Best Gondola Poems

Hello my exotic, glorious maiden,
By now they all know you are taken.
I possessively, poetically, clearly, and eloquently
Told them you are promised to me, a sensual, delicately,       
Known beauty, could not marry a canal walk about, a 
Wannabe, curling his...

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Gondola Found Floating on a Village Green

Before play was performed had a rehearsal
With artists who did have a wide dispersal
Of talent that in show was highly required
So each of them had to be quickly hired.

Scenery needed to have props here and there
And after a while...

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Gliding on moonlit waves
Gold filters through row boat,
Gondola twirls…it’s song
Gently romancing hours .
Guitar plays lovers’ dream,
Gay the breaths of passion
Glossing canoe’s night sail !


Pleiades G : Kim Merryman
12`01`2016
checked at www.howmanysyllables .com
and Webster's dictionary...

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last night it rained hard in the gondola— I had no umbrella...
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New Monoku
April 3, 2016...

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A Gondola Ride With Me

Yes, the water waves,
And it feels so nice when the breeze comes in
-And touches our faces.
And the people wave and their words sound so nice.
Love is in the air and it tastes salty
and I can see in your eyes
That you would...

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Mesmeric gondola ride
Hypnotic lull 
Water barely moving
Dipping and dripping
With barely a sound
Beauty of silence
Gently trailing my fingers under the water
Utterly relaxed
Luxuriating in God’s beauty
Italy’s loveliness
Coaxing me into a gentle nap...

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My hand touched warm water,
yet all in life seemed so absurd.
I'd gone to sleep, forgotten the power
the absolute privilege..
to the spoken word.    

"Where do our friends go" I asked Giorgia Boscolo
"when wake of your gondola reaches the sea?"
My gondoliera answered naught but...

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