The Sleeping City
The city slumbers
Opening her veins
to the empty
Haunted
By unfamiliar plight
Distorted
in her drowsiness
Glass shields
Protecting the fragile.
Warriors!
Triumphant in cowardice
Sullen in their glory
They hold
Enacting inaction
Slaying
While the silent assassin
Takes the weak
Slowly starving in the
Lukewarm river
of nothing
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Written about my visit to NYC during the height of the COVID19 pandemic
The Sleeping City
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maurice
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entwife
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Re: The Sleeping City
the jolting cadence adds to the power of the words. well done.
"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance" e.e. cummings
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eploscik
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this damn virus needs to be eradicated for its taken its toll on this country and your poem described perfectly its insidiousnes.
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maurice
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Re: The Sleeping City
Thanks to the both of you. I really appreciate the comments.
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rupertpupkin
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Re: The Sleeping City
Many covid poems on site at the moment and this I feel is one of the best. Loved it. Well done on the spotlight
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maurice
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Thanks. I'm honored to have been selected for the spotlight. Sorry for never replying.rupertpupkin wrote: ↑September 8th, 2020, 3:01 amMany covid poems on site at the moment and this I feel is one of the best. Loved it. Well done on the spotlight