Tag: abandoned places

January 22, 2012 What has been left Post a Comment

Demolition

"Was sich ins Bleiben verschließt, schon ists das Erstarrte;
wähnt es sich sicher im Schutz des unscheinbaren Grau's? 
Warte, ein Härtestes warnt aus der Ferne das Harte. 
Wehe -: abwesender Hammer holt aus!"

(R.M. Rilke in Wolle, die Wandlung)
Huy (B)
January 4, 2012 Culture of Industry, What has been left Post a Comment

Industrial desolation

"There was a King of Liang -- a king of wondrous might --
Who kept an open palace, where music charmed the night --

Since he was Lord of Liang a thousand years have flown,
And of the towers he builded yon ruin stands alone.

There reigns a heavy silence; gaunt weeds through windows pry,
And down the streets of Liang old echoes, wailing, die."

(L.A. Cranmer-Byng in Desolation)
Herstal (B)
December 22, 2011 What has been left Post a Comment

Empty chairs at empty tables


“Phantom faces at the window, 
Phantom shadows on the floor, 
Empty chairs at empty tables where my friends will meet no more. 
Oh my friends, my friends don’t ask me 
what your sacrifice was for 
Empty chairs at empty tables 
Where my friend will sing no more.”

(Les Miserables in Empty chairs at empty tables)
Voroux-Goreux (B)

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