Arno Poems - Poems about Arno

An Ode To Florence

...The sacred lily of antiquity;
                      vital, that centuries have not defied.
                           Treasures, luminaries of Italy;
                         a preserved cultured ...

Ponte Vecchio

...Ponte Vecchio

Gift of history, an ancient relic
Clutter of the curious, devotional caravans
Different tongues, riot of voices
Spectrum of colors, collage of faces
 
Tramping hoards where hors...

Three Happy Italians

...Palazzo Strozzi near the Duomo is empty now,
The tourists having sought more grand amusements;
Perpetual restlessness the most common souvenir
They’ll be bringing home from vacation.

Giotto’s C...

Aftermath

...Reeling from the aftermath
it's hard to just let go
Feelings bottled up inside
and now they start to show...

Living two realities
I knew they would collide
Knowing that a day would come
we'd...

The Poet

...The Poet

The poet reaches for his pen
a broken heart to bare
To write the words he cannot speak
his deepest thoughts to share...

A well that springs from deep within
cannot be now contained...

Est Est Est, Part 2 of 2

..."Just take this chalk," (so went his talk, 
to servants sent before): 
"And do not balk. When you uncork 
good liquor, mark the door." 

This way, the churchman planned to pass, 
when pausing f...

The Adventures of Enea, Part 3 of 13

...Enea, at the Scottish Court

The critics claim that this is far the worst
of all the frescoes.  Enea the star?  No
inkling here.  Can that be James the First?

And that’s the Clyde?  It looks m...

Artemisia, Part 4 of 12

...Robert browning and Me (2)

Where was I with that book on Artemisia?
No Internet or Amazon back then,
So I got busy trudging round – then busier.
No joy. “American?  We’ll call you when …”
“Imp...

Noi Siamo I Barbari

...If you've ever seen Ca' Rezzonico 
seeming quite to float 
upon the Grand Canal 
as you bob in a boat, 

or if you've ever eavesdropped 
in some Trastevere alley 
some golden afternoon 
on so...

Rivalry's Children

...It was the time when art was king,
Of artists whose praises  we all sing.
Great minds there were in the Renaissance,
Through eons , unsurpassed, with little advance.

Greatness was embodied in t...

Dante's Hell Translation Canto Xxxiii Part1

...Uplifted his mouth from wild and fierce meal
That sinner, it furbishing at the hair
Of head on back of which he had to steal.

Then started: “You want I renew and share
Desperate pain which is p...

Hell Translation Canto *** Part 2

...And after had passed the two enraged by
On which I had before pointed my sight,
I turned to others evil-born my eye.

I saw one, who the form of lute have might,
If he the groin in full had only...

Canto Xxiii Hell Translation Part 2

...I stopped there, and saw two showing high rate
Of their will, on their face, to join with me;
But were hampered by narrow street and weight.

When reached us, with their eyes awry to see
Then lo...

Translation of Dante's Hell Canto Xv

...Now we along one of hard rims are brought;
And a thin spray on the  brook is fixed, 
So shield to rims and water is begot.

As Flemings, Cadsand and Bruges bewixt,
Fearing the high waves pouncing aga...

Divine Comedy Translation Canto Xiii Hell Part 2

...(Continues after part 1)

Stopped to talk, and then “Since his voice now dries”,
Told poet to me, “your time don’t lose, be fast;
But speak, and ask him, if like that more arise”.

And I to him...

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