Long Sorrento Poems

2025.4.18
Easter Friday, a public holiday,
All the shops was closed so as M Cenyralhere ,
There was no piano.

It was fine by me,
I just had to find an alternative.
Yes, I was going to this place,
My first trip...

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Hold back the night

She was a chestnut haired beauty,
standing there all alone...
I knew that I... had to get close to her,

She had a stare that could melt 
your heart... if she wanted to...
I felt... something...

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2025.1.26
It is Australia day, congratulations.
There were so many different opinions. 
National day or Devided day?
Celebrate the Country or
Morn the Invasion's history?
To avoid the political heated debates 
I headed to Sorrento beautiful bay,
To soak up the...

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(N.A.A.F.I.  =  universal store, found on
every British military base)

On some bleak airfield on some Cambridge fen 
(that awful winter - 'forty-seven, I think) 
my mother, novice servicewoman then, 

crossed parade-ground like a skating...

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My long weekend trips had changed and ruined,
By your early morning text messages.
On Saturday, 2025.03.08@03:08:00.
You texted me to let me know,
It was your birthday, you turned 21+ years old.
You also wanted to let me know,
The...

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I won a holiday voucher; good luck had come my way
So we put the money towards my bucket list holiday

Ever since was small I’d dreamed of visiting Italy
To view the Pompeii ruins a sight I...

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Has anyone ever seen the fertile Felix Ager,
which the Romans called, " The happy land?
Along the astonishing coastline are found:
the odorous lemon, orange and pine trees
that overlook the limpid and calm Tyrrean sea!
Feel the warmest...

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The music 
is her breath, 
or…wind…

into the open
bottle. The songs
of folk-lore.

***

Around her bon-fire, 
embers sear the sleeve,
of her Hoodie;

The sparks 
are as red
as the blood

of a burst 
aneurism.

Thus...
she could have

a "broken heart".

The sparklers
in their hands,

the...

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I could be where the palm trees sway in a tropical breeze,
The pace is slow, the air is warm, and I can take my ease.
Drinking chilled coconut from the shell, a blue ocean view,
But, the...

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2025.5.5

It was the 5th day of winter.
Somehow the weather was still warm,
It tickled my travel's bones.
Yes, I went all the way to Queenscliff Geelong.
I came here several times in the past,
But missing to climb up...

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Harsh are the winters
in North America and one
must drink hot coffee
or chocolate to revive 
himself, not to let his bones
freeze and possibly crack.

By a window frosted with snow,
one sees mountains and vallies,
even an occasional hungry...

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2025.3.15

Today, I visited Sorrento back Beach. 
Swam only for five minutes.
Both the swell and the current
Were too high and too strong for me.
Fortunately, the Lifeguard Mason,
Assisted me to get down to the ocean,
Where the waves...

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2025.2.23
Summer heat waves.
Checked on the website,
Beaurology of Melbourne weather forecasted.
The temperatures, the winds, the water and the tides.
Would be in the 30°c, calm, fine and low tides.
I somehow started to get panic,
Not because of the...

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Merquiene a nutty layered
Chocolate filled layered
Cake
With whipped cream and
dried fruits.
Soaked in orange liquer.
With a thin blueberry tart
or thin blueberry pie.
The Trophy of the Gods
A Night of Championship
Encounters.
Wines and desserts.
After a day of hickory
and mesquites.
Might the...

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Missed someone a lot, 
No words nor thoughts.
Could describe how it was.
But what was the point,
When someone has already gone.
One more "hello", one more "goodbye",
For the good and the last time.
Could not believe or imagine,
How...

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I found a place of
divine intervention
The Land of Italy
The Towers of
Sorrento and Capri
So it is, 
I fell in love
with this place
a country so full of grace
Italy with history of war,
volcanoes, earth and sea
People friendly, loving,...

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