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The old ramshackle houses
With bay windows hint at another time
And age. An age of transition:
No permanency for this age,
‘Twas like copper sheen,
When touched by breath
It turned into a blueish green.
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History captures its glory
As the craftsman fingers a copper
Buddha bust with longing
Lending his name to a dynastic story.
A tarnished coating —blue green transparent;
And toxic, as, is human touch.
It brings out emotions suppressed.
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Lady Liberty embraced
Change, copper she was until
Her skin was touched by life.
And then she became verdigris.
Perchance Nature’s palette
Prefers impermanence,
Knowing well that all’s transient:
When born under sun all
Must alter anon.
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© Mumtaz N Khorakiwala
8-2-2021
Picture courtesy: https://pin.it/6Irow7V
Acknowledgements:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/11/24/verdigris-the-color-of-oxidation-statues-and-impermanence/
Verdigris: colour blueish green, copper acetates due to oxidation change the colour of copper from brown to blueish green
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