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Mount Vesuvius Poems - Poems about Mount Vesuvius

Premium MemberPlaying Games with an Ancient

...I returned home after forty years to my home island of Hawaii. Its preferred nickname is the Big Island, lovingly a.k.a., the Orchid Isle, and yes, a.k.a., the Volcanic Island. Rightly named ...
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Categories: mount vesuvius, analogy, anxiety, change, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberThe Great California Quake of 2024

...Disasters have plagued our planet since the dawn of time,
When primitive creatures rose from primordial slime, 
And a comet came down to hit a dinosaur’s head,
Causing a headache so bad, he was be...
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Categories: mount vesuvius, future, humor, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberStill Unclear About Swimming

...can you swim naked?
I do not know
I scour the brochures.
Naples Italy
home of Mount Vesuvius
Iconic Castle Nuovo
Mediterranean Sea
Big Cliff of Marechiaro
Great suggestive swimming...
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Categories: mount vesuvius, travel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVesuvius Eruption

...Vesuvius Eruption

flumped
feeling
  fading
     forthcoming
 carrying 
    his 
giant
   cyclopedia
in hand
  snaring
of 
 day's sun

believing 
  his soul 
hoisting
&
asked
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Categories: mount vesuvius, analogy, history,
Form: Other

Premium MemberFlora

...Flora

Season of love and natural propense,
In youthful exuberance with wholeness of innocence;
When Flora casts off her wintery shroud and bursts into flower,
Screaming to the world, <>
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Categories: mount vesuvius, art, history, mythology, spring,
Form: Verse



Premium MemberA Trip To Pompeii

...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 s...
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Categories: mount vesuvius, culture, history, holiday,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberMount Vesuvius

...Pompeii at the top of the stairs,
Her negligee glowing like the moonlight.
The trancelike eclipse chases her to bed.
The milky softness of her gown —
birds like stars stun him to moans.
The thic...
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Categories: mount vesuvius, sexy,
Form: Free verse

Ode To the Flu

...Oh no theres something alien in my stomach
something which want's very badly to come up
it's 4:30 in the morning and I feel very queasy
as I slide out of bed feeling quite uneasy

Was it somethi...
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Categories: mount vesuvius, humor, sick,
Form: Rhyme

Arrivals

...Unblouse  your breast
Where to nuzzle and warm
Areola to moisten and mouth
Urgency need, I scarce was born
Unclothe me in all unrighteousness
Sing for me no lullabye
Fetus reflection in alabast...
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Categories: mount vesuvius, baptism, beach, celebration, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Forgotten God

...The forgotten god
 
Whose rage should burn hotter
than mine; melt the noon day sun,
dry up all thy rivers, scorch the earth, that
thy crops may burn to ashes before
thine eyes, and the heat fro...
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Categories: mount vesuvius, africa, anger, change, culture,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Love Against All Odds

...An ember cloud and fireballs
lit up the sky,
as the lovers embraced
each other in deep
moment of love.

They held each other's
arms and kissed
as though time had
stopped.

The two lovers t...
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Categories: mount vesuvius, deep, imagery, life, love,
Form: Narrative

Mars Is a Wonder In Itself

...Mars is a wonder in itself, a future plight;  
its surface has a dull, red dust...
two small white moons amazingly bright
in a universe too dark and vast.

Some believe that it has water and eve...
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Categories: mount vesuvius, beauty, planet, universe,
Form: Rhyme

Intimate Encounter

...We met online
both from 
the same city
lovely dark skinned woman.

Eyes like black pearls
skin smooth as velvet
I went to her house
like magnets we clicked...

Later the next day
she texte...
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Categories: mount vesuvius, desire, fire, love,
Form: Free verse

Last Kiss In Pompeii

...Mount Vesuvius erupts in anger
warm air like butterfly wings
flashes against our cheeks
I hold you my final light...

We stand on the edge of the sea
a galaxy of smoke and soot
swirls around us...

M...
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Categories: mount vesuvius, dedication, history, love,
Form: Free verse

The Beautiful Land That Gave Me Birth

...Land of Dante, Michelangelo, Vivaldi, Verdi, Vanvitelli and da Vinci;  
there Julius Caesar spoke these victorious words," Vedi, vidi, vici."
From the majestic snow-capped Alps to the sun-scorched Si...
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Categories: mount vesuvius, beauty, birth, culture, magic,
Form: Rhyme

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