Arno Poems - Poems about Arno

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

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

..."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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...(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......Read the rest...