"New York City-The Spry Metropolis

"New York City-The Spry Metropolis
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A poem by David Hart

Tower, buzz and scurry

Oh great resilient city

Ahoy!

Alive. Scramble bustle earth's

ethnicities

On lurid quests--

A pendulum of tantric turmoil and

Blessed harmony


Quixotic city--brash,

Sangfroid merotomized and

Chrematistic--metro nonpareil.


See a myriad melange of

Tortured splenetic

Souls and great spirits

Noble and soothfast


Great city, your hecatombs

Of underground trains

Roar scream in

Hodge-podge graffiti attire


Fat fuming brattling buses

Grunt their huffpuffs,

And nervous cars scissorcut

Impatiently betwixt tarred and

Cemented streets

August and capacious


Ferruminated grey glass and steel

Towers--Aeeries in obeisance to the

Heavens, erupt in anabasis at the azure

Pearly welkin,

Humming diapasons of marvelous

Melismatic tunes

A gallimaufry of cacaphony and

Sweet sounds--the

Great Metropolis persistently

Thrives.


Streets adorned with sylph fashion

Models, conute churls, street

recrement--dazed and forgotten men,

Enticing shuck and jive

Blandishing street vendors,

Natty brujo business gentry

With their helotry on a

Ferris wheel of daily

Triumphs and defeats and

Cheeky mendicants

Shuffle along allegro vivace

Howling chorus songs amidst a

Torrent of raining dollars and

Coins floating in the skies over

The brazen metropolis.


Snuffling restaurants like hives

Humbuzz the grandiloquence,

Pithy slang and sententious

Persiflage of the day.


A truly syncratic parley

Of passions sentient

Of crimes basilic

Of arts sacerdotal and gratuitous

Of fashions arabesque and outre

Of plays frivolous and profound

Of music sericeous and truculent

Of money pursuits solonic

Of loves ascendant and descentdant

Of rejections mournful and joyous


An e'er persisting cha-cha-cha and

Boogie-woogie of the fierce

Bustling bubbling bold city,

Pendulumming pandaemoniums and

Resolutions, day

Upon pertinatious day.

David John Hart 2003 USA