CIAO BELLA ...
Bella is leaving,
Bella wants to depart,
no longer enjoys to be here ...
Bella adores heat,
but is already tired,
maybe got tired of me ...
Bella wants pizza ...?
Bella wants
the tower of Pisa ...
Bella misses
her lambretta,
romane vacanze
other romance ...
Dolce vita ... anema e cuore ...
Rome, Torino, Firenze ...
So sad,
Bella wants to leave ...
O Bella, tI prego!
If you are leaving,
I'll leave with you ... Because
live without you...
Living senza di te
I cannot stand..
Categories:
firenze, allusion, fantasy, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
I ate gelato in Firenze
in the shadow of a cathedral
whose name I could not recall.
And gypsies, their wide skirts spread before them,
begged in Italian, words I did not know.
But what was I to do --
I did not understand their voices
and they did not recognize my hair
as their own.
Categories:
firenze, family
Form: Free verse
Oh Michelangelo the high master.
Your marble masterpiece.
In sweet Florence resides.
Beneath the great red dome thou liest.
See how the Son of the most High.
Died for all of us.
And fallen, rested in the caring arms.
Of the Magdalene and the Holy mother.
Your face is seen beneath the hood.
Of Nicodemus, a man of great good.
Yet unsatisfied with less than perfection.
You smashed apart your deposition.
And left eight years hard work behind.
But fate would surely not allow.
This majestic scene to remain unfinished.
And even though you did not return to it.
God willed that completed it would be.
A tribute to the sacrifice of His beloved Son.
A tribute to your genius.
Resting in the bowels of sweet Firenze.
The Athens of the middle ages.
Through which the swift Arno flows.
Categories:
firenze, artsweet, sweet, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis