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Rialto Poems - Poems about Rialto


Premium Member I can't even get past the tomatoes
...I'd love to tell you about the beauty of Venice But I appear to only exclaim it in squeals There's 5 of us here, all talkers for a living Unable to utter a sentence that sums it up I saw a lamp......

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Categories: rialto, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member GNRT DAY 47 ACADIA BRAND NEW
... 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



Premium Member OLYMPIC PARK DAY 5
... 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Italian Road Trip
... 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
Premium Member 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

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