Dec 20, 2015
WINDOW-SHOPPING
The year is nineteenten,
four years before the WWI was to start,
this boy, probably sixteen then,
now a tribute to photographer's art,
with longing in eye,
hands in his pocket,
gazing as if in the sky,
watching the object,
the object of desire,
A drum mounted on a cart,
held on display behind the window screen,
and the boy watching tight-lipped,
a flaneur,with his dreams suspended,
the dignity of window-shopping
on an NY street on a morn
The year is nineteenten,
four years before the WWI was to start,
this boy, probably sixteen then,
now a tribute to photographer's art,
with longing in eye,
hands in his pocket,
gazing as if in the sky,
watching the object,
the object of desire,
A drum mounted on a cart,
held on display behind the window screen,
and the boy watching tight-lipped,
a flaneur,with his dreams suspended,
the dignity of window-shopping
on an NY street on a morn
New York (c1910)
Beautiful picture Sushama...beautiful post. Wow... have things changed.
ReplyDeleteHave things changed? More glamour perhaps, but the longing, the desire? They too have changed. They are replaced by a craving for instant gratification +Anna .a
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