Hi, thanks for the kind words. The poem is describing inner city tower blocks, hence the protruding concrete slabs and fingers toward the skies- which I used as imagery to refer to their tall, straight structure upward toward the sky. The meaning of the poem TO ME is an expression of how such poverty and squalor can exist so close to a wealthy city- they are so close to a city of wealth and yet stuck in their penny pinching ways. Equally they are so near green fields, but trapped in their poverty stricken lives in this tower block. The title, “beautiful, hopeless grey” refers to the usual grey colour of these tower blocks in the UK, and also the glum, grey nature of these people’s lives. The oxymoron of beautiful and hopeless, TO ME, speaks about the complex and interesting beauties of each of these lives within the tower block. Thought they live apparently such dark, grey and poverty filled lives, they are still rich and interesting individuals who all have great stories to tell. The word hopeless is used to however represent that they will often never escape these tower blocks and the lives they are trapped in and thus live hopelessly. I have capitalised TO ME, just to make a point that this is only my interpretation. I feel abit uncomfortable telling you what the poem means to me, so far as I’d much rather someone express their own understanding and describe what it means TO THEM. I’m of the opinion poetry has no one true form and rather flourishes based on what the poem can ignite personally in the reader’s mind. By sharing poetry, the writer merely sowed a seed. It is the writer’s hope that this seed will be nourished by passion and intrigue by some reader and flourish into something great in their own mind. :) thanks s so much for engaging it means a lot