GNRT DAY 47 ACADIA BRAND NEW
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What has astounded us most this road trip…what amazes us more and more
Is how every day we’ve been surprised by something we’ve never seen before.
It could come from any place…any what, when, w...
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Categories:
rialto, travel,
Form: Rhyme
OLYMPIC PARK DAY 5
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We woke up early to a 50 degrees morning….six o’clock to be specific
In order to make the 70 mile trip to Rialto Beach on the coast of the Pacific.
It was a two hour circuitous trip …since we h...
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Categories:
rialto, beach,
Form: Rhyme
Love's Allure
...I always weep for you in the hush of eventide hills.
In their mystical muteness I can hear your heartbeats.
As tears indulge in indigo dusky deepening horizons,
I put my hope in the last morning s...
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Categories:
rialto, absence, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Italian Road Trip
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My wife and I share a passion for travelling, the world we love to see
We travelled through France and Switzerland and we're now in Italy
Day one was a trip in a cable car to the summit of M...
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Categories:
rialto, city, holiday, mountains, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The Ponte Di Rialto
...heptastitch (2,4,6,8,6,4,2)
boat bridge
odd corridor
the Ponte di Rialto
first way to span the Grand Canal
eleven eighty-one (1181)
a bunch of boats
crosswise
wood bridge
better by fa...
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Categories:
rialto, 11th grade, boat, water,
Form: Verse
Rialto
...cool dark theater
dreams unfulfilled in daylight
second features then...
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Categories:
rialto, angst, dream, fantasy,
Form: Haiku
Beautiful Thinking
...Standing by my window this afternoon
I raise my glass to Venice in parting
Three days at the Venetian Lagoon
Down Rialto Bridge on a taxi we're riding.
"Buona giornata, Mademoiselle" greets
T...
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Categories:
rialto, adventure, imagination, language, romance,
Form: Quatrain
A Venetian Honeymoon
...A gondola floats o’er romantic tides
as you and I caress Venetian skies
laced deftly in exalted stars applied
by brushes dipped in hues of lover’s eyes.
A kiss beneath Rialto Bridge ...
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Categories:
rialto, marriage, romance, travel, vacation,
Form: Sonnet
A Night In Venice
...A night in Venice (in sotto voce)
Moonlight shimmers over the Adriatic sea
Stars dancing on the waves in perfect symmetry
We talk of ancient adventure and gallantry
Masquerading dancers beg...
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Categories:
rialto, desire, night, passion, romantic,
Form: Terza Rima
The Melancholy of September Has Arrived
...The cypresses' leaves are vibrant and green, summer refuses
to leave as swallows wait for cold winds to depart;
chilly rain keeps all warblers in their nests hidden from intruders!
Yesterday'...
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Categories:
rialto, rain, september, storm,
Form: Terza Rima
Acceptable Food
...Acceptable Food
The eye is never sure of his food so anyway they say there is limits to what a man
can have they don’t want crumbly things so today I’m typing with a banana to
illustrate the rul...
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Categories:
rialto, fantasy, funny, health, home,
Form: Free verse
Venice's Splendor
...A city made from nothing,
on a lagoon with shallow waters
to keep the invaders away ;
still today those bell chimes ring out
to remind everyone of her victory
at Lapanto...when the ships
brough...
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Categories:
rialto, history, music, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative