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a wonderful evening

June 10, 2022
By mariacangro14 GOLD, Staten Island, New York
mariacangro14 GOLD, Staten Island, New York
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Favorite Quote:
“There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald


a wonderful evening—

an evening under the stars,

in italy, hardly featuring

you and me, though we love

who we are. i have blue eyes,

yours evergreen. the gondolas

upturned and nestling,

the bulbous light

bouncing off the water

and refracting, splitting the sky,

beaming, beaming, beaming,

is the smile on my face

when i look over at my company.

i melt into your gaze,

disappearing like an ore sinking

in the sea. i split from reality

and fall into the fantasy

of the future

i wish would befall us.

i see the future so evergreen,

though we can’t ever rest.

i’d curse the color baby

blue if i’d ever have a baby

with you. we’d do

something neutral, like paint

the walls green.

the fantasy breaks

against a bridge, as i marvel

at how we can be beneath

what supposedly brings

people across.

i have brown eyes

turned blue by the scene.

how evergreen

are our dreams, how delicate

is the word “our.”

i never loved who i fell

in love with because i love

you. it’s religion, it’s fulfilling

every prophecy in view.

when the vast orchestral

tunes encircle and embellish

these words i will introduce them

by saying, “this song

is about the right person.”

this song is about you.

even when not in rome,

i always have a wonderful

evening with you.

a wonderful evening, indeed.


The author's comments:

One night, a friend and I were navigating through the blurred lines between platonic and romantic love, we fantasized about moving to Italy together and starting a new life there, and just kept describing what that life would look like. I got so lost in our fragile fantasy that when I felt my eyes get heavy I didn’t realize I was crying until after we stopped talking. And I remember thinking to myself, “This is all I could ever ask for. To be so captivated by someone or something you can’t even realize you’re crying.” I hoped to mirror that feeling throughout this poem. In that fantasy, I was someone else—so convincingly that I couldn’t even discern the tears in my own eyes. But I wasn’t a different person—I was the same person in a state of crying. I didn’t have blue eyes, they were still brown. But still to this day, my friend and I know that we will always cherish that small burst of fantasy we had that night. And now, I’ve capsulated and framed it in a poem, so it will live on for eternity. 


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on Oct. 9 2022 at 11:14 pm
mariacangro14 GOLD, Staten Island, New York
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Favorite Quote:
“There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

@ElaM thank you so much ❤️

ElaM ELITE said...
on Sep. 10 2022 at 10:36 pm
ElaM ELITE, Surrey, Columbia
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Favorite Quote:
“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party; and I attended with my real face.” ~Franz Kafka

This is such a beautiful poem……

It’s really great. I wonder why it did not get editor’s choice