"City Lines" Andrea Lim Tangled electric cables are always part of the sky's scenes, The day looks owned by many and conquered by some, Maya claws holding thin lines. Whether the clouds finally share its load to the ground or the sun thinks it is the only star, everyone is always under the weather. You remember one rainy Talamban morning and feathers clinging on wings made for false progress and resilience, silent flight above heights. You remember that late afternoon you called your apartment home because the loved closed its door for you. With tree-barren mountains and construction here and there, you ask if you are building a life. No cloud is drying, no soil is not harsh. Living means remembering breathing spaces in which no one but you crash to make a point. Then the city presents itself on a star-filled night devoid of the color black yet not of the dark unfolding it's never-enough narrow roads with your story to tell, unsettled dust just around and the dead-end street happiness.
NOTEBOOK From the poem answer the following questions. 1. How does the author describe the city? 2. What words did she use to describe it? 3. Do you agree with the author's description? Why? 4. What do you have in mind as you read the poem? Use any appropriate multimedia to share the idea you have. Send it to your teacher when you're done.
