-right:
Currently suffering from :writersblock:
:iconnintyman:
There were about 5 of them, and several charity guys. You don't have buskers in America! It's what I plan doing when my writing gets rejected and I end up with the title of "Failed Writer". And I can also speak cockney. Authentic English!

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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

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