Love in the City
Life in the Cities
Oh, scenes and tales of the cities
I have had the honor to live in
the last few days brought memories
treasures, adventures, people holy or maybe sin
Growing up in a provincial Eastern Shore town
the sandy touch of the Choptank bank
and the crops of all the farms around
filled the fear as gas fills the tank
It seems small town and farming folk
felt the city was a negative resort
where all kinds of ideas, buildings
and people of different race disport
Yes I found that what they said
had a solemn clang of distrust and truth
for indeed it was a busy place indeed
packed with all the said forsooth
Yet what a wholesome adventure it became
to learn the people of different ideas and grace
embroidered the beautiful tapestry with colors
of the rainbow of the flowering human race
The jobs I had working first for the Sunpapers
in the hallowed city of my home state
leaving to become a commercial artist
there also unknowing began to comtemplate
Just what it was that would make me
who I am, teasing out the country child
found that love often became a confusion
of religious thought that told that I was wild
But from that came a lovely child
a story that I’d love to tell, yet I ran away
to that learned city of Boston, MA
like Baltimore also on a beloved bay
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But let me stay away from personal tales
so personal that could be written in weeks
for the cities also offered friends and ideas
employed with variety of backgrounds life did reek
so bountiful and varied from skyscrapers
to neighborhoods that seemed like little towns
so filled with such music box of humanity
singing songs, of angels and of clowns
The cities were not just magical in good
there were indeed confrontations with bad
often in places that revolved, like day and night
sometimes stabbing with fear, yet sometimes glad
Education became a daily light, opening the book
a book of learning and of life, with humankind
and in the stories read and heard, kisses and hugs
always always opening up your heart, soul and mind
How I would love to vividly show you
the streets of bold, loud or so so quiet
that filled the hours in apartment homes
of food to fit a somber or a fancy diet
For city life was indeed a banquet
from Baltimore to Boston, Pittsburgh, Newburyport
all became home as we are now, in a small city town
Discoveries that abundant friends give, of every sort!
Do not give city living that silly finger
or sass it with your mind and lashing tongue
for it is as round and beautiful as our globe
a song that must always gleefully be sung!
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©James M. Frase-White 1 May 2025
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