The Dangling Decameron
...Some kind of Boccaccio
they open The Book,
borrowing thoughts
and stories from muses,
for it is a tome
in its entirety,
each muse, a Page, unamused,
to be plucked from tomb,
those sepia...
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Categories:
boccaccio, i am, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse
Worth Saving, Part Ii
......Shakespeare and his pentameter, vital after four centuries,
Cervantes and his man Sancho,
Dumas and Montecristo,
the great tales of Boccaccio,
Dicken and his fine ghosts three.
Beethoven's ...
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Categories:
boccaccio, confusion, culture, how i
Form: Rhyme
Villanelle: It's All Been Said Said Better and Bolder Before
...Villanelle : It's all been said said better and bolder before
It's all been said said better and bolder before
Worse now most repeat over and over again
No shibboleths now to test smooth word...
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Categories:
boccaccio, art, birth, creation, muse,
Form: Villanelle