Thursday 24 November 2016

City, Night and life

Kim's photograph of Wroclaw, Poland (The challenge is to write a poem about a city at night at dVerse)



night resides in lonely streets,
in dark corners and alleys,
but then it resides in the splendours
of an illumined metropolis too;
inside well-lit windows
heated debates on air,
 nice dinner, kids raising questions,
life-insurance advertisements,
offended WhatsApp groups---
confused over controversies and information---
from the window city glows,
thresholds melt into each other;
like the city, night too is complicated
and here life gets complicated
finding boundary lines;
when its buildings glow in light
the river side by reflect
thresholds melting into each other,
and night resides here---in sleep or wake?

  

4 comments:

  1. I love the atmosphere you've created in this poem, Sreeja, with the contrast of 'dark corners and alleys' and 'splendours / of an illumined metropolis'. I especially like the way you have gone through the windows to the people inside the city.

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  2. I specially like this part because for me night blurs it all:

    and here life gets complicated
    finding boundary lines;

    Thanks for joining us Sreeja ~

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  3. Wow! Quite a composition you built.
    ...then you top it all of with, "and night resides here---in sleep or wake?"

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  4. thresholds melting into each other,
    and night resides here---in sleep or wake?

    Very well sums up the gaiety of activities when awake through the nights aside from those fast asleep!

    Hank

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