Body Follows Mind & Heart

A   L   O   H   A  !

See the round turret?

(It's behind the tree)

That was my apartment,

up there at the top,

on this leafy street

in West Philadelphia.

This was my view

from that turret of windows.

The city of my birth,

of my parents` also.

Waikiki Skies Portraying my Imagination

Every afternoon,

after I cleaned all the jobs,

and took all the classes,

I used to sit in that circular space

taking in the cloud

panorama.

Closing my eyes one day

I thought:

'The sun on my eyelids

n o w

is the same sun

warming up eyelids

in Waikiki.

Soon,

I believed

that I WAS

in Waikiki.

In fact I enjoyed my

daily Hawaii vacation

and soon looked forward

to it all day.

They say that

VISUALIZATION

is a magical thing.

If you can SEE,

TASTE, SMELL,

BELIEVE:

Then it is

TRUE.

Athletes do it

and win.

I used visualization

and ended up

with THIS view:

Looks more like Hawaii,

 than Haverford Avenue to me!

But sometimes I close my eyes

and imagine myself walking

in Wild West Philly,

before it was

gentrified.

Downtown,

the institutions of 

culture prestige & power

were far away

-over the 

Schuylkill River-

How could I

get over?

In my imagination,

the Philadelphia Museum of Art

still shimmers afar,

beyond the rail yards,

rose-gold,

like Athens on her Hill.

 

See the classical palace of culture?

Philadelphia Museum of Art

beyond the arch bridge.

It's really the little things,

little moments,

that stick

to our souls:

How wonderful

that YOU

& I

are sharing THIS

moment!

Thank YOU

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                   Warmly, cloudia