Prompt: write a poem that centers around an encounter or relationship between two people (or things) that shouldn’t really have ever met.
Una Combinazione Inaspettata
Less than 300 years have passed…
Can you believe?
For today, what is la pizza
without il pomodoro?
The flatbreads of Napoli
descendants of earlier panis focacius
supported toppings of a variety
but with no sweet, tangy base
The first tomato in Italia
from the New World by 1550 AD
Yet la marinara not enjoyed
until two centuries hence
Who can say for sure
if this culinary storia d’amore
was a happening of pure chance
or was it il destino?
Credit to John Green via The Anthropocene Reviewed for inspiration and to Wikipedia for the information contained above.