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Piazza Poems - Poems about Piazza

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......

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Categories: piazza, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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 ......

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Categories: piazza, autumn, family, love, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



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......

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Categories: piazza, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: piazza, imagery, travel, vacation,
Form: Imagism
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......

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Categories: piazza, age, appreciation, beauty, history,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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......

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Categories: piazza, gender, life, women,
Form: Rhyme
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 ......

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Categories: piazza, literature,
Form: Free verse
Passenger June Poetry Soupers
... June the most beautiful month, delivered the most angelic Angels I Poetically Extend My Warm Congratulations To every Beautifully Heav......

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Categories: piazza, angel, best friend, blessing,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: piazza, celebration, family, fun, good
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: piazza, analogy, muse,
Form: List
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: piazza, absence, assonance, fish, sea,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: piazza, adventure, anxiety, imagery, natural
Form: Lyric
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......

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Categories: piazza, art, travel,
Form: Rhyme
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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Categories: piazza, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Elizabeth Bathory
...Bathory, Bathory Come take a bath with me I hear it's a cure for asthma. Bathory, Bathory Please scrub my back for me And do not pee in the plasma. Bathory, Bathory Take off your hat for m......

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Categories: piazza, history, horror, humorous, love
Form: Lyric

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