Oh I see, so it was ignorance... a sort of modern Upon Westminster Bridge!
I didnt get the sense it was in a city at all! A park perhaps! Nice poem
all the same
bw
SallyE
on 26/1/03 8:11 am, arthur seeley at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> CBD=The Central Business District where all the banks, building societies,
> solicitors etc have their premises. In most towns and cities you find one
> you have found them all. Arthur.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sally Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 12:10 AM
> Subject: Re: New sub: CBD ( Rewrite)
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>
> Very nice Arthur, but am I thick, havent I been listening, or what is CBD?
>
> bw
> SallyE
>
> on 25/1/03 9:35 am, arthur seeley at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> The CBD
>>
>> Sun on blasted stone glows
>> golden clean windows wink
>>
>> white clouds bloom high
>> over me and move sedately on
>>
>> the airšs clear and cold and sweet
>> as a glass of Sauterne
>>
>> trees by the memorial pruned to cups
>> bare now but budded
>>
>> a pigeon displays his wings
>> and boat-body on the blue.
>>
>> All their confusions of deeds,
>> stock and valuta useless in dim vaults
>>
>> heaped shells bar pearl
>> wadded wealth and copper coinage
>>
>> buys not one second of a morning
>> rich and full as this.
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