Windows

open windows
free a wild
blue sky

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Photo: Rome, Italy, c.b.w. 2003

Words: haiku, c.b.w. 2019

Faded

holding you
a faded post card
seems new

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Photo: Rome, Italy, c.b.w. 2003

Words: c.b.w. 2018

open shutters
let the sun in
begonias bloom

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Photo: Rome, c.b.w. 2003

Words: haiku, c.b.w. 2017

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ancient 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

the 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