A Journey of Sharing

 

 

What stays in us

Is what we have given away

Sitting atop a stony wall

Or in a graveyard where weed

Had grown

Upon dried

Red

Roses

 

What stays within us

Is the first frisson

The last touch

And the promise

We never

Made

 

Yet we kept

 

February 16, 2026

© Vahé A. Kazandjian, 2026

 

 

PS1/ I wrote these lines after a colleague sent me a note about sharing curiosity through the arts.

It reminded of a poem by Alberto Rios, inaugural state poet laureate of Arizona and the first lines of his poem entitled “The Cities Inside Us”:

                                                  We live in secret cities

                                                  And we travel unmapped roads

 

PS2/ I took this photo in the Louvre Museum, Paris.