Posts tagged Vanities
Vanities
Sunrise over the City of London City Skyline As much as the Tarpeian rock lies next to the Capitol The morning lights shine like a funeral pyre A graveyard of towers raised to the vanity of temporal fortunes Rulers of our times are dinosaurs of the future But what bones do the Tyrannosaurus Rex in […]
Standing in line along the muddy River Thames embankments Like giant glass and steel refrigerators in an open-air display Indifferent seagulls and other urban birds feast on the low ebb decay Something grand and yet decadent reflects from this skyline of human vanities Dying immortals at the Nuremberg stadium under black white red banners The […]