Venice
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Brian Johnston
About 1966
Written in Venice while on my way home from the Peace Corps inTanzania. This poem won an Honorable Mention in an Oklahoma State Poetry Contest.
First lightning, then moon calm mingles
with her lights, glistens from the fingers
of salt water, as if jewels rested there;
Jewels (untouched by velvet display)
slipped upon the sea's extended hand.
Illumined in this light lie dwellings, dreams
of a thousand years, settling down…
fading, as if nature now
regrets these long fragile waters
men soil wantonly.
Yet, for a moment, the city stands defiant,
buoyant, sky-embracing,
willed aloft by those
who rose with her, ah…
from the sea, the sea.
Copyright © Brian Johnston | Year Posted 2014
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