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Best Genoa Poems

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Premium Member Genoa By Night
Genoa by night

Meandering streams of light
Like wisps of smoke
Wrap themselves on the hills
Of the dormant city,
Sliding towards the sea.
Genoa beautiful appears
By night too
Almost as awaiting
For...

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Categories: genoa, places,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Ekphrasis On Artist's Garden At Giverny
grand garden at Giverny
are gems gorgeously
nestling near a warm abode
where golden path lies beneath
in thick impasto and rugged strokes
transforming terrestrial moment
into amaranthine beatitude

baggy brush movement
of...

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© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: genoa, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Puttin On the Glitz - For Contest
An invitation arrives to my first dance
I'm hoping for some sweet romance
But I haven’t got a stitch to wear
Hope I find some creative flair

Top hat...

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Categories: genoa, clothes, dance, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member White Man Came, Took Everything
They sailed from ports
From Europe's past
To Ancient Civilisations
How long would they last
 
Genoa, Santander
To name just two
Galleons, traders
Who helped who
 
Distant lands 
So far from...

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Categories: genoa, adventure, faith, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Paul Valery Translation of Secret Ode
PAUL VALERY TRANSLATION: “SECRET ODE”

“Secret Ode” is a poem by the French poet Paul Valéry about collapsing after a vigorous dance, watching the sun set,...

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Categories: genoa, dance, french, night, sea,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Voyages of An Extraordinary Man
He was born in Genoa,
and his mother was Susanna;
and he set sail at the age of fourteen,
to begin a new exploration age!
His father Domenico
gave him...

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Categories: genoa, anniversary, death, family, father,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Ghost Ship
Ghost Ship
Benjamin Briggs a master, with three previous commands
Took over the ill fated ship, which was to prove to be his last stand.

The ship originally...

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Categories: genoa, history,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member More Magnificent Monuments
When we pleasantly stroll down
the streets or boulevards
of any historical city or town,
we  stops pensively and reflect deeply
by the magnificent monuments erected for the...

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Categories: genoa, history
Form: Narrative
Napoleon's Nostalgia
Corsica, oh my Corsica.
Corsica of a thousand charms,
Corsica of whose fragrance
I can distinguish from France.
I delight in your coat of arms
with an image the replica
of...

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Categories: genoa, dream,
Form: I do not know?
A Night of Romance
A night for Romance 

 Wes at on an upturned boat of the type of “the old man and the sea.”
by Ernest Hemingway used, the...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: genoa, beautiful, betrayal, birthday, blue,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Tribute To the Greatest Navigator
One of the four sons of a wool-weaver,
Christopher Columbus became a great navigator,
who went to sea to learn the sailor's skills
and later to discover a...

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Categories: genoa, adventure, father, history, inspirational,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member How To Tell An Italian Pinch From Sexual Abuse
Great Italian Lovers                      ...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: genoa, america, patriotic, romantic, sensual,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Columbus In the New World
Columbus In The New World

Three ships sailed under Spanish colours
(The Santa Maria, Niña and La Pinta)
And dropped anchor off the shores of San Salvador,
For Columbus...

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Categories: genoa, america, columbus day, culture,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Review
I'm looking into a mirror at the age in my eyes
      And the lines on a battle scarred face 
Wondering...

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Categories: genoa, life, people, places, time,
Form: Bio
The Adventures of Enea, Part 2 of 13
Enea, Embarking at Piombino

An impecunious nobleman he was,
with all the grace and arrogance of youth:
he signed with Capranica, just because
the latter (who was longer in...

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Categories: genoa,
Form: Rhyme Royal

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