Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 175

Where it found its new home.
Over Shanghai’s contemporary skyline
An aeon-lighted gallery rising above its high-rising counterparts
Looking out the window,
Dazzled by its captivating sight.
It rings a distant bell.
The lamp
After all these years, still standing upright,
Greeting its audience,
Saluting in front of cameras and posing on canvas.
Tourists, poets and artists mused by its stories
Trendily-clad youngsters learn precious history from it.
Its images travel across the globe through Instagram and Twitter.
Its antiquity brightens up the murky historical landscape.
This is the tale of a street lamp
It has witnessed Shanghai
In new and old alike.
In its ups and downs akin.
This new tale of old shanghai will not end here,
It will move on,
Til aeon.