Taken off the Pier
There is an energy here in Brooklyn. Its palpable. People from Manhattan are moving across the Brooklyn Bridge in droves. Even with this latest surge, neighborhoods still feel like villages.
This is a place where a different neighborhoods can mean different cultures and flavors. Or, one of every restaurant can be found in the same neighborhood. But this can be said of all of NYC.
In my neighborhood, we are at the water’s edge. There is a pier, sunsets and sunrises are spectular here. We have a nature preserve which is sort of an inlet of the waters from the Atlantic Ocean. It hosts tall grass and different types of wildlife. I’ve seen seaguls, ergrets and mallards, a photographers paradise.
But the great thing about living here is that everything is at your fingertips. People come to NYC for museum visits, broadway shows and the sights. Mostly, we just go to work and go about our lives. But…it’s all at our fingertips should we choose to part take.
off the pier
nature mutes hustle –
seaguls soar
Pat R
2/06/18
For dVerse Poets Pub
You make your home sound tempting, Pat 🙂 I know exactly what you mean about living in a city that millions of tourists visit. We don’t see it with the same eyes at all.
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Sure don’t, except as I just said to someone, when we have out of town visitors.
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Then you have to see it from their point of view.
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Yeap, and that serves as a sweet reminder. Then maybe I”ll go out a little more often…for a while☺.
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As long as you have a peaceful bolt hole 🙂
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I loved NYC when I visited but it’s nice to get the perspective of someone who lives there.
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I get to see it through differents eyes when I have out of town visitors. It never gets old☺.
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So beautifully put. Love the end Haiku.
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Thank you Sumana. Glad you liked it
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #4: Pat R’s latest #haibun for #dversepoets!
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Thanks for the reblog Frank.
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My pleasure, Pat! 🙂
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I love that you have written about New York, with a pier and seagulls in your haiku!
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I know, right, lol! Most people would not put these two together. I even saw swans one spring. Have a look here
https://thoughtsandentanglements.wordpress.com/?s=Swans&submit=Search
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😊
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I can understand exactly what you mean. I’m in S. Jersey, about a twenty minute ride from Philadelphia.
It looks and sounds lovely.
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That it is. It feels like the best of both worlds here.
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It’s nice to have many options for doing things yet still have a neighborly feel…tourists do not appreciate the everyday life of a New Yorker, I imagine.
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That maybe. But lately, with Airbnb, tourists have been getting a real taste. I have a friend who does that with one of her apartments and people do come from all over and blend in with the neighbors. Its a blast😊
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What a place…. it sounds so tempting even after gentrification… and I do know about the fingertips… Stockholm is not NYC… but it’s nice to have it close by and still not live in the middle…
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Yep, it sure is. It’s that energy😊
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Sweet! 😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀
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Maybe we should learn to soar and float on the wind like the gulls. Your story was great. The hiabun said it all!
Dwight
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Thank you Dwight.
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Definitely a special vibe about Brooklyn and a sense of neighborhood and loyalty to their hometown. Good sense of place. One of my favorite novels is “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.”
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It is nice living near the ocean and a big city.
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Best of both worlds.
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Sounds interesting…the best of both worlds. I’ve never been to New York but I enjoyed the views from your haibun. Thanks for joining in.
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a well known city yet through your eyes it takes on a special feeling, its because its your home and your affection for it comes through the haibun.
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