A hideous construction site
I pass most every day
Has been totally transformed
With student artwork on display.
A city council member
Teamed up with a local school
Having students sketch Manhattan,
Ending with results so cool.
The fifth-graders painted taxis,
Famous buildings, even food
And of course, our well-known statue,
All with New York attitude.
What a wonderful solution,
Turning urban building blight
Into such creative efforts,
To the neighborhood’s delight.
*Thanks to Council Member Julie Menin
and the 5th-grade students of P.S. 183
Categories:
beautification, appreciation, art, new york,
Form: Rhyme
Corralled in Plato’s cave,
groupies of untenable shadows,
silenced their intuitions to the smoke and other sighs.
Jamaica’s capital hosted a convention
giving an ever-leaving coward’s play a stage,
now his work is done.
Senior partner and the oldest liar —
the younger roo’s handler —
watches from his own Whitman’s tower;
one man walking past the fire,
brave enough to look at the sun,
his integrity can see behind it.
Hate moved a biased hand against him,
but the truth is like The Cross,
and vanity will always seek a mirror.
Beyond any conviction,
immutable.
Forever keeping themselves,
beautiful.
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Written: 05.01.20 – 05.03.20
Inspired by the bravery, intellectual honesty and integrity of my friend Mark Koplin.
Categories:
beautification, allegory, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Narrative
God beautified Man's soul with love and his world with flowers!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
14 April 2018
Categories:
beautification, beauty, flower, god,
Form: Monoku
Breathing space of time and place. Wishing waiting wanting wantonly. And a fried ham. Jellied eels do not erode in a milky ju. And segment of an oiled asparagus is not very funny for a spoon who arrives in a headdress at a ballroom. To tell a time off is to deny a denounced pink and purple acolyte of a flower . Bud then. Bead then. Braking beaming bombing being bringing basins. Hahahaha and now a chat to a cloth. Hahahaha and a jumping scarf doing the can can dance. Xxxx beautification z
Categories:
beautification, baby,
Form: I do not know?
water soothes my soul
nature never looked better
yes i bless the rain....
Categories:
beautification, beautiful, rain, water,
Form: Haiku
on the lawn green grass
stands at attention waiting
for that fatal shear
by Marty Owens
Constance's contest "Haiku me some nature, please"
Categories:
beautification, nature,
Form: Haiku