Best Napoli Poems

Napoli frozen
Oh, al lampone sweetness!
Three divine colors

A taste of Roman
Desert of the Godly sons
This box is for me...

for Poet Destroyer's Contest: "Neapolitan Ice Cream"...

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KING OF NAPOLI (PT. 2)

Bright Altar of the bloodless sacrifice,
sweatless stains drenched your jerseys.
Which armoury delivers this season's Scudetto?
It's the masked number 9 that emerges...

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'Tis well-known that any pasta concoction will always me appease,
But I reckon my all-time favorite is plain old macaroni and cheese!
Ah! That simple but hardy...

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I could be where the palm trees sway in a tropical breeze,
The pace is slow, the air is warm, and I can take my ease.
Drinking...

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Last year I wrote of a Red Sox team
The fans did not exactly scream
They could not swing, field or hit
Last place was theirs, that was...

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I have her nineteen fifties' Trifari
     fine costume jewelry, which I hold dear,
since my sweet mom bequeathed it all to me;
...

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Oh my sweet and beautiful Penelope
Oh how beautiful you are, and when I see you come down
to the pearl gates of immortality and come down...

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Roam the noisy and narrow streets of beautiful Napoli on any day,
and over a popular cafe hangs the comical Pulcinella's image; 
many tourists aren't familiar...

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Jazz & Blues music is a delight to every soul seeking a ray of moonlight, 
even Madonna and Beyonce wear the kind of jazzy clothes
that...

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No other city is more unique
than Napoli; around corners, 
you'll find surprises that intrigue  
eyes staring at monuments 
that have some mystique powers!

And walking...

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Capri

roofless cubes, spidery with wire,
cakes of azure and enzian;
above at the Villa San Michele
Rilke smiles down at the broken beaches,
at coves of defiant waves, compacted...

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Revolution 
I heard the sobs it came from under a bridge of a stream, and 
found a rejected prince with torn uniform crying, the country...

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well, it's morning again
   and I feeling obcessive
compulsively, constantly running -
    impulsive, progressive...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
being with You just makes me smile,
 ...

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[An offering for fans of Dean Martin... or not. More or
less to the tune of ‘That’s Amore’ (not the ‘In Napoli’ bit),
this is the cleaned...

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"A Napoli anche l'asse mediano ha la sua poesia." - Rosano Verde

I have composed a poem based on the above Italian sentence.



IN NAPLES

In Naples, even...

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