Five Poems on the Italian Peninsula
by George Nakada
I - Toscana
Golden Tuscan fields
Offer the sun their bounty
Of grapes and olives.
II - Popmeii
Beneath the grey ash
Lays a mother and her child,
Awaiting the sun.
III - Venezia
The salty canals
Glow under the pale sunrise.
The gondolier sings.
IV - Roma
An empire of hills,
Conquered by bronze and marbel,
Sings of ages past.
V - Firenze
A Golden City,
Carved with ivory marbel,
Gives feast to the eye.