Showing posts with label countryside. Show all posts
Showing posts with label countryside. Show all posts

Friday, August 9, 2024

Lonely, strong, nearly symmetrical

 


Thinking back to the days when kids
were running around here,
when cows were mooing, roosters
crowing, dogs barking and cats
meowing – life.

Unlike now when there’s only
mechanical clatter of machines – 
sometimes.

– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2024)

Note
This was written to accompany the photo, which shows a tree next to the remains of what used to be a farm (Lazio, Italy, southeast of Rome).