Winter Lights in Golden Gate Park Part II, Light Show

I knew I'd see the tree made sacred

on my way back out

so I moved on from the lighting ceremony

where the Mayors were celebrated

and the witch was thrown

 I continued my glide
 into the mid-way
into the mystic




Slippin' and a-slidin'
been told a long time ago

Snow

in Golden Gate Park!

quite cold out too

Kids were encased

inside these strawberries

which began to move around

Santa's Little Helper

He doesn't know he's being captured,

can't see me

outside his plastic
candy cane tent

The gypsy driver

doesn't care

if you catch your hair

in the Ferris wheel and turn

           (Donovan)

I'm festive

on me own mellow gold

A strange classroom

under the night sky

 On to the Conservatory

of Flowers

I rested alone

sitting on a fallen tree

out behind it for a half hour

Awaiting lift-off

 A stage appeared out of the

cold darkness

of interstellar space

Top Park Cop

Supervisor Sheehey

and his family

(little one a-squirm)

and the egghead MC

no one pays attention to

Then the Conservatory

came to life

with accompanying ambient music

welling from the stage behind me

adding to the other-worldy effect

I had to get close

Like a Wedgewood figment

of my imagination

Tribal delirium

ensues

Moody blue

hallucinogenic

 threshold

A molten colored house

for the Flower Children

50 years after

the Summer of Love

Everyone is happy

everyone is laughing

I think I was peaking

right about now

The kids seem to revert

to an atavistic choreography

it got more and more unreal

I surrendered to the dream

and lost my ability

in the darkness

to capture anymore images

The tree is lit

what an installation

what an environment

Wow

I wish I had cannabis chocolate

for everyone

Up's a daisy

Santa hat High School band

a romantic scenario perhaps

Everybody is in

an altered state

of consciousness

A fast Fulton street bus

and I'm down at the Civic Center

Outside the Asian museum

An arresting visage indeed

The usual Taiko squad

to split your eardrums

A Blue Meanie Leviathan

eye candy in excelsis

City Hall certainly

had it's red white and blue

balls out too

Mayor Lee

we hardly knew ye

7 December 2017

Winter Lights in Golden Gate Park, Part I (A Short Day's Journey into Night)

Tree-Lighting

7 December 2017

The annual event augmented this year

by a fantastic light show

projected from within

the Conservatory of Flowers

And a Winter Carnival midway

through the pitch black

and chilly park

Where Haight Ashbury

meets the Park

Xmas fantasia abound

New Years babies

fill the void

left by the departed

All about the high life

for the affluent

Stanyon Street

and other sorrows

Tour buses still point out

hippie stragglers

The big trees

of Golden Gate Park

a storybook experience

every time

Actually down

with a sharp cold but

I don't want to stay home

and be all hang dog,

Events happen once

I'm headed into the Park,

deep into the trees

The tree-lighting, Santa

and two glamorous Mayors

are planned for this location

the McLaren Lodge

Ride on the Love Train

Here is the great tree

to be illuminated

at nightfall

A little acid flashback

solar light show of my own

A tiny black girl with solo keyboard

had talent and a mature voice

a little Nina Simone but happier

Decal reads:

Make America Love Again

Tired of waiting

during a desultory pre show

with songs and lapses

A fire truck showed up

with lights flashing

and Santa Claus got out

Shadows are falling

and I've been here all day

I was getting too restless

bored by lack of focus

The mayors were clearly

in no hurry to show up

I put on my figurative

figure skates

and did a double-axle

into the glowing carnival

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to

Winter Lights Part II

(Light Show)

7 December 2017