Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Where waters tide
‘Round canyons
Carved by time
And ice,
Other canyons
Rise
Man-made
To tickle skies.
Where greenery
Respite to
Millions
Provides,
Sleep memories
Of others
Who used to there
Reside.
Where footfalls mask
The horns of cars
And rustles hold
More sway,
There breathes the city
That like me
Many call home
Today.
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This is a beautiful poem describing the wonders of Central Park. Your images are really great.
Rise
Man-made
To tickle skies.
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Thank you, Roth! I’m so glad this spoke to you! The history of Central Park, too, and the communities that were evicted to enable its construction as well as those who benefited (and continue to benefit) from having a Central Park, all are part of the fabric of this city. I love the contrasts of the old and new, the built and the natural. 🙂
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It is a wonderful unique place for a huge city like New York. Hope you are doing well through all this pandemic!
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It is a wonderful and unique place, in a city that has a lot of wonderful and unique and exasperating and inspiring and annoying aspects to it … 🙂 I’m doing okay, all told. Not simple times for anyone, but I’m counting blessings and finding many. Take good care of you, too!
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Great~ Thank you.
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wow! great photo, and a wonderful description. Really like the sky-tickling canyons. Really like the idea of the city breathing as well.
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Thank you!
Glaciers carved the island of Manhattan, and if drained out of water, there would be downward canyons to surround it, perhaps like a ‘negative’ film of its skyline. 🙂 And … yes, Central Park is considered the ‘green lung’ of the City … and many of us take a deeper breath in it as everything else recedes. Even now, even with tented field hospitals and masked everyone, it is a respite. 🙂
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This flows nicely. 🙂
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Thank you! So glad it does! 🙂
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I love your poem. It rings true. It sings to me. The poetry (8 line stanzas with line 4 and 8 rhyming) has a name. What is it? Man-made canyons tickle the sky… so clever. And the picture is so inviting. Thank you for the visit!
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I am so glad you liked it! Thank you for this delightful comment. I am so very pleased!😃
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Wonderful…
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See why you gotta come visit? 😊 of course, we are going to work on evicting a certain crowny buggar first… 😬
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Oh darlin’ …when the world has returned to some semblance of order, I’ll definitely return! 😊
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I know, I know … I just have to keep bringing it up … 😉
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No worries… You WILL know when next I go!
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You BETTER!!!!! 😉
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Don’t you worry!
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😀
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I like the comparison of the two kinds of canyons in the first stanza, one carved by water and one reaching to the sky.
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Thank you, Frank! Isn’t it amazing how so much what we make imitates in some way what already is? 🙂
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Beautiful. Photo and poem
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Thank you, my friend! 🙂
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🙂
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MAGIC WORDS, IL MAGNIFICO, CHINA
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Thanks, China! 🙂
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Reblogged this on LIVING THE DREAM.
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Central Park always looks like an impossibility – THAT park in THAT city! I love your description of sky-scrapers as geological formations, and the sense of opening.
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Thank you, Sarah! Yea, it is an impossibility and and improbability and yet … there it is. Not without a cost to many, but also with an eventual benefit to many … May we always remember all of it, in its complexity, in this complex city. 🙂 And it DOES bring a sense of opening! 🙂
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I liked the rhymes and the imagery. It’s so short and sweet, love it!
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Glad you liked it! Thanks for reading and commenting!
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An oasis, always. (K)
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Exactly! 🙂
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A beautiful tribute to an iconic park in a great city. I loved the picture!
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Thank you, Shweta! Yes, it is an amazing park in an outstanding city. 🙂
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Love that “tickling the sky”…..Central Park is the emerald gem in the midst of city life. So glad you took us there! When our children were 7 and 9 (in their mid-40s now) we visited a cousin who was a hip single woman in a high power job living right in NY City. She took us on a carriage ride around the park; to Tavern on the Green; and capped it off with great seats to see the Rockettes! Our kids still talk about that trip! 🙂 Thanks for the memories 🙂
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Yay for the memories! Sounds like you had an iconic NYC trip indeed! 🙂
I happen to be (questionably hip, not high powered but) living in NYC, just a handful of minutes walk from Central Park, and it is indeed a marvelous place to be. 🙂 A bit nuts these days, but still gorgeous. 🙂
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Nice comparison of the gracier carved canyons and the concrete canyons. I much prefer the former! Great write.
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Thanks, Beverly! Yes, nature is impressive in many ways that surpass what humans can (try to) reproduce … or imitate. That said, humans are pretty smart, and as long as they use their brilliance for good, I’m cool with it. When they don’t … well … don’t get me started … 😉
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