thanks to all responders…
two fair points, Bill, that I was already uneasy about.
Max
On Apr 23, 2015, at 0:12, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Pleasant ramble in couplets, Max. Two things: Not sure why 'of course'. And never have I heard mansions described as 'cute'. Maybe these are.
>
> Bill
>
> On 23/04/2015, at 11:23 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
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>> The poem gives the feeling of steep stepping - the short couplets - and the puff ...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jill
>>
>>
>> On 23/04/2015, at 2:57 AM, Max Richards wrote:
>>
>>> Climbing Queen Anne: a travelog
>>>
>>> From my hill to her hill
>>> I schlepped a steep mile
>>>
>>> down to the lake where
>>> seaplanes and goslings
>>>
>>> enjoyed spring weather,
>>> along past marinas
>>>
>>> where Seattle folk park
>>> their seaworthy assets
>>>
>>> till I found a walkway
>>> over Westlake Avenue
>>>
>>> into the dark green
>>> underskirts of Queen Anne.
>>>
>>> Steps! hundreds of them, up
>>> up up, till I ran out of puff.
>>>
>>> And found of course above
>>> the business buildings fine
>>>
>>> old houses with lake views,
>>> pausing, sharing their outlook.
>>>
>>> Above the pleasure-busy lake,
>>> yonder looms Capitol Hill
>>>
>>> with the block we look out from,
>>> peering this way 24/7,
>>>
>>> and further north the Episcopal
>>> Cathedral’s protruberance -
>>>
>>> correction: protuberance -
>>> above its elms and evergreens.
>>>
>>> Above me yet are the three
>>> transmission towers spiking
>>>
>>> the sunset in countless snaps
>>> my wife’s camera’s clicked.
>>>
>>> Walking past them now’s
>>> fulfilling, a destination
>>>
>>> achieved, to be looked back on.
>>> Down then to the smart shops,
>>>
>>> the busking guitarist
>>> with his genteel classics,
>>>
>>> and: Queen Anne’s bus stops.
>>> As the sun sinks slowly
>>>
>>> in the west over Puget Sound
>>> and Bainbridge Island
>>>
>>> we say a dubious farewell
>>> also to that damn Space Needle
>>>
>>> down that way, and this proud hill
>>> where the city’s finest still
>>>
>>> maintain cute mansions -
>>> unless they live across the lake
>>>
>>> in Capitol Hill North near
>>> even-leafier Volunteer Park.
>>>
>>> April 2015
>>> Max in Seattle
>>
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