Imagination Ottava Rima Poems

This mind viewed the nimbus cloud from the ground;
holding the arm of imagination.
I looked at the picture that I had found;
till I was lured by...

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Spring in all it's glory is now coming,                
with flowers...

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Fresh new book opens wide and swallows me whole!
As plot thickens, my heart pounds, I catch my breath
Focusing on characters as scenes unfold
Instilling memories of...

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The silver skies of early dawn arrive
And sparkle morning leaves with dewy mist.
When silence greets the morning fair, I thrive.
Majestic woodlands bloom, by Heaven kissed.
All...

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Through the Mist


Dawns mists do not deny what they obscure
encasing us in cones of all alone
create a fear that none - but one - endure
the...

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Do you remember way back, yester-year,
and far off times when life had just begun?
Of languid days, so free and debonair,
all by the pool with friends...

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I would return to Shakespeare’s time and see
Him live upon the stage; to hear him say
The lines he wrote would mean the world to me.
His...

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By a slender thread hangs my sanity.
I am dangling just above an abyss.
At any moment, I can fall freely
Into the clutches of a nemesis.
Short moments...

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A new love who comes to me underground
Over hill even swims mighty river
Under the ocean waves to me he bounds
Joy to my meager life he...

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What shall the winds, of the Ides of March bring
shall it be the scent of a warm summer love,
or a Red Robin, how sweetly she...

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Life has an unseen, funny side...
more thrilling than a pony's ride;
am I so discouraged and doubtful without a realistic insight, 
to give upon my half-won...

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Embarking on this dreamer's vessel 
to find an Elysium never discovered by Man,
and as adventurous as Columbus was:
enamored with the passion of discovery,
I will find,by...

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" VA PENSIERO, " was one of the most 
famous of Verdi's masterpieces:
the Chorus of the Hebrews slaves
lamenting for their Motherland
by the Euphrates' River...as
Nabuchadnezzar II,...

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In the very warm May' afternoon,
I decided to take a stroll instead of being blue,
and getting a little adventurous was to discover
another pansy or violet...

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Entering the fields of my childhood around two,
overjoyed by the vibrant flowers that gently lulled 
and dispersed their gentle aroma into the noon;
I passed under...

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