Johannesburg

From my window pane,
i behold your soulful presence.
I whose gaze is gripping,
whose passion has known 
the melancholy of nature` s  splendor.

There` s no brilliance to be compared 
to your glittering lights
in the night season.

your Meadows are charming.
your lawns unstrip like
a green carpet cast upon the mountain side,
and your streets are bustling 
with different colors, one people.

you are beautiful O` Johannesburg!
you are the symbol of  Black perfection,
the pride of Africa,
the hub of nature`s lovers.

O` let me fetch you unend
with my Western gaze.
Let me collapse your vastness
into my forlorn heart,
where your memory slays 
like a Crystal fountain
ebbing out in the midst of a Hundred Palm trees.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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Loving Iii Avatar
May 31, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Nice day hear ok something besides apartheid
Yassin Avatar
April 30, 2013 at 7:30 AM
a very nice place(city) and very sweet passionate poem well done...keep up
Guzzi Avatar
January 12, 2013 at 4:19 PM
A very nice write! We can feel the city with you..Light & Love [to hmmm or not to hmm that is the question ;)]
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