diff --git a/content/post/london-a-poem.md b/content/post/london-a-poem.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6179608 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/london-a-poem.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +title: "London - A Poem" +date: 2007-06-09T16:40:05Z +tags: ["london", "places"] +topics: ["literature", "poetry"] +picture: /img/london-cranes.jpg +draft: true +--- +My first visit to London, was during a holiday trip in 2007. Here's how I memorialized it + +> ``` +> The ancient matron grasps longingly for the sky, +> a crowd of bony fingers stretching upward, +> black threads tied to each one, +> laden with dangling bits of civilization renewed. +> +> Below, in her bowels, a gritty brown aroma, +> and clattering, grumbling, tin boxes +> scatter frantically along well-worn paths, +> long sullen with a heavy memory +> of countless other footfalls. +> +> Humming and pulsing with the life force +> of a thousand generations, +> she swells with pride at eager dawn, +> and heaves a great sigh at setting sun. +> +> She is the gray lady of the West. +> The history of the anglo man is embedded in her bricks, +> and the future of the world flows through her heart, +> and into the sea. +> ``` diff --git a/static/img/london-cranes.jpg b/static/img/london-cranes.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0d9a03 Binary files /dev/null and b/static/img/london-cranes.jpg differ