The climb

Aqua building, Chicago

Every step upwards

painful than the ones before

stairways, life’s prep class

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Photo: Aqua building, is an 82-story mixed-use residential skyscraper in the Lakeshore East development in downtown Chicago, Illinois.

Shades

NYC skyline
NYC skyline from the Staten Island Ferry

Hundred skin colours

and a million shades of light

admired world over

Wavering

Building in Pasadena, California

With bells and whistles

trials and tribulations

unsettled as beach

ups and downs, and sideways too

life, wavering pendulum

Contemplate

Poetess, Umlauf Sculpture Garden, Austin, Texas

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.