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Lombard Poems - Poems about Lombard


Premium Member Please Stay a Young Girl
... I once walked with you on Lombard Steet. Little Maria~with the the western golden sun Highting your long, shiny brunette hair. Your tiny patent, Mary Janes, blessing the San Francis......

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Categories: lombard, dedication, memory, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Man''s Turkey
...Lombard Street Memories                 San Francisco, 1975                     ~~~~~~      I felt totally stupid cooking my first turkey, as I had never cooked one previously.........

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Categories: lombard, america, food, humor, thanksgiving
Form: Prose



Diplomacy
...The footman, in impeccable white hose and pigtailed wig, halts five yards off, and bows. An under-secretary, in the throes of studying the Lombard Ruse, allows the silent slippered servant to s......

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Categories: lombard, history,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Gable's Eternal Love
...GABLE’S ETERNAL LOVE Frankly my dear, I don’t give a... After all, my true love fell with wings! No twig nor heifer could compare… This screwball comic welcomed dawn, dauntless i......

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Categories: lombard, death, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Light and Dark
...I haven't left my heart there, My shock I can't disguise, San Francisco wasn't what I expected, Which has taken me by surprise. Please don't get me wrong, I'm happy that I've been, Some of the ......

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Categories: lombard, addiction, beauty, history, people,
Form: Rhyme



My Journey
...I am often called a perfectionist, I expect correctness in all I do, High standards make me a precisionist, This assessment is exact, fair, and true: I will accept only the very best, I am a sti......

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Categories: lombard, desire, emotions, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Puttin On the Ritz - Just For You
...Puttin on the Ritz - Just for You Remember when I used to be dead broke, and everyone laughed cause my dreams were a big joke? Well I married a rich fellow and......

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Categories: lombard, dance, money, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Canto Xxvii Hell Transalation
...Already was straight up the flame and steady To speak no more, and yet away it went Being the sweet poet to let it ready, When another, which followed in ascent, Made us to turn our eyes to top......

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Categories: lombard, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Canto Xxii Hell Translation Part 2
...(continued previous part 1) The duke then: “Tell now: of others indeed Some Latin among sinners do you know Behind pitch?”. And he “I had to secede, It’s not much, from one who near had to ......

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Categories: lombard, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Our Gable Lombard Romance
...A love affair which transcended mortality; Just to have walked with her brought me miracles, My existence only an afterthought past our first embrace. I went straight to heaven without stopping fo......

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Categories: lombard, passion, romantic, stars,
Form: Narrative
Far From Here
...Poet: Ken Jordan Poem: Far From Here Edited by: Sparkle Jordan written: October/1984 I live    far from here,   so very far from the hills   where cable cars  run: Click click click   ......

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Categories: lombard,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Dante's Divina Commedia Translation
...The difficult translation of first Canto of Divina Commedia is here completed In the part published before, Dante imagined to find himself in a dark forest where he met three beasts. Now he is going......

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Categories: lombard, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Dante's Divine Comedy First Canto Translation
...Premise The great poem by the italian poet Dante is the DIVINA COMMEDIA I have tried to translate in english verses of INFERNO (HELL). It was a very difficult task. I expect criticism. When j......

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Categories: lombard, dream, poems,
Form: Terza Rima

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