Monday, January 20, 2003

Streets Comments

Rating: 3.4

A man leaves the world
and the streets he lived on
grow a little shorter.
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Naomi Shihab Nye
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Mountain Man 02 February 2019

Streets at night streets at daybreak, Streets a poem of ever being.Love this poem here........

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Kayode Are 27 May 2018

The symbolism of the shortness of the street we left is striking.

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Sheila Sharpe 27 May 2018

I like the words Others live in two worlds

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Mahtab Bangalee 27 May 2018

Some people do. They sleep completely, waking refreshed. Others live in two worlds, the lost and remembered.

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Edward Kofi Louis 27 May 2018

Lost and remembered! ! Thanks for sharing.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 27 May 2018

Such a splendid poem by Noimi Shihab Nye👍👍👍

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Kevin Patrick 10 March 2016

As we pass away from the world, only out footprints remain as echoes, I think she is expressing that when we go the streets on which we live the world becomes smaller, but when we live as a collective a part of us remains within the whole and on the street. At least that's how I interpret it.

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Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye

St. Louis, Missouri
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