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If buses rattle over streets
At least you jounce on comfy seats.  
Imagine a divan
Made from a frying pan
Or griddles cushioned by felt sheets.
Zywa May 17
In narrow alleys,

people cling close together --


escaping the sun.
Collection "Local interest"
RRey May 13
It is the year where sky forgot blue,
Where trees are myths and grass untrue.
Cities stretch like steel-born gods,
But hearts inside beat with no odds.

Clones walk straighter than men once did,
Smiling soft with secrets hid.
They do not lie, they do not bleed—
Perfect servants to human greed.

No prayers now, no gods to call,
Just neon faith on a digital wall.
Churches are bars, mosques are screens,
Hope sold in pixelated dreams.

Rain falls black, with silver tint,
As if the sky forgot to rinse.
But still, it falls—gift or guilt?
A mercy from a heaven spilt.

The air is cold, but not from snow,
From silence, smoke, and things we know:
That love is rare, and trust extinct,
And touch is just a nervous link.

And me?
I walk the ashlight street,
My feet the last to feel this beat.
No god, no green, no truth to find—
Just broken stars in humankind.
It's about the future That's comming soon...
Steve Page May 12
Imagine no shadows, no night.
All light
everywhere.
No need for shade.
For we are all basking
in one all enveloping
Light.

And we shall see his face.
A pause on Revelations 22 vv 4 and 5.  Blows my mind.
City buses bounce and jolt
As though to loosen every bolt.  
The shocks must be missing,
A leak would be hissing.  
Or is it the potholes at fault?
Mariah Apr 18
When we all see
That when they said
It takes a village
It was meant
Literally
Bello.
Non ** idea del perché.
Ma è bello questo paesaggio.

Grazie, cittadella in riposo.
Grazie, cielo puro e ammaliante.
Grazie, finestra cara,
che mi hai dato la possibilità
di vedere questo invisibile spettacolo.

Case semplici, piante non molto alte, alcune secche,
come in una terra all’industria
del necessario e il minimo per il buono.

Luce di lampioni
che illumina disordinata le strade,
come se il panico diurno fosse
congelato nel tempo dalla luce.
Eppure, anche nella pace,
l’uomo lo trascina con sé.

Tralicci che tagliano un cielo
senza nuvole e senza stelle,
non degno di essere amato dagli urbani,
che cercano solo il bello canonico,
antico, sterile.

Ma fortemente illuminato dalle città, il cielo,
che lo uccidono per convenienza.
E noi, sordi,
nemmeno ne udiamo il grido.

E poi, laggiù in fondo,
oltre l’autostrada,
altri grandi lampioni.
Pagane colonne d’Ercole,
Ignorate per voler del nostro
antropocentrismo,
lasciate a sbiadire
sul fondale.

Tutto nel silenzio di un istante
che non si apprezza più,
perché è memoria lontana
il tempo da perdere.


Non è nulla di che, a pensarci.
Eppure mi affascina.
La prima volta che, forse,
e dico solo forse,
trovo la magia nell’ordinario.

Forse ora capisco i grandi scrittori.
Forse la capirò meglio anch’io,
se davvero c’è magia.

Comunque,
so solo che questa visione è ferma,
vuota, angosciante per certi versi,
disperata,
morta.

Mi fa paura.

Ma, nonostante ciò,
mi fa stare bene.
E ne sono grato.

Grazie, cittaccia assassina.
Grazie, falso cielo ormai defunto.
Grazie, finestra svelatrice,
che mi hai permesso di vedere
questo melodrammatico spettacolo.

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Beautiful.
I have no idea why.
But this landscape is beautiful.

Thank you, citadel in repose.
Thank you, pure and enchanting sky.
Thank you, dear window,
that you gave me the chance
to see this invisible spectacle.

Simple houses, plants not very tall, some dry,
as in a land of industry
of the necessary and the minimum for the good.

Light of street lamps
that illuminates the streets in a disorderly way,
as if the daytime panic was
frozen in time by the light.
And yet, even in peace,
man drags it with him.

Pylons that cut a sky
without clouds and without stars,
not worthy of being loved by urbanites,
who seek only the canonical beauty,
ancient, sterile.

But strongly illuminated by cities, the sky,
that **** it for convenience.
And we, deaf,
do not even hear its cry.

And then, down there,
beyond the highway,
other large streetlights.
Pagan Pillars of Hercules,
Ignored by the will of our
anthropocentrism,
left to fade
on the seabed.

All in the silence of a moment
that is no longer appreciated,
because it is a distant memory
the time to waste.

It is nothing special, if you think about it.
And yet it fascinates me.
The first time that, perhaps,
and I say only perhaps,
I find magic in the ordinary.

Perhaps now I understand the great writers.
Perhaps I will understand it better too,
if there really is magic.

In any case,
I only know that this vision is still,
empty, distressing in some ways,
desperate,
dead.

It scares me.

But, despite this,
it makes me feel good.
And I am grateful for it.

Thank you, murderous city.
Thank you, false sky now defunct.
Thank you, revealing window,
that allowed me to see
this melodramatic spectacle.
When the view talks
ChinHooi Ng Apr 15
When it rains, some people run a little
tucking sighs into their collars  
my knuckles tap lightly
on the backseat window
shattering a string of clammy
question marks
you said, we met too soon
before we’d learned how to love
and now I’m grinding restless days  
sharpening them into matchsticks
waiting for a sunny day
to strike some sparks
the rain, keeps stitching up fissures  
while the city slips and slides in puddles
our conversations hang  
like wet clothes dripping on the laundry line  
awaiting the next sun to dry and turn them into  
transparent answers.
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