Friday 21 October 2016

Up





Up 
in the steel grey  
sky

the millionaire cranes

are swinging back 
and forth 

and forth 

and 
back 

above 

the city's 
token planted tree 

beside a road 

where a blue
-grey bird 

is nodding

and pecking 
in roadside grit

and a man on skid row
in need of a bath
is sitting alone

in a shelter

for public 
transport guests

















9 comments:

  1. Great contrasts in this photo, Gwil.
    Your words speak volumes...great writing~

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  2. John, the 'proud' tree's a bit skinny and scrawny but he's doing his level best.

    Jan, thank you, the unseen contrast is even greater, which I'll hopefully come to in one of the next posts.

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  3. I like the picture; it is just like one of mine.

    (Please change the 'reply to comments' format back to the old way of Bard. I dont like this way; it makes me feel like I am in a race of replies.

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  4. __ Only nature can make (seed) a tree.

    Lives made
    rusty towers,
    and street lamps at the curb
    where car roofs clatter through the dust;
    tree's seed.

    _m

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  5. Rachel, I will see if I can do that. This was the way on zen because it was the only one I could get to work.

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  6. Magyar, thanks for the poem. Delightfully observed.

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  7. You need to go to comment settings and change it. It is not obvious which setting it is!

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  8. Thanks Rachel. Will try it out over the weekend.

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