A robin at early dawn
...At dawn still young, a grey throat on the go
Rests on a branch nearby swaying with ease,
And moves from deep inside to edge below,
To please me, or to call the mate of his,
To swing and bend, bal...
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Categories:
furioso, bird, morning, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Moonstruck
...'Wherever Love conquers men go bonkers.
this is a fact well known.'
'Ariosto' - 'Arry Oo? - 'Oh no, it's not you!
Didn't I give you the slip?
He was a great poet. It's high time you know it,
and...
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Categories:
furioso, love, men, moon,
Form: Light Verse
Mortal Coil
...Of barren, coarse, of wrath I speak
Long I pondered my passage through the Gates
Now I stand at the prow surrendered and bleak
Sailing my gondola like an eel through the Straits
Where I am at pea...
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Categories:
furioso, fate,
Form: Verse
Grandpa, Il Furioso
...My granddaughter loves me,
that's all I need to know.
I will let the toffs and profs
who came my way now go.
For all their disparagement
why should I have the slightest care?
My ...
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Categories:
furioso, anger, granddaughter,
Form: Couplet
Inferno of Floods/ Höllenfluten/ Infierno De Inundaciones
...Inferno of Floods/ Höllenflut/ Infierno de inundaciones
Inferno of floods
After heavy rain in the mountains
Furious and unexpected
Death toll in muddy water
And nature will strike again
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Categories:
furioso, natural disasters
Form: Tanka
Silent and Starving (A Tribute To Neruda)
...Tengo hambre de tu boca, de tu voz, de tu pelo
y por las calles voy sin nutrirme, callado,
Flocks of birds drop from the sky.
They cling to the branches of trees,
replacing fallen leaves with s...
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Categories:
furioso, loveme,
Form: Free verse