If steel girders and coloured lights can bring one close to tears, the Eiffel Tower hit the mark last night with its red, white and blue colour display.
Gustave Eiffel, no doubt, would be elated that his creation could lift the spirits of today’s Parisians and those worldwide who love Paris – myself included – 126 years after the monument first appeared on the Champ de Mars.
How would you describe GUSTAVE EIFFEL’s architectural masterpiece in 35 words or less? TORONTO communication strategist and writer LOUANN BUHROWS manages to do so in 32. Originally her poem was a celebration of TORONTO’s Second Empire style George Brown House on Beverley Street, but it fits the Eiffel Tower to a “T”.
The beauty of your lines,
Your curves, draws me
You arch over me
An infinite grace
Carved in exultation
I reach out with my eyes
As you induce me
Achingly beyond touch.
Toronto Savvy 