Long Rispetto Poems

 
A bit of history, first . . . .

This song is about the sinking of the Titanic, it sank into the North Atlantic
Ocean on April 14-15, 1912,  after striking an iceberg.  Of...

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Thinking of the bay that daily gush 
From our ray on this lengthy voyage.
This at first wasn't envisage to be created,
For our calculator has failed us in haste.

Yes in haste it has failed us.
Despite the...

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Why did I just say the things I said?
For now your heart is pushed so far away.
Now recalling things I did with dread,
I wish there was a way to make you stay.
Now I will be...

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porta con sé una croce e la promessa di
riscatto
circoli danzanti attorno al tuo dolore
sussurrando parole dolci a voi come voi
try & sleep,
la sua voce si suppone per portare conforto
suoi incantesimi dovrebbero cacciare gli
problemi che state...

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she is my sister.
he is my brother.
  she tough me how draw.
he tough me how to play the computer.
she tough me how to sing.
he tough me how to direct the story.  
she tough...

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A fragile Force

O’ year after year, and even day after day,
I come to grasp the grandeur of what is at play.
The importance of the LIFE that is available to all,
The significance in rising after we...

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I had lost you in my head, n day by day went without u,
I had it all n to myself, big, and all of the above, I was living a 
Dangrous life but thts wht...

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With Nature My Life Stays In Tune
      ( "Sonnetina Rispetto" )

With Nature my life stays in tune
Be it day or clear night's bright moon
On this, my heart holds true and...

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SUMMER SUNSHINE - "Sonnetina Rispetto"

Thank you Lord for this golden day,
This sweet sunshine that smiles my way,
This warm wind wafting through the grass,
That makes my heart dance in delight;
Thank you Lord for this summer light,
That...

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    "Haunting Halloween"


whistling winds lace leaves around haunted castle
as ghostly lovers wander dark dreary halls
midnight chimes as eerie essence moves tassle
chains clanging loud behind ebony stone walls ...

candlelight glimmers through foggy windowpanes
while...

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(Sonnetina Rispetto) 


In my mind you're here day and night 
For some time you brought in sunlight 
Now each day I just think of you 
Non-stop my heart for you will cry 
No matter what...

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(Sonnetina Rispetto) 


In my mind you're here day and night 
For some time you brought in sunlight 
Now each day I just think of you 
Non-stop my heart for you will cry 
No matter what...

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Barbie’s precision, stiff, lounging in glamorous style, 
Plastic pink body asleep in a brand new cardboard box.
Barbie, eyes still open, abused by many of Ken's wiles,
She was once truly human, her daughter opens the lock.
The...

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(Sonnetina Rispetto) 


Day by day with God make my way 
And to him I can always pray 
Doesn't matter wherever I go 
Life can be very hard at times 
But with God I can hear...

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A Farmhouse Vale

Mist evolves down the hillside into the vale

Where the farmhouses sit all put together

There’s no sense of wind here, there’s no bit of gale

Just one leery breeze that blends with the other

 

The...

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Mist evolves down the hillside into the vale
Where the farmhouses sit all put together
There’s no sense of wind here, there’s no bit of gale
Just one leery breeze that blends with the other
 
The houses confine...

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Holding back tears, mom tells me we need to talk,
and I hear the anxiety in her voice.
I catch her nervously glancing at the clock,
as she proceeded to offer me a choice.
Your father and I are...

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"The wind is the pounding of my heart."


Oh, wind, outside my window you are blowing.
I am so forlorn here, for my love is gone.
He’s gone, wind, and I’m left here with the knowing
my heart will...

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WED BRIGHT AND NEW

When  a body needs to make some changes it’s easy to discern
When a body needs to cry out loud the signs are easy enough to learn
From the portals of perpetuity to...

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Young man with a big plan,
Young girl wants to see the world,
One day they meet, by chance on the street,
Love at first sight, it seemed so right.

A whirlwind courtship, each other they worship,
Young man with...

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Welcome all, to The World of If!
Where dreams are Butts and but’s What-Ifs.

Where everything’s If-possible,
All your wishes are If-able!

If you believe, If can be done.
Here Black&White If-xist as one.

Men&Women have If-nocent fun,
Playing naked under the...

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~So Much To Be Thankful For~ 
(Sonnetina Rispetto) 


Just when you think that things are right 
You get blinded and lose your sight 
Just when your world starts to crumble 
God gives you much to...

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The day Captain Concorde did come to my school,
Was the day I first came to love poetry,
Before that day all poems were dull and not cool,
Or at least that was how it did seem to...

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Sitting on this bed, is large enough
Me to him, hands frantically talking
On paper, he replies: “It’s rough,
I won’t deny. One day you’re walking”.
Angry shrug, hah! Heard it all before.
Those friendly words won’t last:
“Don’t judge yourself...

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Intro: 
To be a writer such as he, there are none
  His work outlasts the best, I’m sure…
        …~William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1601-
“to hold, as t’ were, the...

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