All Roads Lead To Rome
written by: Iulia Halatz
All roads lead to Rome
and poetry
– Delmore Schwartz
All words lead to Love
And the poetry in the afterLove
I wish I wrote poems
For the dreamers of barren lands.
They do not go to Rome
They go to places
That cannot be.
Maybe love is a colourless, odourless
stainless haze
We see through
with the eyes of
the bricked sky,
pathless oceans
walled shrubberies
streeted lunarian trails
breathing and tingling
scents
In the perfect nightmare
of flowers…
Vines reward our sun
with the sweetness
of grapes
wedded in perpetuity with
the linear shades of amber.
From a Good Place
Where joy is an illumination
To the Place that Cannot Be
They would have worn
The silver claw
of the Moon
above their heads
nightly
daily
musingly
vibrantly…
Her published poems can be found in The Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I.
- Early Lilac Spring - March 20, 2020
- December Light - December 14, 2019
- The Merman’s Rhyme - October 10, 2019
