Concrete Jungle

My friend recently came to visit me in London, and suggested i write a poem on the London civiliaztion, and how you can relate it to a jungle...

 

 

A concrete jungle, this is where I live,

 

Instead of lush green trees, buildings of bricks.

 

The streets flow like rivers twisting and turning,

 

a never ending maze complex and confusing.

 

Big red buses roaring like jungle beasts,

 

Trains slither like captures snakes once released.

 

Withering with creatures so oblivious to reason.

 

Big iron birds now rest in hangars if steel,

 

flying only on command,  a slave to our realm.

 

A jungle this is, a city at heart,

 

so similar to nature, yet so far apart.

 

Author's Note

It's supposed to bring to mind the similarities between a jungle, and the modern city, how similar they seem, but so far apart.

Reviews

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really impressive :)

[Annique le Roux]

brilliant! i love it! well done! i can't say much else....the way you wrote this poem so powerfully puts across how you percieve cities....amazing!

i especially love:

"A jungle this is, a city at heart,
so similar to nature, yet so far apart."

very good!

[Adelia Alighieri]

AWESOME!!!
I love these lines "The streets flow like rivers twisting and turning,
a never ending maze complex and confusing."

They're so true, so obvious...Wonders again!