Tag Archives: Neon

Audacity

Wind up birds uncoil songs amongst the locked roads. A face blazes with the audacity of traffic lights changing. Lights flicker of things mother said not to look at that. Smiling Buddhas in a row sit in the great neon … Continue reading

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Neon Carnage

Bright dipper nights. Something resembling form. Dragon storm nights. Something resembling formlessness. Many colours between flicker and flare. Flashes in patterns abandoned bounce across car bonnets. Hitch rides on roving motorcycles. Colours split in puddles. Falling with raindrops. Sidewalks littered … Continue reading

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Red and Blue

City day sinks into neon mists of noodle bars and broken kanji. The night passed by police sirens that pass red and blue signals in silent chatter. ~~~ Image found here: http://anewscafe.com/2012/12/28/checkpoint-results-arrests-for-dui-driving-without-a-license-driving-with-a-suspended-license/police-siren-blurred/ NaPoWriMo day 16.

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Legion

It’s damn near enveloped the cities. Those tubes that flicker and hum, those tubes that arc dragons through rainbowed nights, those tubes that purvey easy dreams over cheap food, those tubes that splash intermittent kanji flares, those tubes that convey … Continue reading

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City Sketches (Poems)

Silvered mists roll in from the bay streaks of star light buried in the fog, boats left trailing in misted wakes. Pillars of steel and glass snake into fog blighted highs, in hazed airs the incessant swirl of abstracted neon … Continue reading

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City at Night (Ode to Blade Runner) (Poems and Fragments)

Levitating bodies of light in the night the city freed from tangible forms ~~~ The streets are empty, neon signs blaze in the haze, their buzzing eroding the silence, piece by piece. ~~~ Through the window of the train they … Continue reading

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City Lights (Poem and fragments)

The rain comes down. Comes down in sheets. Through the cloudburst haze the lights become blurred amorphous shapes flashing in the heavy dew mist. ~~~ The rain comes down in sheets against the city lights, strings of neon that splinter … Continue reading

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Side Street

Warning: These stories have adult themes. Written while listening to Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side I thought why not write something that you would never normally write, so I did. The reason I am putting them up here … Continue reading

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City At Night

A cool and crisp night in the city is illuminated by its skyscrapers, its vast columns of light. Their radiance reveals a vibrant metropolis with a enlivened population, exploring the mammoth urban jungle. On the ground level street lights kindle … Continue reading

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