City Squares

City Squares


Claustrophobic city squares 

Shadows through lanes 
illuminated by cold filtered light 
Antique like heads of marbled stone 
Conjure up the past 

Dreadful voids transformed 
in warm lit beauty of the day 
caught between the  surreal 
and concrete demands of day 

Faceless figures of faceless masses 
enthroned puppets without strings 
dance the dance of shadows 
we stood on the threshold of our dreams 

Opening streams beyond melancholy 
within the void and interplay of form and time 
pure in its nature of itself stoic and so free 
beyond these painted words 
that sings on tinted page 

Secrets primal in their meanings 
beneath the elements of appearance 
come to life in the awareness 
of its spontaneity
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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