From Poetic Asides. Today LeeBee had us write poem inspired by a painting. I’m not too big on this type of thing, but it’s important to do it. So I did. The painting is here.
Piazza
In the distance it rose
Far from me as I approached
through desolate buildings
where no one stood
to watch as I went by.
I passed two men, two strangers there,
they shook hands to see me walking there.
It was a deal they seemed to make right then,
On what I couldn’t imagine,
so I left them in the shade of the dome
in the middle of nowhere.
I left them nowhere.
Leaving my desolation behind.
