Best Io Poems
"Wishing Well"
Plain Jane blew her wishes
down a wishing well
Lit long white bless'ed candles
dipped in holy water
Brackish
Crocodile tears from Hell
Witches hold hands together
Stand united
show and tell
Plain Jane
knows her subjects inside out
Sisters plain and simple
holding hands
united
standing by the
Wishing Well
(LadyLabyrinth/2019)
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- ALL WOMEN -
Plainly seen, undecorated but never Simple
Competition: "She Inspires Series KH Poetry Contest"
Muse: ""Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do."
Katherine Hepburn
Sponsored: Maureen McGreavy
Deadline: Sunday 12/1/2020 12:00am
Categories:
io, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Cinnamon and apple fill the air
Scent of Gram's famous pie
Warm fire roaring in the hall
Music turned up for all to hear
"Vivo per lei da quando sai
La prima volta l’ho incontrata,
Non mi ricordo come ma
Mi è entrata dentro e c’è restata.
Vivo per lei perché mi fa
Vibrare forte l’anima,
Vivo per lei e non è un peso.
Vivo per lei anch’io lo sai
E tu non esserne geloso,
Lei è di tutti quelli che
Hanno un bisogno sempre acceso,
Come uno stereo in camera,
Di chi è da solo e adesso sa,
Che è unico per lui, per questo
Io vivo per lei....."
Thoughts of you ring in my mind
Playing the music in my soul
A burning desire
Making my heart beat strong
Vivo per lei
I live for her
My warmth, my breath, my soul
Taking my lonely
Making it whole
My heartbeat, my strength, my home
From the depths of my heart
to your soul
My vision, my meaning, my know
Even though far, we really are near
Oceans apart but I feel your touch
Sweet music is all that I hear
Whispering I love you so much
*** "Vivo per lei" by Andrea Bocelli ***
Categories:
io, love,
Form:
Free verse
Assures their breed a place among unknowns,
lest Europe and Asia part of their realms.
Peacock Butterfly, hues-full Inachis,
their uppermost topsides reveal truth bids,
yet undersides are black-like camouflage,
predators amiss, perplexed by mirage,
afears further by fake four eyes on wings,
and hissing sounds. The flower's nectar brings
life spans. They're killed whilst hibernating by
wood mice, and birds like Tit birds when they fly.
Folklore's namesake, Hera's Priestess Io,
eyed by Zeus, held by Hera as a cow.
A year's crawl and sleep, another takes flight,
climbing ivy draws and flowers, delight.
Categories:
allusion, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Paint the Sky with Stars
9/26/2023
Oh, my! How does our beloved God do all this?
It keeps this poetess to be grateful and humble.
Creating for us a stunning sky of atmospheric bliss?
And io live in soulful peace and stop all the grumble.
To fly through life with sparkling, stained glass wings.
To be able to sing the song of the oceanic seas.
Stop any and all pretenses that I know everything.
And to realize, the world was made for you and me!
Let the dove of peace in me, be ashine in poetry.
Then, in serenity, a deep breath, like angels wings.
For this, God, I do need your endless, loving company.
Perhaps I made another soul lighter and able to sing!
Categories:
io, how i feel, imagery,
Form:
Quintain (English)
NOSTALGIA/MEMORIES
Ah quanta nostalgia
Ah what memories
Mentre tutto va
When everything’s going
Oltre I limiti della mia fantasia
Beyond your wildest dreams
Dove tutto e paradise se
Where all is paradise
Giorni di liberta di festa
A day of freedom and celebration
La musica dolce suorna
The sweet music plays
Io pensavo e stato giusto
I thought it was right
Questa melodia
What melody
Passione
Passion
Voli e brividi
Thrills and dreams
Tranquillita
Peace
Categories:
introspection, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Change me Lord and make me whole,
Renew my body, mind and soul.
Create in me, a brand new thing,
Wash me on the inside and make me clean.
Take out the junk that’s in my heart,
Please heavenly father, give me a brand new start.
I have always tried doing it my own way,
But dear Jesus I surrender to you my all today.
Change me Lord, my all to you I give,
In your word I truly want to live.
I want your spirit in everything I do,
Io want to be more like you.
I want your spirit to dwell deep inside of me,
I no longer want to be bond, but I want to be totally free.
All things must come to and end,
And I refuse to let the devil win.
I want to eat of your word morning noon and night,
Lord, I want to be pleasing in you sight.
It takes commitment, fasting and prayer,
With a sincere heart, you will be there.
Change me father from the inside out,
Serving you is what it’s all about.
Use me Lord, let me be heard,
I want to help spread your holy word.
On bended knees and a humble heart,
Change me Lord, even if you have to take me apart.
Change me Lord, my body, mind and soul,
I am ready to be made whole.
Categories:
inspirational, life, me, me,
Form:
Personification
Ole Tyree was a tourist from Texas
who went to a rock and roll nexus.
He yo-del-io-ed
in Sun Stu-d-io
that's how he got kicked out of Memphis.
11-14-14
Categories:
io,
Form:
Limerick
I have never forgotten our love
And I will never forget it until I die
Many years of sorrow have passed
But the wound in my heart has never healed
Remember the many kisses we exchanged
Remember all the tears we shed
The burning kisses and the scalding tears
That to the depths of the sea have gone
I have not forgotten this love
How could you have forgotten it?
A love that bound us like a chain
A chain that can never be broken
You still return to me in my dreams at night
Before my eyes I see you every day
How many sweet nights we passed together
How cruel the destiny that has betrayed us.
No peace shall it find in the presence of God
This infamous cruel destiny that betrayed us
Infamous - cruel and heartless
That separated us for all eternity
What remains is just your picture for remembrance
I never grow weary of gazing upon it
I kiss it, I bathe it with my tears, I hold it to my heart
And weep for the sad ending of our love.
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O Vera Ammore Non Si Scorda Mai
Numaggio mai scurdate e chesta ammore
E nummo scorde chiu' sino che' more
Sono passati tant'anni di dolore
E num si e' chiuse chiu' sta chiaga o core
Ricordi quanti vase ce simmo date
Ricordi quante lacrimo chiagnute
Vase e fuoche e lacrime cucente
Che tutte a funne o mare sene' so ghiute
Io non meso' scordate a chesta ammore
Tu comme tu putive mai scurda'
E' stato nammore troppo incatenato
Catene che nun si ponne mai spezza'
Mi viene ancora nsuonno tutte e' notte
Ti vego o iotnre nante all'uocchi miei
Quante nuttate doce avimmo passate
E penza e distino nfame che cia' tradute
Nun'anna trava' pace nanzi a dio
Chella nfama ca ci fece o trarimento
Nfame e scelleratee senza core
Ci fece sparte a nuie etermamente
Me' remase o ritratto tuoi pe ricordo
Nun me stancasso mai du guarda'
O' vase o' bagne e lacrime mo strengo o' core
E chigane a fine triste e checsta ammore.
By Giuseppe Pasquale Liguori and Robert James Liguori
Categories:
io, love,
Form:
Free verse
Quando tutti i giorni sono fatti,
e soltanto le nostre anime rimangono
su questo posto e quando persino le fazioni di
buon e lotta diabolica, ancora sarò il vostro e sarete mine.
Ti amo ed io amili, anche quando tutto
sembra perso e niente sarà mai ancora di destra.
I hope you feel the same, my love.
Categories:
io, faith, friendship, love,
Form:
Free verse
RESTA QUI CON ME / STAY HERE WITH ME
Non pensare al passato
Do not think of the past
Io ti ritrovero
I will find you
Ne son sicuro sai verrai
I am sure of it you know
Io passo amare sole te
I can love only you
Il sogno che non muore
The dream will not die
Resta qui con me
Stay here with me
Io saroper te
Ill be yours
Tu che sei mia
You who are mine
Noi saremo insieme
We are together
Un mondo nuovo da cercare
A new world to seek
E non ti pentirai se adesso ti aprirai
And you wont forget it
If now you open up
Io cherca di esser tu il
Primo che ci sta a rinunciare
I try to be the first who reaches out
Tu convincerti che si puo
Stare da soli
You are convinced you can stay alone
Perche la solitudine diventa l’abitudine
Because loneliness becomes a habit
Sono qui conte e non ti lascero
I am here with you and I wont leave you
Tu es sei parte di me
You are part of me
Categories:
absence, love, relationship,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Tutti sappiamo che la vita è un sogno.
Ora che dormo incontro tanta gente
Le cui vicende raccontare agogno.
We all know that life is dream
Now while sleeping I meet many people
Whose events to recount I covet
Nel sogno vivo ciò che la mia mente
Ha raccolto in passato, le emozioni
Che nel tempo ancor non si son spente.
Dreaming I live what my mind
In the past has collected, the emotions
Which after time are not yet expired.
Come una nebbia sono le visioni
Ma dopo il sogno inver ricordo tutto
Creando in versi chiare descrizioni.
As a fog are indeed my visions
But after dreaming I remember all
Putting in verses clear descriptions.
Vedo venire avanti un uomo asciutto
Il volto acceso da una luce intensa
Del suo dolore interno esprime il frutto.
I see come forward a quite thin man
His face lit by a bright light
Of his internal pain the result expresses.
“Primo io fui”, disse, “ora ripensa
A quando fui internato dentro a un campo.
Ricordi ancor? È una vergogna immensa.
”Primo I was”, he told me, “now think
When I was interned in a camp.
Do you remember? An immense shame.
Nudi eravamo e offesi senza scampo
Privi di tutto dentro a un luogo immondo.
A migliaia morivano in un lampo.
We were naked, offended with no escape
Deprived of everything in a dirty place.
In thousand died in a flashing trice.
Quelle vicende vissi fino in fondo.
Quando mi riappropriai della mia vita
Se questo è un uomo chiesi a tutto il mondo.”
Those events I lived through and through.
When I again impropriated of my life
If this is a man I asked all the world.
Categories:
io, dream,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Visitation
Said Gorbelung to Gorbeling,
Flying in their spaceship thing,
"Over there is planet Earth,
I wonder what it's really worth."
So travelling at the speed of light,
Which gave their spacedog quite a fright,
And leaving Saturn in the rear,
They came upon the pale blue sphere.
Said Gorbeling to Gorbelung,
When transposed to Earthly tongue,
“Down there is a little man,
Let's communicate if we can.”
Then sliding back a tiny panel
And opening a communication channel,
They beamed a light and hissing sound,
From the spaceship to the ground.
To Arthur on his hands and knees
In his garden planting peas.
Space dog Io gave a yelp,
Thinking perhaps this might help.
Seeing the light from heaven to ground
And startled by the sudden sound
Arthur ran to tell his wife,
“An Alien spoke to me upon my life.”
“What did it say?” his wife remarked,
“It shone a light and then it barked.”
Arthur's wife, who was making soup
Ran to find young Doctor Croup
Who, declaring Arthur quite insane,
Gave him pills that dulled his Brain.
But Gorbelung and Gorbeling,
Flying in their spaceship thing.
Left the Earth for other spheres,
On Journeys taking many years
And on a chart pinned to their door
Wrote: 'EARTH COMMUNICATION POOR'.
Barry Stebbings
17/08/16
Categories:
io, humor,
Form:
Couplet
Oh great Jupiter, king of all the planets.
The great gas giant.
A great red spot, a magnificent storm.
You have many moons some large and some small.
The greatest of which are the Galilean moons.
Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
The flux tube between Io and Jupiter,
A sight to behold.
As electricity jumps from one to the other.
Largest of all objects in our solar system,
Except the Sun, the giver of life.
Brilliant Jupiter many times larger than Earth
And far more mysterious.
*Work in progress*
Categories:
io, space
Form:
Free verse
We sit here together on this cliff
watching the stars shine like lost
tears of inner light.
You look at me; my eyes are
blushed with the brightness of the
dim light of the retiring sun.
I smile shyly, softly blushing a
gentle pink hidden by the weak glow.
You whisper a sweet joke, I laugh.
You watch me contentedly thinking
of nothing but the beauty of my
forgotten glow.
I feel your fingers floating over my
skin,
I feel sparks of lightning flooding my
veins with your secret emotions,
they leak through your deep,
compassionate and loving soul.
You slowly approach my face,
you reach my ear, you begin to whisper,
"Io amare voi, lei",
suddenly I find myself trapped within
your sensitive lips feeling sweetly poisoned
by your deep ocean of love and affection,
trapped within your beautiful touch of
gentle silver rain,
the rain of the forbidden truth of our
lustful minds,
lost in a galaxy of refreshing light
embraced by our hearts,
forever condemned to behold
the passion of love.
Categories:
io, girlfriend-boyfriend, love
Form:
Free verse
What fun it would be to sail on a ship
Over all the world on a pleasure trip
Riding the waves from shore to shore
Landing to browse in shops and stores
Daring to find new sights to explore
Canary Islands or the South seas
Rio de Janeiro, the Hebrides
Under the sun you'll cruise with the tide
Islands and dolphins on the port side
Seeing new lands brings joy to the heart
Enlightened by finding all the best parts
10/8/17
Categories:
io, adventure, boat, travel,
Form:
Acrostic