Poems for Today by Ronald Weihs

In July, 2021, during the great pandemic hiatus, these poems started to write themselves. Simple,crisp and thin, they are musings and meditations about a wide variety of subjects. I uploaded them as they appeared on a website called “Poems for Today”, with images from photographs I have taken over the last two decades. Many are from trips to England, Portugal and Italy. The photos are not intended to illustrate the poems, but to keep them company on the page.

I devoted a good deal of the pandemic to learning to read and speak Italian, with the help of a lovely online teacher, one hour a week. I translated a few of the poems into Italian, with her assistance. It’s interesting to read them side by side, I think.