holding you
a faded post card
seems new
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Photo: Rome, Italy, c.b.w. 2003
Words: c.b.w. 2018
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Rome
Open
Standardopen shutters
let the sun in
begonias bloom
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Photo: Rome, c.b.w. 2003
Words: haiku, c.b.w. 2017
Sky
Standardancient gods
mix with the new
all point to the sky
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Photo: Egyptian Obelisk (Ramses II’s reign), Piazza della Rotunda, Rome, Italy, c.b.w. 2003
Words: haiku, c.b.w. 2016
Hide
Standardthe dark can’t hide
cries from the past
summer in Rome
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Photo: The Colosseum at night, Rome, c.b.w. 2002
Words: c.b.w. 2015
Faded
Fading fast,
a lost past
Crumbled stone,
falls alone
Once all told,
stories fold
Pages turned,
words are burned
Out of mind,
gone from time
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Photo: Roman Forum, c.b.w. 2003
Words: c.b.w. 2014
