The Shining City – v6

I saw a mere glimpse today

(or was it just a vision

the gossamer of night)

a fleeting cherished image

of the shining city on the hill,

the promise of our future

a city with the streets of gold

high on the horizon on the mountainside

The sun a flaming ball perched there

suspended as if by wires

with tongues of orange and yellow,

gleaming across the heavens

rich crimsons and purples on the hills,

the living clouds, dancing,

as the sunset filled

my peripheral view

Seared into my memory

this moment this vision

a fleeting cherished image

of the beauty of the moving color

the fleeting scene, captured,

held within my mind

before it fell behind the distant hills

melting into the darkening sky

edited March 25, 2014

The Shining City – v6

Edited December 16, 2013

The Shining City – v5

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-shining-city-v5.html

Edited December 16, 2013

The Shining City – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-shining-city-v4.html

(editing original again)

edited July 20, 2008,

The Shining City – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/07/shining-city-v3.html

based on comments

from Chrissy Siggee, on faithwriters.com

received on 7/18.

December 11, 2006 21:55

The Shining City

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/12/shining-city.html

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