Tokyo Poetic

Tokyo is a poetic city. No matter what the shrine-addict and golden-age nostalgic people can say. Its true that Tokyo doesn't look like a European city: there are multiple centers, which means no real center to balance the city map; you can't find old stones on the streets, and you can't imagine that these are the walls where the poets of the past centuries stood right by, because everything is new in this megapole. No harmony of the architecture, no respect of the perspective, no esthetic rules... But Tokyo is the most poetic city I know. Because, when you have a look at it by night and you watch the insanely high buildings, and all this light in the darkness, you can see the Phoenix in the urban landscape. Tokyo has been destroyed by earthquakes, fires and bombs, hundred of times, but always reappeared because it's pure energy. Tokyo will be destroyed again, and will come back again, because it's made of people and will, not of stones.

Comments

[Noemi]

Colin-san, you're the best. I knew that you were feeling the same towards our beloved Tokyo.
I'm just afraid I have to leave the place soon, no job coming for me right now...(T_T)

[colin]

I can only agree.
Tokyo is one of those magical cities that takes a whole muddle of villages and towns and glues them together to be a city. Each one has its own identity, its own rhythm and its own nuance.
Tokyo can be an ode one day, a limerick the next then at its best a perfectly formed haiku.

[Noemi]

Si : le plaisir de partager cette émotion avec les belles âmes qui y sont réceptives ! :)

[Joh]

Il est vrai que rien ne vaut la joie de croiser ceux dans le cœur de qui résonne cette poésie... ;)