Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SIEGE, by KILE CROOK First Line: Times square is stone and bronze and glaze Last Line: What were the streets of babylon.) Subject(s): Times Square, New York | ||||||||
Times Square is stone and bronze and glaze And wheels on asphalt and a blaze Of light where unseen pappi drift. . . . Twin sumachs, finding lodgment, lift A brick on Christopher Street. . . . The phlox Has withered in your window box But through a crack in the court cement A grass blade, meek and violent, Lifts up pale green, sinks firm roots down. . . . Relentless siege is on the town. The prying surge against your piers Floats bulbs and burrs and vital spears Of rooted reeds. . . . The long attack Will loose those rivets, will win back Pre-empted soil, the smothered ground; The steel-clinched clay shall be unbound. (I know a still, New England wood Where once a thrifty hamlet stood; Where oaks and thickening maples stand.) Concrete your shores and sheath your land But still the acorn shall be peril To all your towers, steel and sterile. Build firmly! (Vines are matted on What were the streets of Babylon.) | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BACK ON TIMES SQUARE, DREAMING OF TIMES SQUARE by ALLEN GINSBERG CAVE CALL by JOHN PEPPER CLARK TIMES SQUARE by JOHN PEPPER CLARK HAPLESS HOOKERS ON TIMES SQUARE by PHILLIP CORWIN BACK ON TIMES SQUARE, DREAMING OF TIMES SQUARE' by ALLEN GINSBERG INCIDENT ON TIMES SQUARE by EDMUND PENNANT THE BOOK OF STONES AND LILIES by AMY LOWELL |
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