a celebration of Cleveland from Diane Vogel Ferri:
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| photo by Diane Vogel Ferri |
Cleveland
I see Cleveland as a time not yet come,
a book we haven’t read, the tenacious hope
of next year tangled in its bridges and highways,
beaming off the silvery water of a Great Lake.
A place where Christmas memories and food memories
are built into our bones, where you can step into a diamond
and hear an orchestra, or on any given day view a Rembrandt,
a Van Gogh, or hear poetry in a courtyard.
I believe in the Native Americans who named
our crooked river, the Traffic Guardians
welcoming you across the great divide of east and west,
into multicultural streets and towns.
In the jowls and crags of tumultuous industry
I no longer see smoke and filth - its former fame.
I see a place where Grandpa delivered ice, and
dad played catch with a Cleveland Indian on the streets of the Heights.
God’s good creation surrounds and envelops us
in the glorious greenery of the Emerald Necklace
that we wear so well, with the fearless changing
of the seasons flowing in our lifeblood.
a book we haven’t read, the tenacious hope
of next year tangled in its bridges and highways,
beaming off the silvery water of a Great Lake.
are built into our bones, where you can step into a diamond
and hear an orchestra, or on any given day view a Rembrandt,
a Van Gogh, or hear poetry in a courtyard.
our crooked river, the Traffic Guardians
welcoming you across the great divide of east and west,
into multicultural streets and towns.
I no longer see smoke and filth - its former fame.
I see a place where Grandpa delivered ice, and
dad played catch with a Cleveland Indian on the streets of the Heights.
in the glorious greenery of the Emerald Necklace
that we wear so well, with the fearless changing
of the seasons flowing in our lifeblood.
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- Link to poem at original site
- Diane's poems
- Link to Diane's blog Coexist
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