Best Dolce Poems

Cradled by a hammock
with the sun shining in.
Coddled with Summer fun.
Ice cream’s dripping
from a whopping sugar cone.
It’s sweet to do nothing
but tongue the licks
and swing in a basket
in the zephyr wind.

It’s sweet to read a book
as I settle in.
My heart can race,
with adventure and romance,
with...

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Everyone is an island everynow and then

and everynow and then I am an island too

till... I see the first flower of Spring blooming in my garden

I hear the  little bluebird singing on my porch

I feel the warmth of the sun melting on my skin

till...I...

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The only ounce of energy I'll be expending today
is having picked up a pen to scrawl these lines...
"I have declared this to be Dolce Far Niente Day."
Enjoying the sweet life, doing nothing by design.

I'll be spending time as I desire lazing in a chaise,
pretending I'm...

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Turning sideways, once more I lay crouched in bed,
Not compelled to wake up and run round the clock.
The family, gone on a four-day adventurous trip.
Left to myself, may I devour this calm with none to block.

Listening to the hiss of falling rain, here I lie.
The...

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"Buonjiorno carina, hello sweetheart" 
he says with a smile and a stroke of goatee 
Her acqua di Gio is fantasy art,      
un dolce far niente that lingered in scent; 

"La Spiaggia, the beach?"  
he points on to it with...

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Allow thoughts to drift on empty plain 
Watch them settle like gentle rain
Forget to rush, live in slow motion
Hear your soul, invest in the notion

Resist the urge of mind overload
Turn off highway, take scenic road
Lie quite still, give yourself the time
Regenerate and hear inner self...

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Il doce far niente - - -
the sweetness of doing nothing

That's my conviction
as I'm living

life as a Poet.
It feels as if

I'm doing something constructive
as I work on poems

Time passes so swiftly
It's like I'm

encompassed in a dream
while I go about

my daily ritual.
It's a sensation

of serenity, contentedness
that...

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The thing I must do’s just the thing I can’t.
It’s my artistic nature, I suppose.
Impatient, volatile and – heaven knows –
disposed to overthrow, subvert, supplant,
less drawn to things that are than those that aren’t.
A deft, exquisite ode trumps plodding prose;
four hours of labour, twenty of...

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La Dolce Vita  Part One 

How sweet life is, indeed!
The air we breathe, our nightly rest.
Think back about your very first
steps.
You played games outdoors with
your nose not stuck to a screen.
You romped in the woods ever so
merrily.
Days of conviviality with no fear.
Just endless days and nights
with...

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Life of the holy man, sequestered, unnatural 
A fancy hat atop his red gown for his alleluia…

Down on the lowly branches lands a red bird
On natural wild wings he sings a mating woo
Loved for his striking feathers, he’ll fare well
Colors of precious blood, make him...

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The sweetness of doing nothing in a day
On umber earth and mid birds singing in spring.

Spending leisure time in a suspended
Bed hung up by each end between two trees.

We sit gazing at the heavens in the clear night sky,
A theater of dancing stars flitting with...

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Sunshine glistens through the oaks and pines, trees
Revealing the wonders of God’s sweet light
Hearts reminded of those who’re so at ease

Washing away the cares who’re just not right
Since we’re yearning for the joy in leisure
Revealing the wonders of God’s sweet light

Relaxing brings us our greatest...

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THE BENCH BY THE LAKE

In the cold fall morning,
the bench by the bay lies empty,
do I vision what the bench envisions?
in the vast scenario of nature.

The sight from the bench must be enchanting,
it must be wonderful to watch flock of geese and ducks frolicking,
the sight...

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Dolce far niente – it’s sweet
to do simply nothing. So say
those who find idleness a treat.
We should try this Italian way!

For a change – eat lunch all alone.
Dolce far niente – it’s sweet.
Turn off the TV and cell phone.
Meal time does not have to be...

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'dolce far niente', is an Italian idiom means 'sweetness of doing nothing


It's humdrum of work twenty four seven
thrumming a suffocated heart to burnout
too many tabs open in frantic switching
moments of leisure in despair and doubt.

Can't I pause a while to look around nature?
a peacock dancing...

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