Posts Tagged: abandoned places
No more singing in the stadium
On January 21, 2020
- What has been left
“Why — do they shut me out of Heaven?
Did I sing — too loud?
But — I can sing a little minor,
Timid as a bird.”
(E. Dickinson in Further poems of Emily Dickinson)
Herstal (B)
Walking to a dead workshop
On December 4, 2019
- Culture of Industry
“My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired
And the clouds are weeping.
Did I hear someone tell a lie?
Did I hear someone’s distant cry?”
(Bob Dylan in Love sick)
Liège (B)
The door has remained open, the miners never come back
On August 8, 2019
- Culture of Industry
"And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted -- "Open then the Door! "You know how little while we have to stay, "And, once departed, may return no more."" (Based on a Persian text by Hakim Omar Khayyám) Genk (B)
Colourful meeting at a former mining site
On July 15, 2019
- What has been left
“Black as coal they fell to their knees
For no one could hear their pleas
They wheezed and wheezed until no more
For the air they breathed was poor.”
(M. Moise in Ode to the miners)
Colfontaine (B)