DISTURBED PILGRIMS
...Like a distraught pilgrim
I'm going to do the Camino de Santiago
With a friend who, like me
Was a rebellious seminarian
Yesterday a believer, today a hardened atheist.
We no longer believe in no...
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Categories:
amaro, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Martial Translation COQ AU VIN
...Martial Translations
Coq au vin (Cook or wine)
by Martial, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
Hosts always invite you to dinner, Phoebe,
but are you merely an éclair to ...
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Categories:
amaro, addiction, drink, food, house,
Form: Epigram
E Dopo Tutto, Tutto Questo, Mia Bella Rosa
...E dopo tutto, tutto questo, amore mio
Ti amo, ti adoro e ti amerò per sempre
Dopo tanto trambusto e confusione
Dopo tanto caos e tribolazione
Dopo tante sfide folli
Dopo tanti divertenti conflit...
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Categories:
amaro, anger, anti bullying, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Lethal Ordeal
...L-ethal ordeal in outbreak
I-nflicts damage to humanity;
B-acteria of morbid menace
A-pplies grime so
Y-ucky.
A-bate the horrible hazard,
M-itigate the pandemic peril;
A-lleviate the terr...
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Categories:
amaro, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Acrostic Verse of Name
...A-uthor
R-ightfully
I-mplements
A-wesome
N-ote
E-mploying
A-crostic
V-erse
O-f
N-ame
A-s
M-use
A-bout
R-apture
O-perates
Topic: Birthday of Ariane Avon Amaro (August 10)
Form: ...
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Categories:
amaro, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Implement Righteous Expression
...E-xcellent
L-iterary
L-ines
E-mploy
N-atal
C-omposition
L-etting
A-uthor
I-mplement
R-ighteous
E-xpression
A-s
M-essage
A-pplies
R-emarkable
O-ptimism
Topic: Birthday of Ellen C...
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Categories:
amaro, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Light Ends Night Chill
...E-arth's
L-ovely
L-ight
E-nds
N-ight
C-hill
L-etting
A-nother
I-lluminate
R-ay
E-merge
A-s
M-orn
A-nd
R-adiance
O-pen
Topic: Birthday of Ellen Claire D. Amaro (January 09)
For...
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Categories:
amaro, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Neapolitan Song-L'Ammore Amaro Nun Divent Maje Doce-Bitter Love Can Never Turn Sweet
...Chistu uaglione 'nquiet che guard luntano e aspett...
sta c'ercan chella femmena sincera che tut
e pene fa frni: quanno a speranza nun s' trova;
bella uagliona, a chi staje asptann chest...
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Categories:
amaro, absence, addiction, death, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Amaro Yin
...Daughter of Okello
Bright like a lather of the unknown in the forest
Her sound thunders in my heart like cannon
My hands are dark with charcoal like the tire of mkokoteni
Amaro yin
Anyaka amie...
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Categories:
amaro, romance, sad love,
Form: Epic
Ad Amore, Iii
...Beatrice: Riguardi verso l'omorose some
che alma ea portando e antitìpe
ne 'l loro esser oltraggio oltre l'addome.
Name 'ntelletto quivi arri...
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Categories:
amaro, allegory, beauty, faith, heart,
Form: Terza Rima
An Ode To Amaro
...A father figure, worth his guarantee,
His name, Amaro, (like tomorrow), here you see,
a Latin name which means a bitter tree.
His name, Amaro, spurned with faith as master key;
when duty called,...
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Categories:
amaro, 11th grade, blessing, grandfather,
Form: Ode