Berlin's Nightlights by Rhonda Melanson

Berlin Nights by Lesser Ury, 1916

Berlin’s Nightlights:  A Painting

rain-drenched thoughts
viewed in parallel lenses
 
they are like children
who layer tincture upon
pigment on bleached canvas
until left with charcoal shadows

of what their daydreams
are trying to tell them

they are the streetlights
that pick up the variant hues,
making them brighter than they are

masquerading them
into delusions of greatness

who will be that one person
in the street who will achieve
some measure of immortality

while others on the sidewalk
                             imagine it?

by Rhonda Melanson

Rhonda Melanson is a poet living in Sarnia, Ontario and has been published in some online and print journals.  She has published a chapbook called gracenotes (Beret Days Press).  She is a member of the Ontario Poetry Society and a local group called AfterHours Poets.