Eight-line Poems

Song for San Francisco

Song for San Francisco

“Humming Bird at Rest with Flowers,”
the painting implanted in memory,
but clouds gathered, rain fell,
and colours dripped in sheets,
a passing helicopter left its ghost,
the sun shone in a laundered sky
and dreams of cakes in MacArthur Park
were shattered.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 03.27.22
Prompt: Painting of humming bird on a branch with helicopter in a clouded sky.