Long Maries Poems

The language and images of Mario Vitale's poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning, that is surprising to realize how many of his poems deal...

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Fishing Boats On The Beach at Les Saintes - Marie’s-de-la-Mer

                  Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1888), Arles, June...

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THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE THAN THIS


"For God did not send His Son
into the world to condemn  the world,
 but that the world through Him might be saved...-John 3:17 "
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"Crucify Him! Crucify Him! CRUCIFY...

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On the twentieth floor of a high rise flat,
A new born baby cries by his mother’s side
Her name was Marie with no where to bide,
No father came to chase the rats.
The child lay in an...

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Stare-well.! gazing..As emotions and souls to your Majestic fields aspire..
Temporal surrounds me, ambiguous background; below crested fallow moons.."
Amplified." Intensity' as stellar images fall silently; while cresendos of beauty abound
Innumerable shifts of light and dark in...

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Stow Maries.

  

Wings of war like paper butterflies

once floated down upon this grassy plain

war machines of moments gone

honeysuckle and wild rose

now cling to silent buildings

empty shells of ghostly past

listen and hear within the broken...

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Sea at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Van Gogh sat staring at the choppy waters
Nothing yet? His brother asked. He did not reply.
He was in artist mode.
Picked up a brush and began

Splashing white capped waves
Hostile swirling wind especially above...

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I pity the refugee’s road of flight,
  the children of the shanty and the gun
who on all humanity are a blight -
  who die or live unto be an orphan.
I pity the meagre,...

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It took our boys, 
And turned them into men. 
It raped our girls, 
And made them pregnant with hate. 
It took away the toys from our children's hands, 
And taught them to toy with each...

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If there were a star that I could buy
a twinkling star up in the sky,
there's but one star so very high
shining brightly, do or die

To the Holy City, it shows the way
the brightest star, it...

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Do you believe in "Everlasting Love" 
    Love that gets two hearts to fly 
    Whispering words of love and sweet kisses 
    Magic and passion...

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Oh! What a journey
We have walked through fields of gold
And stood beneath starry nights

Moon dust in our eyes
specks still  glowing on our tongues
And in our folds and creases

Do you remember?
The gardens at Montmartre
And those...

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