Wednesday 21 August 2019

Musing over museums


What I do like about travel
Is that some places you visit
It's like entering a museum

One is entranced by unique views
As you leave crowded airport
The buildings are all different

In Holland windmills wave at you
And you get lost in Amsterdam
For not one road seems to be straight

In London and Paris museums 
Hide from traffic and tall buildings
Spires, domes and bridges and transport

Whilst in Rome and and wet Venice
Seem to be like museums themselves
Where time appears to stand stock still

Why do we revel in long gone past
For we don't really learn from it
We make mistakes over again

And when we progress, we still fail
to anticipate the future
Or live peaceably with others

Of all the mammals on Earth
We are the ugliest there is
Love profit whilst ruin our home

For now our climate is changing
To endanger our existence
And even balance of nature

Just how stupid to have done this?
Over thousands of years living
To leave none to visit museums

Image found at www.inexhibit.com.locations/london-museums-exhibitions


12 comments:

  1. You right - there's not much left to be seen. I liked your tour of the world though..

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  2. Wow, this poem takes me from paradise and tourism to a horrible reality. Makes me want to stop looking at what was to see--and change--what is!

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  3. Well said, Robin. One day, the last tree may be in a museum.

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  4. "Why do we revel in long gone past
    For we don't really learn from it
    We make mistakes over again"
    Quite a stunner this verse

    Happy Wednesday Robin

    Much❤🕊❤love

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  5. Robin, your poem speaks our sad truth. We look at our past but don't correct. In stead we keep going down the same path - repeating, repeating.

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  6. Sometimes museums do seem like stupid affairs, don't they?

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  7. Why do we revel in long gone past
    For we don't really learn from it
    We make mistakes over again
    - absolute truth!

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  8. I love your punning title, Robin! I’m with you on this one. The highpoint of any holiday or trip for me has been a museum or gallery. Two particular memories are the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and the first time I saw Michelangelo’s David in Florence. I agree that Rome and Venice are like living museums.

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  9. Love how you look at museums. Yes, places, big cities and even our planet can be included. Nice take on the prompt.

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  10. “Just how stupid to have done this?
    Over thousands of years living
    To leave none to visit museums”...So the scientists say, the world is facing a sixth wave of extinction. Sigh.
    The poem conveys a powerful message, hope we act fast to prevent our nature.

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  11. I enjoyed reading this, Robin. To me visiting those places is a means of showing respect to those who have made contributions to our development, ranging from cultural to engineering, charity or aggression. And for us, we learn by seeing.
    ..

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  12. Your poem has given me itchy feet:)

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