Best Adriatic Poems

A night in Venice (in sotto voce)


Moonlight shimmers over the Adriatic sea
Stars dancing on the waves in perfect symmetry
We talk of ancient adventure and gallantry

Masquerading...

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Devastated at the news I've heard.
Totally shocked this is absurd
The passing of a Welsh legend
Proud to have served my butty friend.

He started his long career
As...

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O Serenissima,*fabled city 
guarding the bluest lagoon, remain
the Queen of the Adriatic Sea;
on a gondola I glide while
the gondolier sings to luminous stars.

Under bridges of...

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Erstwhile his skin was beautiful as an obsidian, with great markings alongside his face, as was the likeness of the Benin people; an imagery so...

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Wading in waters
Tainted as Mexico's Gulf
Yet creek bed shallow

Flaling in waters
Murky as an old river
Qualms rising chest high

Drowning in waters
Falling like Niagara
Adriatic deep

Drifting on waters
From...

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Moonlight was the only light to make streaks across
a sky full of suspense which even a thief was afraid of;
and as I dragged you along...

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911

West Gaza Strip...

911

Muslim Islam Arab 

911

IRAQ

911

Adriatic Sea

911

Nostradamus

911

Mongols

911

Baghdad

911

0800 IRAN...

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I'd like to see Venice,
the city of eternal peace
to which poets and painters flock;
the sunset' hues are impressive at dusk.  


I'd like to ride...

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Creativity given to a pen
moved by a thoughtful man,
divulges ideas with a steady rhythm...
not minding noises, just writing what pleases him.


Find him dreaming on a...

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In the tower of poems
Singing about everything under the sun
His eyes like the Adriatic sun
He travelled with beauty
And danced with it
Till the end of life
Till...

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This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie...

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Spellbound by the shimmering moonlight by the silent lagoon,
the oldest witness to every lover's secrets in enchanted Venice,
whispering soft words, afraid of being stolen by...

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A BEAUTIFUL LATIN GIRL

From South America I
Find a girl gifted and
endowed with beauty
My humble Latin woman
Of great and terracious honour

Eyes like a tempest blue sea
So...

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A cat on a baking tray does not require a lid or a helmet. And driving very fast is good for a fish knife. Laughter...

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Talismanic turbans trade togas. How great. Short grin large grin. Big beam. And now an elephant in baggy trousers dancing. Peachtree waving. Chutney calling. Tantric...

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