03-27-2016, 08:54 PM
OK this is a bit dense, but I threw some changes here. Please let me know where I can improve it. To help with some of the abstract parts, please consider Escher as well as Max Ernst (Aquis Submersus).
Distantly you can just see
the building -- light sand hue -- almost
lost in brush and trees from view.
Blue spruce close partner with banyans
on the front perimeter; live oaks reach
with sweeping boughs, converge
on red mangroves that shelter
the old roman reflecting pool
curiously full of clear water.
Amidst roots of mangrove
is the way in, as water channels
through the wall eroded.
Inside marble floors flooded,
onward to wide stairs, down.
Deep they go, down,
into large dark halls
filled with cold air and darkness.
At the base dynamos sit dormant, surround
a lone metronome --
which maintains rhythm as
constant thock, thock.
Each swing and stop
maintains releases and holds
energy almost dormant, rippling
the water that exits back out again
to the pool storing it until
the whole thing starts back again.
Distantly you can just see
the building -- light sand hue -- almost
lost in brush and trees from view.
Blue spruce close partner with banyans
on the front perimeter; live oaks reach
with sweeping boughs, converge
on red mangroves that shelter
the old roman reflecting pool
curiously full of clear water.
Amidst roots of mangrove
is the way in, as water channels
through the wall eroded.
Inside marble floors flooded,
onward to wide stairs, down.
Deep they go, down,
into large dark halls
filled with cold air and darkness.
At the base dynamos sit dormant, surround
a lone metronome --
which maintains rhythm as
constant thock, thock.
Each swing and stop
maintains releases and holds
energy almost dormant, rippling
the water that exits back out again
to the pool storing it until
the whole thing starts back again.