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City Sketches (Set II)

Bicycle lights trickle in and out of ink black streets, the corners patrolled by golden lions. Monolith weaved from steel and glass gazes out, by candle light a stone Buddha sits, and sits. ~~~ Metal hide dragons rattle through skeletal … 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 of Ramona

Grey, concrete and dank. Ramona’s residents hated it. And secretly they hated themselves for letting it get this far. All of the green had been swallowed up by soulless constructs if scaffold and mortar and never did they try to … Continue reading

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Skilpadde and a City

The sight of Skilpadde in a city is gloriously surreal. In the vast concrete jungle of glass, steel and girders the residents of the metropolis see a colossal turtle rounding a street corner. Firstly its head pokes out past a … 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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When the Roads turned to Water

Infinity is a funny thing. In an infinite time period everything that can happen will happen. In theory, roads could not turn into water. But in an infinite universe they would eventually. So lets run with that. It was a … Continue reading

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