Every step upwards
painful than the ones before
stairways, life’s prep class
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The climb
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Shades
Hundred skin colours
and a million shades of light
admired world over
Patriotism
Pride for the nation
fluttering, soon decaying
print and piece of cloth
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Photo: Bayfront Park, Miami
Wavering
With bells and whistles
trials and tribulations
unsettled as beach
ups and downs, and sideways too
life, wavering pendulum
Contemplate
Silent, unspeaking
creating, destroying worlds
with power of words
a woman, the poetess
in mindful rumination
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Photo: Umlauf Sculpture garden and Museum, Austin, Texas.
Sculpture: Poetess, 1956, cast stone. The sculpture pays homage to Charles’ wife, Angeline Allen Umlauf, who was an art student in Chicago before becoming a poetess. Representing poetic inspiration, the sculpture also refers to Angeline who played a part in creating the Sculpture Garden.
