Best Fresco Poems

We met in Valletta city on a fine November day
Introductions...hugs and kisses; we got talking straight away.
All agreed to go sight-seeing – architecture , harbour...

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Were I a restaurant proprietor
Al fresco and exclusively for poets
My menu would be cryptic metaphors
Original from memories echoic

Spring rhymes of happy times and brighter days
Fresh...

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I step into the temple
in search of painted dreams
Figures wrapped in irresistible shine 
they come to life within their fresco prisons
A kaleidoscope of painted saints
powerless...

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Rampage rumbling water roars dig the shores
Heavy hard they grapple trees and humans
Tumbling turner tides glide no one adore
Frightened humans, they run! Run and run...

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tantalizing Tulips announced their delightful arrival soon,
              magnificent world waking up after...

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Reclining
A horizontal loneliness
An archaic white fresco
Fixed above as a quaking pendulum
The voice of a god or an echo booming
As mother, as nihilist, as thunder cloud,
Dropping...

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The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in...

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At the flower market
I found spice, holy water,
cobblestoned obsidian dreams,
but no flowers.

The blustery Tuscany day
showed me its underlying graffiti,
incantations of poetica esoterica, 
and yet another...

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I greet each scarlet dawn
with its promise of renewal
as if it was the first
or the last,
ever to be enjoyed.
The stuff of dreams,
hope gets renewed
with the...

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Sautéed scallops on the skirts of Italy
Debutantes of a chardonnay shimmy 
Mediterranean terraces of broached stars
Gucci wallets moonlighting baroque hearts
Manolo Blahnik legs lavishly luring
High heel...

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“When from nowhere gloomy clouds veer,
from nature’s scenery I get gems of cheer.”- By Poet


As the air ripples with the rhythmic joy of spring, 
the...

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As the storm clouds of unforeseen gloom hover low
with the shattered sky’s diffused light of uncertain future,
I gift my soul sinking within the abyss of...

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Winter is gone. Warm weather is here, and what better way to enjoy it than with a 
picnic?

Shade
Ants
Watermelon
Potato Salad
Checkered Cloth
Lemonade
Wicker Basket
Fried Chicken
Meadow
Wildflowers
Snooze
Al Fresco
Iced Tea
Paper Plates
Cutlery
Kite
Salt...

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Michelangelo had the vision,
To paint a fresco from his heart.
For it would surpass his time,
To be seen as remarkable art.

The Sistine Chapel’s ceiling,
Displays the inception...

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Michaelangelo: 1475-1564    Leonardo Da Vinci: 1452-1519                ...

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