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Giorgio Poems - Poems about Giorgio

Riding Without A Helmet

...Giorgio rode his red Ducati to climb a mountain
without a helmet to protect the fragile brain
from damage, then all sirens started wailing
as if an earthquake or a hurricane were coming!

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Categories: giorgio, adventure, community, courage, death,
Form: Lyric

Bad Alfredo Sauce

...I visited Chef Giorgio's in Italy for a bite to eat.
And ordered Chicken Alfredo after taking a seat
But the pasta was too thick
Made by a chef who was sick
I got him fired and once again he's ju...
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Categories: giorgio, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium MemberClerihew De Chirico

...Italy's Georgio de Chirico
made symbolic paintings you know
He depicted 'what cannot be seen'*
from the mind's eye,it would seem

https://www.wikiart.org/en/giorgio-de-chirico/...
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Categories: giorgio, art, people,
Form: Clerihew

Premium MemberGiorgio Chirico and His Art

...Cough David Cough
Giorgio smiled as he imagined it
Hanging a bright orange plastic glove next to David’s face
Serves him right for being a god, he thought.

The teacher was peeking over his shou...
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Categories: giorgio, art,
Form: Prose Poetry

The Banker and the Bastard

...Born to different fathers they were never that close
But their mother insisted they keep in touch
They never had much in common apart from the love for their Mum
One was drawn by the magnetism of ...
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Categories: giorgio, addiction, brother, care, career,
Form: Light Verse



Rivalry's Children

...It was the time when art was king,
Of artists whose praises  we all sing.
Great minds there were in the Renaissance,
Through eons , unsurpassed, with little advance.

Greatness was embodied in t...
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Categories: giorgio, art, history, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme

You Know

...Yes, my dear, you know,
You are my source of joy, rejuvenation, hope
I need your emotion spread onto my life,
I need your heart to sing among the darkness surrounding
Do not let our words...
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Categories: giorgio, emotions, friendship, happiness, joy,
Form: Ode

And She Lies Sheltered Beneath the Oak

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(There was roast chicken too with potatoes and cheese, though in the picture not seen! Before the shot it had been gobbled up...)


A table laid and baskets heap'd,
Sheltered in the deep s...
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Categories: giorgio, allegory, flower, food, metaphor,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberBottoms Up

...Bottoms Up


Heavy handed was the pour
convex cap to rim of glass
chasers iced and doubled back
dry toast to soothe an empty flask.

Innkeepers have their history
in treating drunkards myste...
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Categories: giorgio, addiction, history,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberThe Garden Picnic

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mom and me liked to picnic in summer
   we made toast and orange juice and ice tea
eating on a wooden garden table
   the cold juice was fresh and delicious
     and the ice tea was sweet...
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Categories: giorgio, image, inspiration, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse

I Must Call On Life Beyond

...The image reveals to its audience, four light slices of tall, stale bread
Being held upright alongside five glasses of warm, thickening honey
Filled to the very rim, coagulating as the bread stales...
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Categories: giorgio, allusion, appreciation, blessing, desire,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberToast

...A picture that whets the appetite
Lightly browned toast standing upright
Hemmed in on each side by jarred jam
Glasses filled with honey thus far
Upon a wooden table sits
A treat fit for nobi...
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Categories: giorgio, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

The Maiden's Song - a Poem By Giorgio Av

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(Metrical form of writing worthily represented here in this poem composed by Giorgio Venetopoulos, had remained unpublished.)


The maiden's form diffuses neath the rain
and beautiful she s...
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Categories: giorgio, analogy, heart, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Premium MemberReceding Shoreline

...Receding Shoreline





Throbbing heartbeats rise,
Patience draws a line in the sand,
Tears swallow my pride,
Turbulence persuades the tides,
Anguish engulfs the shoreline !






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Categories: giorgio, betrayal, depression,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberMoonlight Shadow

...Silhouetted in the early morn
Five black crows await the breaking dawn
Sitting still and silent in a row
Their shadows cast a forbidding glow
Dusk turns to dawn as daylight breaks
Dark s...
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Categories: giorgio, moon, nature, night,
Form: Verse

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