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Mabel A. Dilley
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

0 posted 2001-05-12 06:59 PM

Some rooftop looming site
quelled street-racket in flight
climbing up long sweet summer evenings
on the water-tank.

Leaning back your head to the night vault
swarming with stars and every constellation
breaking away into fiery threads -
you knew your way among them.

You knew you were part of them
until you sat straight up
and saw the lost city of dreadful light
where once you dreamed.

Streaming a living city overhead
webbed and knotted
bristling with we and all the others
known and unknown.

Living life between the stars,
the windows on brownstone steps
that went striding the avenues
in our fiery hair.

Feeling in them maps
unscrolling into long breakneck
express plunges as darkly
we felt our own blood
and longed to know
the endings of stories.

"I am not now that which I have been."

Saunni
Senior Member

since 2000-07-11

Posts 1777
West Virginia

1 posted 2001-05-12 07:17 PM

What an amazing poem here! Great write!

Sauni

Sauni :)
Have you ever known the color grey when the nighttime finds you weak
I have, I've walked that road each time; that's where my angel sleeps

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

2 posted 2001-05-12 07:17 PM

I like your picture of evenings in the city. Joyce

Tiersdin
Member Elite

since 2000-11-17

Posts 2364
east coast

3 posted 2001-05-12 09:26 PM

Beautifully told...

~Tier

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 2001-05-12 09:52 PM

Wonderful!!! Unique!! oh, and I really enjoyed this poem!

Mabel A. Dilley
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

5 posted 2001-05-12 11:10 PM

Thank you all so much for sharing the view from atop a water tower.

"I am not now that which I have been."

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

6 posted 2001-05-13 12:03 PM

I love going to the rooftops of buildings downtown...thanks for taking me to your water tower, it was fun!

~*~ I write ~ Therefore I am ~*~

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Mabel A. Dilley
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

7 posted 2001-05-13 09:37 PM

Mysteria: wonderful story behind this climb to the water tank complete with sweet memories and a ticket for trespassing!! lol

"I am not now that which I have been."

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