A Dust Bowl of Glitter
...A blessed soul has won a role, The Prince of Peace,
Of noble birth, a novice born a blue-blood,
Pontificate average those brevities,
Stemmed full of thorns wrangled beneath his rosebud.
Won The...
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Categories:
florentine, conflict, history, military, political,
Form: Rispetto
The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
...The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
Apalachee High School,
located in Winder, Georgia
witnessed an active shooter,
whereby the alleged lone gunman
(actually just a t...
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Categories:
florentine, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
tragic prodigy
...You have the Florentine beauty of the soul,
with pale fingers as if made of snow,
you play nocturne farewell melody
on my ribs as if they were a harp.
and your renaissance soul
will conquer...
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Categories:
florentine, emotions, feelings, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
WE GOBBLED GOATS CHEESE
...WE GOBBLE GOAT’S CHEESE
Scales of justice weighed in gold and coal
cherubs and demons cheer without fear
horns blow, rooms gather fat
Coaxing a grey Persian cat
climb stairs of glamour
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Categories:
florentine, anxiety, cat, conflict, dark,
Form: Alliteration
Tribute To Iolani Palace
...There is only one official palace on USA soil
Iolani Palace in Honolulu, Hawaii, where slaves didst toil
Former home of King Kalakauna a well-thought of king
and his sister Queen Lil’uokalani who ...
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Categories:
florentine, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Lamented Beautiful Multicolored Butterfly-
...lament beautiful
multicolored butterfly
flitters through the sky
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bright florentine soul
flying up toward God home
in spaces skies blue
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lament beautiful
multicolored butterfly...
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Categories:
florentine, adventure, beautiful, butterfly, color,
Form: Haiku
At the Hollywood Plaza With Eddie and Dolores
...Anti-Poem – “At The Hollywood Plaza With Eddie And Dolores”
(Poet’s Instruction – Kindly play “You Can’t Be True, Dear,” by Ken Griffin, 1946, while reading).
she be smelling mighty good my dol...
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Categories:
florentine, america, fantasy, imagination, romantic
Form: Free verse
Onslaught
...The crowbar rattled at the clattering noise,
In the yard, against the hulls and hoys,
A Cloud of tar smoke rose through the green,
Large oil slicks floating on the lake sheen.
Incon...
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Categories:
florentine, analogy, bereavement, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Molecule Soup
...he waived cross examination
innovation had suffered a sucking head wound
and the Mossad was after my ass
a post Ragnarok picnic with a fire on the ice
hot enough to fry a penguin steak
code bre...
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Categories:
florentine, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Clerihew Michelangelo
...A Florentine christened Michelangelo
gave painting,sculpture&poetry a go
Anatomy in gestures he did portray
still available to touch this very day...
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Categories:
florentine, art, word play,
Form: Clerihew
Michelangelo Translations
...MICHELANGELO TRANSLATIONS
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. He and his fellow Florentine, Leonardo da Vinci, were rivals ...
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Categories:
florentine, angel, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Epigram
Love Twits You and I and Our God- -
...Allow me precious woman
To kiss your spirit
Give me reason to pray for your heart
Darling, showing me intermission
Our hearts beats fondly opt
Rainbow promises winds yonder blows
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Categories:
florentine, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, for
Form: Free verse
October Sun- -
...Crunchy the bite, sweetness tis out of site;
It’s so right a fruit an October Sun plum;
Hint of sour, from Australia;
Lo, weary traveler;
Where can you go?
To spend the best destination ...
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Categories:
florentine, adventure, analogy, appreciation, fruit,
Form: Rhyme
Effects of a Rose
...Teardrops born from
inflamed elated eyes.
Fetuses of euphoria
slips and slide down
thy cheeks for they
are genuine touch
that emblazon the
trail upon the abyss
of thy bosoms ba...
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Categories:
florentine, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Jewel That Took the Crown
...A coral pink design on glistening ruby tapestry--
Reminiscent of ingenuity of sculptor's blueprints
In scarlet-orange tinges and teal-green imprints
Hanging spectacularly in the cosmic art gallery...
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Categories:
florentine, butterfly, imagery, sky, space,
Form: Verse
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