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
