Antonio Giochino Rossini
master of sung comedy
Made his stage debut as a boy
for musical drama brought much joy
Categories:
rossini, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
BE CAREFUL
Be careful what you ask for
One day life is simple, you ask
a female colleague at a partnering
organization not to call you “doctor”,
“professor” and such, then she says
your name the way a symphony orchestra
tears into the finale of a spirited overture
by Tchaikovsky or Rossini and suddenly
your feeling like the primus pilus, the
first violin, the anchor baton, the broad-
shouldered stroke in an eight-oared shell
or the seminal man with genes of genius
in his jeans: powerful, confident, perhaps
dangerously exposed – a burden you
don’t need
If you’re only doing business,
let formality play its role!
Categories:
rossini, business,
Form: Free verse
Fresh tomato juice with a slice of lemon.
Some moving classical music by Rossini
Oh, and a red checkered table cloth to
help set the scene.
And old bottle of Chianti with a rainbow
candle burning in it.
That aromatic, fresh Italian bread!
Just light the candle, sweetheart,
So we can please,please begin it.
Italian salad with heavenly olive oil,
imported from Italy.
Lasagna with marina sauce.
Fresh grated Parmesan, oh, I am
simply drooling.
We'll clink our wine glasses first,
like when we were first dating!
Then our Italian dinner will begin.
Like two hungry wolves, we lunch,
just salivating
September 6, 2020
2:30pm PST
Categories:
rossini, feelings, food, imagery, joy,
Form: I do not know?
Delicious tender shrimp
Brushed with olive oil
Flavored in three cheeses sauce
A touch of garlic
Rossini Pasta
Parsely
Shrimp!
Categories:
rossini, food
Form: Epulaeryu
The Neapolitan tarantella
is a folk dance very graceful and lively,
it was inspired by someone having been
bitten by a poisonous Taruntula.
It's fast up-beat tempo
induces a frenzied dance in a solo,
or a couple...and as they dance they sweat out
the poison of the spider's bite.
Grandma used to sing this folklorist song,
and I danced with her while loud mandolins
and tambourines accompanied her cheerful singing...
there wasn't an awkward note in her voice.
The Neapolitan tarantella, with its frantic rhythms
and shrill harmonies infused passion in great composers,
and Mendelssohn wrote his symphony...
a song dance was composed by Rossini.
The Neapolitan tarantella grandiosely plays
and everyone stops and listens to its low and high-pitched melody,
and with little hesitation they start to dance...
beneath my veranda, these folks put on a look of festivity.
Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci
Categories:
rossini, happiness, history, music, passion,
Form: Quatrain