The many and varicolored lights,
the shapely buildings,
statuesque and artistic,
squat and tall,
wide and slender,
the lowering clouds enveloping the
insect-like busyness
of people, shadow and illumination,
stadiums, water bodies, darkness too
deep to explore,
glittering danger,
beautiful, attracting, and
terrifying to one who grew up
and still joyfully lives in the
inky absolute nights of
sparsely populated landscapes, the
only relief to a black night the
occasional electric sparkle,
such lone stars welcoming, comforting,
contrasted with the glittering and
appalling galaxies of the city,
an intimidating profusion of glare.
(Posted for Thursday Think Tank, 7/21/11, "Nightime.")
Beautiful verse.City life is full of mysteries!
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