Places Rispetto Poems

Suppose all around you suddenly vanished,
And you realized you were standing alone
In the twilight of your years feeling banished
Like a pilot-less, rudder-less, helpless drone.
You knew...

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Island Aloha

Tall and lovely palms are swaying island fair
within the tropical gentle trade wind's flow
as elegant Egrets glide on salty air—
then softly land where verdant...

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There is a most peaceful, restorative place
where I can spend hours to unwind and renew.
Our sunroom addition becomes a showcase
for nature's blue sky, rolling hills,...

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When lattice of jasmines unfurls like a veil
I pause in my terrace  littered with starglow,
As quietude circles lulled breaths to inhale
The tempo of nightfall...

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There is one image forever in my mind
Downland ridge, a back-cloth to my forming years
Like a table, bare, where ancestors once dined
An ikon potent that...

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Sugar Cain spin speeches
coming from wrinkled, prune faces
Citrus acid tongue leeches
latching on to golden palatial places

Waxy viper lips moving in lamprey motion,
voodoo witches brew is...

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Powder blue cloudless skies, long warm breathless days
with fresh smells of honeysuckle and jasmine
outdoor cooking, barbecues forge smokey haze,
new places, adventures, things to imagine,
morning chorus...

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As I watch this radiant space
Beyond cloud’s torch, prayers retrace 
Where the ledges of Prague’s border 
Adorns steeples touching moonlight.

In Lesser Town of holy rites,
Infant...

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Sky is orange made by the light of the moon
It glows revealing trick or treaters about
There’s also a witch in the sky on her broom
Flying...

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My tropical paradise along the shore
where ocean sounds soothe and warm breezes invite. 
I will call you home until I live no more.
All my days...

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My beautiful boy gently sleeps through the night
dreaming of far off places I'll never see.
Under a hand-knitted blanket soft and white,
I quietly watch him breathing...

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