Written By
Poet and Photographer J H Martin @ A Coat for a Monkey
UNTIL THE SPRING
Ugly are
Those winter buildings
Covered in underwear
Far beneath which
I sit and paint
My gallery of spring
In these lines
Of brightest green and blue
These swirls of new life
That snake around the rusted pipes
And make their way upwards
Ever upwards
From these mountain tops of trash
And these rivers of sewers
As they draw their strength
And nurture their growth
From the discarded and the forgotten
Here
Buried in this bacteria
Is not the melancholy of autumn
But the bright and violent promise of the spring
A spring that will seize and free
These cities of the blind
From the consumption of its winter
And lead us onwards
Ever onwards
To the summer of our natural freedom
Where its new shoots will broaden
The narrow vision of these one-way streets
And blossom in their squalid cracks
Replacing each and every one
Of its failed and brutal concrete aesthetics
With the glorious and ever-changing
Concepts of the new
Si, hasta la primavera
Mi hermano y mi hermana
Para siempre
Para siempre
Text © J H Martin
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J H’s Previous Contributions To Edge Of Humanity Magazine
A Breeze Of Sorrow Passing Over Emptiness
“…you know you can’t sleep there” | Passages Of A Homeless Person’s Life
Life On The Irrawaddy’s Muddy Waters
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