Best Francesca Poems

I was pushed to write this comparison after reading the poem on Byron by the souper poet Gary Bateman.
Wandering on internet I found the Byron's version of Francesca's words in CANTO V of Dante's Hell and I was curious to compare his translation with mine....

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After I just heard my guide in this trip
Speaking of ancient women and of  knights,
Pity I felt, then had loss to outstrip.

I began: “Poet , desire now me incites
To speak with those two going in a pair
Looking so light up in the wind their...

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As Hermes once took to his feathers light,
When lulled Argus, baffled, swooned and slept,
So on a Delphic reed, my idle spright
So played, so charmed, so conquered, so bereft
The dragon-world of all its hundred eyes;
And seeing it asleep, so fled away,
Not to pure Ida with its...

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Eyes shimmer sky-kissed blue.
Cheeks whisper a rosy hue.
Smiles and laughter breakthrough,
When we play fun peekaboo.

Lips create Cupid’s bow.
Hair sun-kissed strawberry flow.
Sense of calm rests below,
As I watch you bloom and grow.

Painting radiant beams,
With irresistible gleam.
Dancing through rich daydreams,
Developing self esteem.

Little sister that’s true.
Learning skills each...

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DELLA FRANCESCA

meticulous mystery
so picturesque
en passant...

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serene detachment
in an enigmatic
renaissnce...

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She sits like a song
In her rocking chair.
Grace evident - Smiling radiant
Power curling on spun glass.
Bound to a solitude --"Welcome, Old Friend"
Moving as if to escape the skin;
Magic beats her heart, brights her eyes.
Thoughts ignite her hands.
Wisdom firing from her fingers....
-Ink is the escape.

Her hands...

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francesca

i met you too late francesca 
there with your purple dotted dress 
sitting alone in a lilac world 
tears streaming from brokenness 

somehow 
i knew your desires 

and all that you wanted  

that you needed 
to add color to your world 

and you did...

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Piero della Francesca
painter of thr Quattro centra 
long neglected but still so serene
'til "Downron' returned him to our screen...

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PRESPECTIVISTA fracesca uccello
sophisticated
  two- dimensional
picture
  space
 proportionzl
 & measured
vanishing point
in
parallels
of
distorted
  aesthetic
    assumptions
of
natural
reality
in
i!lusions
  made
possible
in
spatial
  horizontals
of
receding
  versimultude
In
muted
   contrasts...

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Your hand
As so inclined
Am I to show that love refined
Itself to friendship

Yet in that lowly
Friendly act
There still remains the simple fact
As lips touch skin

Respectful blessing
Is released
And worried brow becomes uncreased
For lips they linger..

Just a while..
To transfer more than just a smile
They wish to walk the...

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