Etna Poems - Poems about Etna

Summer Heat

...Sun is seen a flaming ball in the sky,
Darting down pointed spears of smarting beams.
Horrid heat waves, from the smoked earth, rise high.
For drops of water, the thirsty earth screams...

Categories: etna, summer, sun,
Form: Sonnet

Seeing Earth as it was

...
An ask of mine needs urgent sating
I don’t mean to blashpeme or be rude
But when God was done and dusted creating
And he looked and saw that “it was good”
What was he looking at?

Were his ey...

Categories: etna, beauty, nature, perspective,
Form: Spoken Word

My Cat, Lover

...Here I sit
composing juices spurting
spewing, gushing, splashing,
dripping every wall!

like Mount Etna awakened
my mind erupting with poetic
genius 

like Roman Candles
on 4th of July

u...

Categories: etna, cat, inspirational, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Vulcan

...Vesuvious, no, never!
Veins of fire Etna gives
Vulcan, god of silver,
Various gems and gold,
Vermeil tidbits of bronze~
Verrayment to adorn
Venus his bride, his joy!


Vulcan is the god ...

Categories: etna, mythology,
Form: Pleiades

Ash Wednesday

...The Big Day began with a flash:
Mount Etna delivered the ash
The Pope said, "Its clear;
Sicilians are dear!"
La Cosa Nostra stashed the cash....

Categories: etna, culture,
Form: Limerick

My Lemon-Tree Island

...I know the land
where the lemon-tree flowers
Autonomous region in Sicily
Those beautiful beaches
seducing the travellers
Sicani people around 8,000 B.C.

I know the land
where the lemon-tree ...

Categories: etna, 7th grade, beautiful, culture,
Form: Lyric

Aurelivs Livia Druslla

...to due to reframe
to speak the latter first
than which is spoken
sung and rehearsed
than which of most
to be discovered
the God of many
is the God of others

 Those worlds of the selfish
to...

Categories: etna, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

On the Visage of Mount Etna

...Grow the glow of love on wings of your domestic dove
Satiate and ingratiate appetites of your petite partner
Pour gratitude with the right attitude into pots of gifts from above
Fete your lover wi...

Categories: etna, poems,
Form: Pantoum

The World Is a Small Plane

...I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times. 
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went sear...

Categories: etna, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love,
Form: Narrative

Mount Etna

...Orange streaks highlight an eastern Sicilian sky
a fiery display putting added pressure 
on an already muddled and ashen mind
seeing the unseen still fearing the fairest dream

Slight breezes pu...

Categories: etna, love,
Form: Free verse

Armageddon

...Orgasmic Armageddon!
So, did we get it on?
Bliss and satiation,
Or was it Armageddon?
Are you still in Australia?
Like Vesuvius and Etna,
Daze in stupefaction-----
How did this compare to Arma...

Categories: etna, blessing, boyfriend, desire, fun,
Form: Free verse

Blue Sicily

...The morning haze lifts off
the clear, blue waters of Sicily and
moves on revealing an azure sky
reflected in the water.
Levels of blue from light to dark
display life forms not seen on land,
wi...

Categories: etna, happiness, nature, peace, places,
Form: Free verse

Mount Etna

...Cloud touch its head 
Mesina to Catania
pray to calm its temper.

In slopes of anguish
as its hold golden keys
ashes in soil claims 
superb taste feats golden basket.

Beneath and under writ...

Categories: etna, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse