Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Vacation is over and now it's back to drawing pictures and writing poems for YouTube. Our goal in this series is to both complete all 101 Poetry Prompts, and complete a drawing for each picture. It is a marathon undertaking, but we can do it if we are dedicated and persistent. In the end we will have a notebook filled with biographical pictures and drawings for some future generation to find. I might even print up a few copies if anyone wants to see the final work.
63 City Lights
1
This is a two part story,
From Colorado to Maryland,
And it may suggest what condition,
Our condition is in.
2
Laying face-up on a barn roof in Colorado,
Free from TV, phones, and cars,
Between Colorado Springs and Denver,
We marveled at the stars.
3
Even as children,
We knew this was a special place,
At this time and elevation,
We had a clear view of outer space.
4
Fast forward forty years,
It is the 1995 Christmas season,
Santa brought me a telescope,
I think my hints were the reason.
5
I guess that’s how Christmas goes,
With no kids around to glee,
As I’d longed for a telescope,
Now I’d have one in DC.
6
I got it out and set it up,
But the thing hardly worked,
All I saw was washed out haze,
Everywhere that I looked.
7
I got into it a little deeper,
And try as I might,
I had traded my 1958 view of outer space,
For a view of city lights.
Vacation is over and now it's back to drawing pictures and writing poems for YouTube. Our goal in this series is to both complete all 101 Poetry Prompts, and complete a drawing for each picture. It is a marathon undertaking, but we can do it if we are dedicated and persistent. In the end we will have a notebook filled with biographical pictures and drawings for some future generation to find. I might even print up a few copies if anyone wants to see the final work.
63 City Lights
1
This is a two part story,
From Colorado to Maryland,
And it may suggest what condition,
Our condition is in.
2
Laying face-up on a barn roof in Colorado,
Free from TV, phones, and cars,
Between Colorado Springs and Denver,
We marveled at the stars.
3
Even as children,
We knew this was a special place,
At this time and elevation,
We had a clear view of outer space.
4
Fast forward forty years,
It is the 1995 Christmas season,
Santa brought me a telescope,
I think my hints were the reason.
5
I guess that’s how Christmas goes,
With no kids around to glee,
As I’d longed for a telescope,
Now I’d have one in DC.
6
I got it out and set it up,
But the thing hardly worked,
All I saw was washed out haze,
Everywhere that I looked.
7
I got into it a little deeper,
And try as I might,
I had traded my 1958 view of outer space,
For a view of city lights.
