Piazza Poems - Poems about Piazza

the price of apartheid

...Some in Israel feel they’re quite grand
Only they can hear god’s command
They often recite
Commandments at night
Yet kill and steal Palestine's land

Palestinian piazza
Includes the W...

Remebering the Root

...Some old wooden houses are deep,
they have porticos, piazza, loggia,
gables, and cupola.
There rooms are arboreal
they knot,
curl
and jut.

A memory rocks me gently
    in its timbered embra...

On a Foggy Day You Can See the War

...Is it the fog or is it just the steam
That's rising from Italian coffee cups?
Today I wonder if the sunlight beam
Was ever cherished by the grownups.

The fog makes blurry things that once were ...

Soul Roots

...Some old wooden houses are deep,
they have columns and porticos,
piazza, loggia, gables, and cupola.
There rooms are arboreal
they knot. curl and jut outward
as the limbs of a still treeing hous...

My Dream Vacation

...My Dream Vacation

                  To return once more to Italy where the forgotten places
                    still remain in harmony, echoing, antiquities graces.

                    A priv...

Ghosts of the Catskills

...I stand inside a ballroom that stretches long before me,
it is a sitting room right now, formal chairs and setees,
tall windows stretch ceiling to floor, twice as tall as a man,
with velvet drapes...

Niskriti Translated As Finally Saved

...Giant poet gem, Tagore’s story-poem: NISKRITI,
Is a piazza perched paved and perfectly paced beauty;
Scale model of a castle of vast poetic kingdom,
That has spread into an empire of Indian wisdom...

Inescapable Captors of Solid Information

...“The place of cure of the soul.”

Millions, clasped beyond Minerva's hall,
While inquisitive and confident hard.
Headed down towards different thoughts;
To giant collections, questions, borders ...

Passenger June Poetry Soupers

...   
June the most beautiful month, delivered the most angelic Angels
                         I
                   Poetically
Extend My Warm Congratulations 
To every Beautifully Heav...

Italian Morning

...They wait perfumed in fresh clothes,
The kids, at the top of the stairs;
We’ll be back by evening Auntie, says the mother,
C’mon or we’ll miss the corriera. 
They troop off down the stai...

Quads and Whatnots

...What is a square, a shape, container quadraphonics, a traditional rollerskate
What is an atrium, a fireplace, a closet
What is a boxing ring, a gymnasium, blackboard 
What are a checkerboard, deck...

Imagined Life In An Uncrowded Scene

...In early April the bus from Lecce
				unloads us at the fabled fish market.
				The place is shuttered down, not even
				the scent of chowders past lingering
				in the air. The only hint of Jun...

Market Square

...Busy piazza, 
Amidst angry sun
And cacophonous sounds such as,
"pipipi peepee" and "bonanza! bonanza!!",
Calling all to answer,
Nagging market women,
Causing palaver.
Pedestrians roaming.
Eve...

In the Piazza

...A sculpture by Cellini*
Stands in Florence in a square.
Since 1554 you can find
Perseus still there.

He holds Medusa's head aloft
Triumphantly to show
All comers of his deed,
The head the pr...

Pesky Poppycock Payback Please Prepare

...Prevarication permits pretend perception, presenting
piquantly piqued, pimply pimping playboy, plucky
pulchritudinous previously pusillanimous, prevalently
puckish, psychic packman, pokemon playin...

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