Four lions watch
Over the harbour
One toward the land
Three toward the sea
Over the harbour
One toward the land
Three toward the sea
Tag: Urban
San Francisco
It is nature which most often
Takes away my breath
With feats of scale
And magnificence
Takes away my breath
With feats of scale
And magnificence
Sometimes, even we small creatures
We engineers and builders
With concrete and steel
Overcome mighty nature
Dawn apocalypse
It was a dawn
Eerie and alien
That fell like the dusk
Of a never-ending night
Eerie and alien
That fell like the dusk
Of a never-ending night
In the ebony hills, an ivory city.
This is no tourist destination. It is a small, busy, virile town of subtle charm like so many other small, busy, virile towns. You will never discover the charms if you arrive on the train and depart on the next bus.
Breathing Fire
If I could build a castle
Post sent’nels breathing fire
Would you wear glass slippers
And deign to call me sire?
Post sent’nels breathing fire
Would you wear glass slippers
And deign to call me sire?
If we could live a fairy tale
With spells, I would acquire
For you the gold that glitters
Our true love would inspire
Deliriously Happy
Yep, that’s a deliriously happy face graffiti’d onto the side of a dumpster.
Now, you can call that irony, or juxtaposition, and maybe the person who painted it there was thinking that way too.
But…
Be made of iron
Steel
Be made of steel
Be made of steel
Or iron
Yes, even better
Be made of iron
Iron ages
Rusts
Like the lines etched
In an old man’s face
Post no ills
It wasn’t a completely conscious process, but the world and everything in it has grown increasingly beautiful since April Fool’s Day, 1994 — the last day of my Microsoft tenure and the first day of… I’m still not sure what. Amazing what happens when you stop seeking the ugliness, stop cleverly attacking it and the people it attracts, stop praising yourself for your cleverness.
Cool on White-Washed Plywood
Cool
It said.
It said.
Cool
On a white-washed sheet of rough plywood
In a back alley
Beside railroad tracks
On the Vancouver waterfront.
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