Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BIRMINGHAM, by IDA DREAM SCHWARTZ


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BIRMINGHAM, by                    
First Line: The yellow streams / remember their crystal
Last Line: "watch me grow."
Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama


The yellow streams
remember their crystal
before the steel-mills
and the by-product plants came
to burn the nights red
with ambition and longing.
The peaceful pines
confide to April stars
of other days
before the coming of the slag-piles
and the lonesome sky-scraper
that points to heaven like an accusing finger.
The summer nights
throw a scarlet banner of industry
across a smoky sky
blending a love song
to a challenge of
"Watch me grow."





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