I originally wrote this in six min. for the 6 min. challenge, but came back to it for a little editing. So, more like a thirty min. poem.

Happy Friday!


City camping––
hang a hammock between skyscrapers
and gaze out at the gray topless trees
dancing provocatively
for free in the urban jungle.

Watch for clogged streams,
cars like pebbles
stuck in the slow-moving current,
waiting for a flow to break free.

Enjoy the orderliness of noon
followed by flashes of neon
as day quits,
but is quickly outsourced
by a more flexible night moon.

What a view!
Lay back as the city’s constellations
connect beneath you.

Witness the heat,
red light to green,
fast-turning cars,
burst like logs on a campfire

before settling into a peaceful dream.
A shooting star moment,
the dying ember of desire.

Close your eyes,
but only after the city retires.


“Waterloo Sunset” The Kinks

14 responses to “City Camping”

  1. Pkmundo Avatar
    Pkmundo

    💯

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    1. Thank you. 😀

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  2. All this in thirty minutes, fabulous! I like your idea of the “flexible night moon”.

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    1. Thank you, Julie. I was rolling off the city work week kinda theme. I also thought that idea was nifty.

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  3. fabulous word pictures and what a pic !!!! I like how the first stanza establishes the pattern for the others; well observed —

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    1. Thank you, John. The photo grabbed my attention instantly. I’m missing the hammock days now, I’ll tell you.

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  4. Not. A. Chance. In. Hell…. would I do that 😂😱

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    1. I love the weightlessness of a study hammock. Safety third.

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      1. I think I would like it too – just not so high off the damn ground. Gravity might be the weakest force but it still makes one go splat lol

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  5. Wow nice pic. But not for me. 😳

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    1. I get it. I’m a bit of a thrill seeker and most definitely s risk taker.
      💜

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      1. nope I can’t 😲 but you enjoy.
        Thank you for sharing.

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      2. 😉

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  6. Alexis Towle Avatar
    Alexis Towle

    Big fat nope from me. But interesting experience.

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