The city night never sleeps,
its concrete face bright as day,
oblivious of the company it keeps,
neon lights shine in grand array;
a nameless streetwalker pauses and peeps,
through barred glass, at window display.
A pity city eyes never see,
by the ethereal glow of the moon,
the night sky in all starry glory
or hear its celestial tune;
eyes and ears which to squalid and gory
have gradually grown immune.
The jungle too knows no sleep;
though countenance fearsome and dark,
bright eyes pierce the nocturnal deep,
fireflies freely twinkle and spark
while the moon and stars frolic and leap
over Noah’s scotopic open ark.
Copyright ©2001 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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