Venezia

 

“Venice Sunset” by Ginette Callaway

 

stained glass skies

lovers’ light

paints their promises

hushed liquid lanes

carry vespers on

hours of evening

soft whispering

maritime breezes

speak centuries

into a chorus of

stucco and stone

quiet colors of

history blending

with hopes for a

future of hearts

still stylish with youth

and its passions

a fusion of water

of land and of sky

with those yearnings

as timelessly human

as life in itself