Walking in San Francisco

Remembering the useful days and childhood times, 

When the sort of reaching this megacity was just a dream.

Now, here, I am walking the streets of San Francisco 

On a bright afternoon, walking between the Ocean and the Bay 

From Avenue to Avenue day after day.

The weather plays truant here in the city, 

Making right the quip of Mark Twain :

The coldest winter is the summer in San Francisco.

Walking and speech-texting poetry despite the cold

Sounds odd? Yet is there a limit?

To fatty sentiments being of armchair evenings 

Or only of nocturnal moments of relaxation.

Sentiments evoked on a walk in the streets, 

Full of life with colourful movements, 

Of young and old from school, on way back home 

Shop windows lit on the way, traffic lights at every block.

Someone picking up a full can on the street corner,

The thriftiness of life is universal, and the struggle to live too.

People getting into homes and getting out 

Into fitness centres and out into the Balbao Park 

The children playing soccer on and off fields 

Pedestrians waiting by the traffic lights to cross

Dozens and scores each walking their miles.

Garages open; cars get in and out 

Scooters  and E-bikes on the pavement  

As they say, four seasons in a day, 

Nothing like walking in the sunshine, 

Having a girly good time 

Walking back in a drizzle that nearly drenches a while.

Well, different slopes of imagination

Poetic moments.