A fine poem, full of love and pride in a great city. Makes me want to be there. Good last line, wryly tempering the tone of the rest of the piece.

Clever bit of formatting as well – is that Manhattan Island I see emerging before my eyes?

I don’t know if you have the characters available, Drake, but you can always replace the periods with   or   if you’d like a cleaner look. Expensive character-wise compared to periods, but it’s an option.

@August: That would be cleaner, but I do not have that many characters. This came in with only 21 to spare counting the dots. Too bad leading and trailing spaces are not converted to HTML by Ficly

Good Pickup JonB. I cheated and wrote the entire thing with character limits for each line. Hence the choppy word choice. This is a Ficly Challenge in the making, maybe…?

Lovely ode, and really impressive job on the outline of Lady Liberty herself. Nicely done.

it is Manhattan island THX…lol