Three Short Poems About Italy

as I see it

Capri

roofless cubes, spidery with wire

cakes of azure and enzian:

above at the Villa San Michele

Rilke smiles down at the broken beaches,

coves of defiant waves, compacted sea

Pompeii

a chessboard of honest stones,

open to a sky of hushed shouts;

we huddle in a boned frame

of another life, a stopped day

Napoli

warm and secret, olive-eyed

you make a new face

as we gaze from a bus ;

an act of moment

Reviews

[Cascara (aka Sprint Goe..]

spidery with wire, broken beaches, compacted sea...lovely phrasings!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Wow! You bring alive the distinct nature of each place in so few lines, each word balanced to act like a lens Leslie.

[Relic]

The hallmarks of a good poet are observation and imagination. After looking at these places online, I can see the roofless cubes and the huddling of another life.

Excellent trilogy poem.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for the poetic journey through Italy, especially like Pompeii...
j.

[Ken Simm.]

Sketches that fit on the page so well. I can feel the sun and the light.

[Einstein Noodle]

had to go googling ..what incredible places ..were you on a tour actually? thank you for my new flower enzian ..such deep color ... your poem moves my heart to dream of taking such trips ..so many places to see in this ol' world eh1? until then i content myself to reading poems such as these to get me there ;))
E.