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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460008" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>City of the Mindful Heart. For KV.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The inhabitants are rightly proud –<br>let’s take the guided tour…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they show you first (they’ve never been inside, <br>themselves.. though they know someone who has…) <br>the Palace, it’s still called, <br>the seat of government… throughout<br>its sometimes turbulent, sometimes complacent rule, <br>it’s stood for that central place where golden hearts<br>seek unity in national multiplicity; <br>and seek to care for multiplicity…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">not far away, that great domed building, <br>it’s been temple, church, mosque in its time, <br>been desecrated, restored, so many times; <br>and truth to tell, while it’s the symbol<br>of the nation, there are many more<br>who are proud of it, than have entered it…<br>here too, a quiet place to find<br>the unity in multiplicity…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">what will they show you next? Depends…<br>The lively Central Market, vivid in that multiplicity? <br>The great Museum and Library, where<br>The nation’s treasures (and some plunder<br>from the glory years of empires won and lost) <br>gleam like golden giants to our pygmy eyes? <br>Or perhaps the huge, round, stone Arena<br>where in former years, men fought to death<br>(some say it’s coming back..): celebrated<br>battles won; fireworks, clowns and circuses –<br>whatever brought the greatest crowds; <br>here – appalled, delighted, bored - you’ll bring<br>the children anyway – you’ll see what ‘popular’<br>means, this very day…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Traffic regulations, ever tighter, now control your tour; <br>a glimpse of lakes and parks perhaps; <br>city dwellers recovering their humanity; <br>a place to be themselves, and know it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unless you ask – guidebook carefully perused<br>before your trip – they’ll miss out that quiet <br>‘residential area’ full of blue plaques (no time to read) , <br>where peacefully, behind closed doors, <br>individuals adventure far into the mind; <br>fantasise; invent; look deep into the heart; <br>their passports are well stamped; and yet<br>there are no frontiers here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So now, you’ve done the guided tour; <br>seen everything – and yet seen nothing; <br>you’re a tourist in a foreign city; and<br>this is a working city; proud of its past, <br>shaping its future, it exists, and always has, <br>only in the present; but stay awhile, <br>you’ll find it irresistible..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the city of the mind; <br>this is the place of poetry; it’s all around; <br>Kenneth, you’ve just written<br>a comprehensive guidebook to this place; <br>called it ‘On the Nature of Poetry’; <br>an art, you say, which has for 4000 years, <br>‘distilled the spoken thoughts of mankind’; <br>a finely-carved new monument, <br>set by the lake, the park; <br>the distant view of snowy mountain; <br>how thoughtful to include a fountain; <br>how appropriate. (The guided tour<br>sets out from Place de Métaphore..) </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(Kenneth Verity, Shepheard-Walwyn, £25)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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the Palace, it’s still called, 
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