Emerald City by BJ Neblett

"... follow the yellow brick road."
                                The Wizard Of Oz

Emerald City

by BJ Neblett

© 2009, 2013

Up Down Angles Turns

Mountain folds and Valley bends

Origami streets

                                                                                    Serpentine buses

                                                                                    Monorail Water taxi

                                                                                    Bicycle backpack

                                    Queen Anne Chinatown

                                    Pioneer Capitol Hill

                                    Bay Sound Lake Starbucks

Riding on the bus

Glass Steel Skyscrapers a tilt

Or maybe it’s me

                                                            Latte people pass

                                                            Frappe clouds and Mocha smiles

                                                            Cappuccino dreams

Caffeine and cell phones

Pulse skips to a concrete beat

City on the move

                                                                        White Black Brown Yellow Red

                                                                        Emerald City rainbow

                                                                        North West melting pot

Steel needle phallus

Rending clouds of apathy

Begets a new dawn

                                                Mist Sprinkles Drizzle

                                                Cloudy Windy Sun peeks through

                                                Showers kiss the earth

Spring Scene by BJ Neblett

"You can observe a lot just by watching."
                                               Yogi Berra

            Spring Scene

by BJ Neblett

© 2008

Sleep no longer awaken forlorn fields

Orange sun that quenches battleship days

Escape the winter’s drowsy downy game

Chrysalis yawn wide exalt the fresh day

With raw muscles flexed in sinewy games

Pin stripped Paladins seize the verdant field

Diamond warriors engender the game

Leather and ash weapons defend the day

Horse hair missiles pervade the battle field

Live life’s game each day

On your field of dreams

Discarded Docents by BJ Neblett

"Education is what happens as you learn to live life."

                                                                            BJ Neblett

Discarded Docents

by BJ Neblett

© 2008

Hoods yawn proud metal cenotaphs

Silent sentinels of the past

Mute guardians to yesterday

Yesterday’s discarded heroes

Knights errant bone on concrete ways

Soldiers borne in strength and number

Headlights dim in rusted slumber

Sleep in majestic memory

Oh sleeping Paladins of yore

That shed sweet tears of fantasy

Bitter sweet tears coalesce and run

Lacquered dreams in a jealous sun

Melt in naked veracity

Naked plumes of heliotrope

Witness to the blind reverie

A boy I wandered blind and free

Adrift in nameless mystery

Seeking a vainglorious truth

They spoke of truth of life and death

Metallic mentors of my youth