Poetry
Mute Witnesses
The evening stars
Are mute witnesses
To passers-by
On cobblestone road,
The lights in
The café terrace
And nearby tenements
And chic businesses
Prove brighter
Than their heavenly observers
In the indigo sky.
Yellow warmth
Bathed the customers
Sipping on tea, perhaps
Dining, bathed farther
Into the closeness of themselves.
Positive human interaction,
A seemingly dying art
Practised by walkers & sitters—
Dutch painter's
Idea of peace—
[ Inspired by the painting Café Terrace At Night by Vincent Van Gogh. ]
Dee Allen
African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California U.S.A. Active in creative writing & spoken word since the early 1990s. Author of 10 books: Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, Skeletal Black, Rusty Gallows: Passages Against Hate, Plans, Crimson Stain, Discovery and his newest just released, The Mansion. Dee also has 77 anthology appearances under his figurative belt so far.