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Empire State Building
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Loafer Like
Single mother
With Her children
Empire State Building
Soars high feet firm
Towering beauty
Humble form
Brother in law kind
Took sightseeing
To her height
Queue for tickets
For elevator wait
Similar security checks
Of airport gates
To the top on our way
For keepsake
Short photo breaks. Pay Fifteen dollars.
Collect the same before exiting.
Reach balcony, elemental feel.
Azure sky bright visible
‘In fifty years, it was not such a day’
They said.
Tower top, many greedy eyes-
Travel unravels with personal device.
Cameras, binoculars
Gold washed sunshine touching blue
On ground level, serpentine, asphalt
Flow boldly through.
Skyscrapers uneven, shelters very tall grew.
Concrete-wonder trap green pursue…
Imprisoned trees
Central Park peeps, in between eyes rove once again.
Around the surrounding Atlantic blue draped Manhattan.
this old country boy sees that on the tele and can't understand how people can live that way. No wonder they pay so much up there. The stress must be high level.
HK
Great write. Wow. I've never thought of the Empire State Building this way, but I love it. You could be a teacher, even though in a way you are with your poetry. You're smart, creative, compassionate, etc.
I take it you enjoyed your trip. For all the marvels man can create, they don't hold a light to the least that God made.
Good write. You captured the scene well with the wonderment of a child.
Hugs and Peace
HK