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a city built around a tree

there is a place i want to see

          which no man yet has seen

a city built around a tree

          where it has always been

where animals feed off the fruits

and no man's dared to step his boots

          where flirting sun in sky just smiles and preens

 

a city built around a tree

          which no man yet has seen?

how could a city none could see

          be built and always been?

who built it if it wasn't man?

could animals, and if they can

          would they also build zoos for you and me?

 

(C)2012, Christos Rigakos

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christos-rigakos
Published
Oct 10, 2012
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Two septet stanzas of ABABCCB rhyme scheme which follow the structure of Eros & Psyche, except for the meter of 4-3-4-3-4-4-5.

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