Strawberry light, originally uploaded by Thorsten Becker.

Strawberry light
Warm and bright
The sweet taste of solitude
Inhaled with every breath

Empty streets, frozen footsteps
Worn facades, slumbering in the shadows
Arks of time, carrying within the past

Time moves slowly, patient wanderer
Evermore
Nevermore
Heretofore
Crossway of content

Hands in coat pockets
Scarf around the neck
A breeze rushing by
Ocean air chipping away the paint
Exposing
The smoothness of the wood beneath
Gloves removed, fingers touching
Stories coaxing to be uncovered

Underneath
With ease
The mind travels, squattering
To the shores of yonder
To the chattering
And while it’s just a smattering
A babbling of echoes indecipherable
It’s pleasurable
Wonderfully palpable
Memories unforgettable

© Thorsten Becker

From Wikipedia:

Strawbery Banke is an outdoor history museum located in the South End historic district of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth. It features more than 40 restored buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Colonial, Georgian, and Federal style architectures. The buildings once clustered around a waterway known as Puddle Dock, which was filled in around 1900. Today the former waterway appears as a large open space.

Tags: history, Inspirations, New England, Photography by Thorsten Becker, poetic, poetry, Strawbery Banke, Written by Thorsten Becker

This entry was posted on Friday, February 6th, 2009 at 12:27 and is filed under Sentiments. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.