Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future: A Traveller Arrives in Arezzo
...The sun on this September afternoon
is not quite what it might have been in June,
but hot enough. My barman’s chatting on,
while somewhere, some lopsided carillon
is clanging tunelessly. I’m in t...
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Categories:
palazzo, future, remember,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Three Happy Italians
...Palazzo Strozzi near the Duomo is empty now,
The tourists having sought more grand amusements;
Perpetual restlessness the most common souvenir
They’ll be bringing home from vacation.
Giotto’s C...
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Categories:
palazzo, travel,
Form: Blank verse
Imran
...I never bounced like freak
Never go up through trick
To complete poetic palazzo
I am the last completion brick
My tongue never gives anyone
Neither gook nor any prick
My verses fit to eve...
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Categories:
palazzo, boy, life, lost, love
Form: Rhyme
Revolutions
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"Revolutions"
7
We are all for the Fall
in the seasons of His hands
where He pulls in the strings
of all His puppets
calling in cold l...
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Categories:
palazzo, faith, god, i am,
Form: Free verse
Sunshine Sonnet- Assisi
...Stepping out on a July afternoon,
hand up on forehead, squinting in the glare,
flick out the Ray-Bans, eyes become attuned,
descend the steps and stride across the square.
The amber lenses paint ...
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Categories:
palazzo, sunshine,
Form: Sonnet
A Principessa Waits: Constanza
...She floats among palazzo halls
in teal brocade of lambent silk
procured for ladies of her ilk
while sepia of gloaming falls.
Candescence rises in her skin;
awakened is her heart within
to ...
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Categories:
palazzo, imagery, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Rivalry's Children
...It was the time when art was king,
Of artists whose praises we all sing.
Great minds there were in the Renaissance,
Through eons , unsurpassed, with little advance.
Greatness was embodied in t...
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Categories:
palazzo, art, history, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Under the Cloud
...The depression,
in purple moon,
scattering black magic.
The eatery, I ask, why were
you hungry ?
The singsong tea pot smiles.
The theme of mist
valley, incites the palazzo;
and the r...
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Categories:
palazzo, art,
Form: ABC
Bianca of Venice
...Venice, the daughter of the sea
Winding paths, waterways or cobblestones roads
Rulers of the renaissance, noblemen would be
Her navy full of conquests, her triumphs all would see
From nobility ...
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Categories:
palazzo, adventure, beauty, history, love,
Form: Light Verse
Dancing Mad
...Nothing short of God-like
The dancing mad jester of the Empire
Cunning, swift, adept
Hallowed be thy name; Kefka Palazzo
A laugh echoes throughout space
Tearing through the golden heavens
Razing the...
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Categories:
palazzo, fantasy, people, world,
Form: Free verse