posted by Charles H. Russo on Oct 2
Photograph of a tiled Islamic pattern at the Mosquee de Paris by Jordana Shalhoub.
For the Writers Island prompt “journey,” a poem about a journey interrupted:
My new passport
is missing a stamp:
there’s no visa to that country
where we lost our hearts
and found love.
Totally unexpected,
a coup de foudre*
from that smile of recognition,
the meeting of the minds
and the souls’ kiss.
My passport needed extra pages
to tell the story of you and me:
all those arrivals and departures
spanning the globe,
charting our romance.
No visas necessary
to understand love
can’t be measured by distance
or air miles collected
visiting exotic locales.
Circumstances conspired
and our paths diverged,
traveling great distances
in opposite directions,
while longing to be together.
Bound by love
before continents intervened
and gravity pulled us apart.
Someday the globe will spin
and we’ll embrace again.
*French expression meaning a bolt (thunderbolt) from the blue.
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