Water Quintain (Sicilian) Poems

Sweet Quintain, sing to me
of poetry and skies of azure blue;
of sea gulls flying free;
of dawn and morning’s dew
and sunshine as it falls with splendor...

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Walking home from a party one cold night,
a man approached and not word did he say:
though, he seemed harmless I did have some fright,
silently,...

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You have been accused, no more do we need
Point the finger at mother and daughter
Two Sutton girls with no chance to be freed
An impossible test,...

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Vitriolic stances generate vicious marks. 
Sweltering, an irritating swamp of sadness. 
The bold spirit is infused with pitiful dark. 
Levied by cruel words exuding madness....

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Standing by the rolling sea in one mesmeric night of June
Suffused with the shimmer of the sapphire water serene
I saw the regal ascend with grandeur...

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War is destroying their homes in Ukraine
They continue their fight against invaders
Refugees are packing the departing train
With thousands and thousands of evaders
Besieged cities run out...

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The Rainbow

The world howled and the roaring thunder did clap,
amid frothing waters and whipping winds our vessel marched.
To us whom the boiling sea had unkindly...

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Grey the shadow has laid
Shoes are scattered buckles undone 
Quite still the ball with which children played
In quiet corners the clocks hands don’t run
Chuckles sounded...

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I love Canada for her wintry show,
the red-breasted robins in trees;
and fresh fallen white in a wild meadow,
forests caressed by a cold breeze;
serene ice rivers...

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Wonder when
the sun will break through
these clouds that have entered
the skies no longer blue
its favorite color.

Wonder when
these eyes will see through
the fog that has obscured
the...

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