Rooftops

rooftops

Florentine Roof tops

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Beautiful asymmetry

Stuccoed walls

Tiled red

Undulating crevices

Gutters that conceal

While cracks reveal…

Murky pasts

Broken dreams

Caged hearts

Upended lives

That hide in the shadows

And seek sanctuary beneath

These rooftops

6 thoughts on “Rooftops

  1. Daisy Patel

    very nice simi
    human beings basic needs food, cloth and shelter
    very nice poem
    and i love these types of roofs bcoz bahut cool hota hain :)))

  2. Tulika

    Lovely lines Simi…….loved the way you have written about the lives of the people living beneath these rooftops.

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