Chime

rushing about
no one hears
the clock chime

 

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Photo: View of Tower Clock from Trafalgar Square, London, c.b.w. 2011

Words: senryu, c.b.w. 2017

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Serenade

piano keys
sing to passing cars
Portland at night

 

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Photo: Burnside Street, Portland, Oregon, c.b.w. 2015

Words: haiku, c.b.w. 2016

Infinity

silent ghosts
lit by the sun
walk beside me

 

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Photo: Street Art, Capax Infiniti, Portland, Oregon, c.b.w. 2015

Words: senryu, c.b.w. 2016

 

Urban

I. urban pause

sitting in traffic
the sun glints
off strangers’ cars

II. urban solitude

the city surrounds
my skin and bones
yet I am alone

III. urban sprawl

houses stand
where a desert
once filled my view

IV. urban garden

picking garden beans
a motorcycle
roars down the road

 

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Image: New York Movie – Edward Hopper, 1939, WikiArt.org

Words: senryu, haiku, c.b.w. 2016

Part of the 2016 April Poem A Day Challenge (via Poetic Asides on Writer’s Digest) for the April 7 prompt: urban (blank).

Gray

gray clouds
roll with the Thames
waves on waves

 

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Photo: The Thames, London, c.b.w. 2011

Words: haiku, c.b.w. 2016