d e e p t ! (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} diffdrummer) wrote,@ 2004-04-01 19:18:00 |
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| Current mood: |  peaceful |
| Current music: | Billy Joel - New York State of Mind |
And Quiet Flows the Hudson
Day 4 in NewYork
River Hudson from across the living room. Don't let the tranquility fool you, NewYork is Mumbai - more cleaner, more racially diverse and lesser number of people. If you have been or lived in Mumbai or maybe Tokyo you have seen it all, NewYork is just a different version of the same.
View from the Balcony
the river runs outside the window
sauntering through generations
there has always been a crowd
hurrying by, different faces,
different guises. Sometimes
the stone quarries grew on the sides
or the trees took over,
then came the condo towers. I,
sit in one of them, ponder
from my high perch about the flow
of life, river and all things inbetween
kids sprout up, trains blaze thru'
people sport dark city coats, read
about their days before they happen
in content-lite page-rich newspapers
co-ordinate hours and seconds to the dot
I sit back and watch the pagent go by
on pursuit of things
just-out-of-reach. Where to?
To what end? I lie back,
I can almost feel the river in me.
A Barge on the Hudson
