Forbidden City

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    Forbidden City



    South gate
    Steps lead upward
    To gates of social class,
    opening to hollow courtyards
    sterile in ancient manhood.
    Painted yellow roof tiles
    Now aged to warmer gold
    Atop painted wood beauty.
    The wind in the courtyard
    Plays with planetree cotton.
    Masses of flagged groups
    Overflow northward
    To a tree flanked gate!
    Ancient female spirits
    Breath life into hidden
    Gardens.
    Northward
    To face the demons again
    -to depart and to face
    coal hill.

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    stellar commented on Forbidden City

    09-25-2009

    love the vivid imagery....Love this line, so refreshing:"Ancient female spirits breath life into hidden gardens.."
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    LenaMP commented on Forbidden City

    09-19-2009

    The orient holds so much tradition and secrets. And yet so much poverty and pain. Nicely written.
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    wheelsal commented on Forbidden City

    06-30-2009

    You must have been there to describe this so well. Very interesting but a mystery to those of us not familiar with this.
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    LexLogic commented on Forbidden City

    03-04-2009

    A civil war is still going on, most just percieve what is handed to us.While the outside rots. Nice poem
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