Best Francesco Poems

fleetingly lost in the moment
 my finger tips barely touch you
though I'm enveloped
   contained
      wholly embraced
  ...

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a wealthy young man ,son of a cloth merchant man!
handsome deep brown eyes and dark brown hair!
singing sweet melodies breathing fresh air!
young and free rich...

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He wrote poems calling Laura`s name
He felt hopeless, endless pain
For his love was in vain
But it gave him fame

And blessed be the moment
The day, month,...

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Venice, the daughter of the sea
Winding paths, waterways or cobblestones roads
Rulers of the renaissance, noblemen would be
Her navy full of conquests, her triumphs all would...

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MONA LISA

For ten years his paint brushes danced to the motion
of his hands on a white Lombardy poplar panel,
creating inimitable effects with the image he...

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Tracing the silhouette of her 
hourglass shape, 
I think of succulent lemons,

those ripe citrus display
of  pure divinity 
just waiting to be peeled 
and deliberately...

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"The Wanton Rapture Blazing"

I hear you in the ribbons that sing
tied to poles of gallantry where charged
with acts of misadventure love carried me
to your walls,...

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Two, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas,
Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees, 
Francesco’s outboard boat heads out...

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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...

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Right now, are you feeling unsatisfied
with whatever you have in possessions?
Always feel stressed, some sort of depression
for not having what's desired, to be pride.

Feel of...

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Brothers Giuliano and Lorenzo de Medici
were co-rulers of medieval Florence in Italy.
Giuliano was murdered by a rival family.
The assassins were from the family, Pazzi.
They were...

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 'Roses from all nations scintillate in complete harmony'   

A Rose by any other Name - by Maria Williams

ROSE OF SHARON

Voyage of repatriated...

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Francesco Guardi so prolific
the love of painting made him tick
He captured Venetian atmosphere
topography now held so dear...

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Grandpa Francesco Proia,
from Caserta, Italia,
a clever stowaway 
in the bowels of the ship
bringing him to Ellis Island,
Feb. 4, 1905.
Gruff ways,
often snarling a guttural “Huh,”
a lack...

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Rome's Francesco Succarelli
painted landscapes so easily
Much admired  once they do say
sadly forgotten today...

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