Rome. Venice.

How can you say no to Italy???  Certainly not I.  Whenever my agent offers me Italy, I have to accept.  The Roman streets were were sultry in the balmy summer air.  Can you believe I even encountered a flute playing afar whist I was dinning??  I followed the delicious sounds down the dark alleys and found myself witnessing a Flute and Piano Recital amongst the Ancient Roman Ruins.  How delightful!!  I wan’t able to find out the name of this wonderful artist.  I tried to find this flutist on Facebook unsuccessfully.  He will never know how much I appreciated having found him performing in this romantic and historic setting.  Someday I hope to return and present a recital in this very place.

Venice is always so splendid, magnificent, perennial.  I always feel like I’m in a living version of Romeo and Juliet in Venice.  It’s just so darn romantic.  Someday I hope to visit with my lover….

Viviana Guzman Photography:

Crisscrossed

"Full Moon in Venice" photography by Viviana

Black tears stream down my face
as I type these words of longing,

the glow of your smile
permeates my every cell.

As I look into the distance
for your fading image,

I wonder, how could we have
missed each other?

Like two owls
passing in the night,
the longing was mutual

but at different times,

what irony, what sorrow,
what bittersweet pain.

Thoughts of you are un-erase-able,
the longing, impenetrable.

We both stand inexplicably
drawn to each other,

thirsting for the other,
and then turn and walk

the separate path…

-From “Love Soliloquies” by Viviana Guzman