About the Poem
This is a poem inspired by a challenge from another poet here, Nancy Ness. She challenged us to use the phrase "It takes two" in a poem, and this was my response.
I've always been fascinated with the feelings that a busy city street can evoke at night. I'm not currently a city boy (I've lived in a cozy suburb since 1985), but my first 4 years of life were in the city, and I think it's stuck with me. There seems to be so much that the city can say to us, and this is my attempt to translate what I believe the city is telling us.
The City's Whispers |
| by Ryan Williams |
| Try walking alone one night on some bright city street. Listen to the noise and confusion and chaos that swirl around you, like the music you remember hearing the first time you fell in love. Listen hard, because intricately woven within every sound that passes you by is a whisper, a quiet voice that speaks with the wisdom only an aged and learned city can possess. And if you ever manage to fade away from the reality of it all, leaving only the intertwined rhythms that tell the stories of all the people this great city has seen, the words will finally make themselves clear: "To live, to learn, to love, it takes two . . . " |
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4 Visitor Comments
Birol
I really like this poem
Will
I live in the city, it's nice to know people don't still think of it in a bad light. Your poem also helped my research paper, so thanks.
res
like you, i'm a city girl gone suburbs, but when i go into the city, i take a minute just to listen. awesome poem
sergio
it ruled
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