A Black Swan on the Thames at Midnight......

 This midnight under the cool moon

I saw a Black Swan  gracefully gliding the river Thames
as bright lights glittered green
yellow and white and red buses
bounced their way across Hammersmith Bridge
and quacking delineations of geese and ducks drifted downriver
as suddenly the Black Swan appeared
a Silhouette illumined in a shaft of moonlight
a thing of rare Blue moon Beauty
as the city of night hid her schemes and iniquities
disguised in a twinkle of fools emeralds

 and gleaming rubies reflected 

in the  black sleepy waters of the evening Thames


  Hammersmith on Thames.
Mark Hurlin Shelton
Copyright  London 1991