Urban Astronaut

PAD Challenge day 7: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Urban (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

Where the night is alive with lights

Far from star-hush, sky-wide

Far from the rolling, fir-fringed heights

Of a rural countryside

Where the only things she knew

Were gardens spilling blooms

And banter as a blush-breeze blew

Through outdoor living-rooms

…and dawn was a yellow bell

Where earth and the heavens meet

And childhood was the wink that fell

Beneath sun-bronzed bare feet

…ere Wanderlust drew her

Far from her grass-roots peace

To a Metropolitan Paradise

Of college-granted lease

Where the stars she sees at night

Sing or play basketball

Far from the rolling fir-fringed height

With no people at all

Her hills are made of glass

Gray concrete blooms with cars

Far from the wind that strums the grass

All flower-struck with stars

© Janet Martin