When You See a Stranger

A bit of silliness for the kids. Prosody is a bit off and there are inconsistencies stanza-to-stanza, but luckily, kids don't notice

When You See a Stranger

A question for kids

 

 

You see a stranger on the street

Where would you go, if you wore his feet?

 

Is he kind to his children? Is he nice to his wife?

Or is his day troubled…and filled with strife?

 

With what kind of treat does he end his meal?

Is it ice cream and pie, or crackers with eel?

 

Is reddish purple his favorite hue?

Or greenish red, all mixed with blue?

 

Does he drive a car or row a boat?

Fly an eagle…or ride a goat?

 

How does he get where he hopes to be?

Perhaps he swings from tree-to-tree?

 

Is his family nice or zombie-esque?

Do they call to talk or only text?

 

Do they read a book or do they dance?

When danger calls do they take a chance?

 

But, asking that, a thought occurs.

Would they like your world?

Would you like theirs?

Reviews

[Betty Hermelee]

T's difficult to know what goes on in a stranger's mind... we can only imagine....something unusual, exciting, morose, who is he? a family man? a criminal? A painter....so many thought come into our minds...when we see strangers... its an interesting exercise for sure!
Warmly, B

[JessyJacob]

Hi,

I would definitely want to look like ugly because I don't want any man tostare at me, because I am scared of men, Who cheat and hurt
I frankly not so great. But I do write for a reason. I don't flaunt people because it makes them over imaginary.
If people don't like truths which I never made false , it's their short mindedness.
I think genuinely
Because people write truths or false. I do see I am not smart at finding thoughts behind face and their actions their I get cheated by and lost so much but God is great he showed his true nature and I hope he returns and he doesn't make false promises with negative reply.

People are losing mind fearing lot but I don't think so.
Even people hurt me, I hav my truth what I am..
I miss you Jay g you stopped writing?? Why

Jessy Jacob..

[JayG]

I've definitely not stopped writing, or critiquing. But with 1000 crap spams in a row this site is dead. The owner abandoned it years ago, and GoDaddy kept it open because of the ads they put up, but who will pay for an ad when they're supporting someone else's spam?

And now, whatever you may post, an hour later it's on page ten, and invisible. A day later it's buried under another 100 pages of crap.

[JessyJacob]

Hi Jay G, here someone is sayign i am troll, what does it mean? he has used very abusive language, do you think feel to write or read others. few people are writing so much s**t for them he is praising and i talk truth he is hurting me

why?

[Samuel Dickens]

It seems your thoughts are a lot like my own. We go around judging people without knowing anything about them, other than their appearance. It reminds me of how I once saw this fellow with what seemed to be a permanent scowl on his face. "He must be awful to be around", I thought. Later on, he became my supervisor and I found how wrong I'd been. He was likeable and mild--nothing at all as he had appeared. "Crackers and eel" and "fly an eagle or ride a goat"--those made me smile.

[Timeless]

Look at people hating on JayG just for leaving unpopular reviews, but Eternity is using a stolen picture of a girl, which I feel is wrong. So it’s okay for Eternity to be a creep and steal some random girl’s picture for attention on "her" garbage poetry?

Eternity and her supposedly, "Twin Sister" DESSI are puppet accounts of a man whose writing is so bad that not even the notorious JayG would leave an AI review for it. Which speaks volumes. But y’all are mad over JayG’s reviewing style? Smh.

What Eternity/DESSI is doing is predatory behavior. Poetry should speak for itself, even if the poet is Buttugly like Eternity/DESSI.

There’s no need to steal someone’s image. Eternity is a creep and a predator.

[Ms claws]

What is wrong with everybody? We are supposed to be enjoying life!
WHY pick and jab over the smallest things?
Writers' are the most imaginative people in the world!
Can't we just get along? We have a site here that gives us FREEDOM!
If you don't like something here, then, please go somewhere else!
I think this write is awesome! Thanks for posting, When You See a Stranger by JayG.

[Timeless]

Hah! Eternity anyone can do a Google reverse image on your picture and see it's a stock photo. That's not you. What's the point of using that girl's image. Either use your own image or don't use any. Poetry should speak for itself anyway. Why you lying? Are you that ugly and desperate that you have to steal a picture of a beautiful girl, just for random old men to give you any attention to you garbage poetry? Tf

[Timeless]

You do! You fuckn predator. Stealing pictures of girls you disgusting pig!

[Mysilentembrace]

This felt like I was reading a dr Seuss like story teaching children of empathy and perspectives of others.

[Brad Dehler]

I think you are very accurate here!