Location NY

Blog64:

Location NY … so much to sing, breathe, live out loud!

 

On Yom Kippur … holy day of prayer and celebration

At Battery Park …

People come together

As if an invitation just got out

And all dash and roam every which way …

School boys on scooters

Pigtail-haired girls on skates

Thumb-sucking toddlers nap in strollers

Women and men pedal bikes

Wrapped in wind breakers, fashionable tights, and sporty shoes!

Bare tops or clad in breathable outfit

Out they race and ride the mild winds

Jog … walk … muse … stretch …

Laugh … cuddle …kiss … hold hands …

They sprint in pairs

They dart in hoards

They scuttle … alone!

Pet lovers parade their pride and joy …

          Bulldogs … Shih-tzus … Pomeranians … Dachshunds … Mutts!

 

At Greenwich Street … people gather on a more subdued resolve

Directions gathered … passes obtained …

People from all walks of life and nations

Bear long lines to pay tribute to the fallen and survivors

Of 9.11.01 World Trade Center assaults.

There, again almost majestic, resilient …

One WTC spire soars up the sky

Amidst workers and cranes hoisting steel beams, curtain wall panels

An Oculus comes to shape nearby

Core walls move on and up … slowly, but confidently!

One can’t avoid nostalgia …

One can’t evade somber, muted recollections of horrific times.

 

Turn at another corner and closely observe …

Shared memories surround the sites of dismal, dark milieu

In one scene, sweeping panoramic images

Of heart-wrenching recovery work

In another stand tributes to lives lost …

Still in a far distant corner, ‘Voices of Promise’

And at the center of it all … in a prominent locale …

Water Falls at Memorial Site mimics a cycle of repose:

It invites reflection on ‘courage … compassion of those who risked lives

It rejoices over those who hung on to life after the shocks passed

It revels on those who lived to reminisce on the splendor of life

It cheers on the wonderful memories of ones left behind.

 

Painful … sobering … agonizing … markers of aversion!

Astonishing … breathtaking … amazing rallying of compassion!

 

Location NY … so much to remember, reminisce, account!