Alberta Texas Florida - Atf
...Alberta Texas Florida …
We call her Bert for short
Was born near the Alamo
And soon brought to Port
Salerno in Florida … duh!
Where she contracted Covid
And languished in the ICU
Lucky to find...
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Categories:
salerno, fate, irony, satire, scary,
Form: Free verse
Mom
...MOM
Let the light shine bright on thee tonight
of the times I remember as a child
you never said much but your actions spoke
in the tradition of all ltalian folk
creating your meals with a cla...
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Categories:
salerno, love, , In Memoriam,
Form: Rhyme
The Greatest Generation
...THE GREATEST GENERATION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Many Have Called Them the Greatest Generation
They Had Struggled and Survived, an Ugly Depression
It Was an Era of Hard Times and Simple Divers...
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Categories:
salerno, america, courage, freedom, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Bleeding Before Rome -2
...Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenc...
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Categories:
salerno, culture, heart, war, world
Form: Epic
Bleeding Before Rome -1
...The bombers began to bleed
their heavy tears of death
from 20,000 feet above the breathless battlefield,
B-17 Flying Fortress formations
moving with apocalyptic aplomb
the shadows of high metal...
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Categories:
salerno, culture, heart, war, world
Form: Epic
Recalling My Dad
...My father and I in a long time past
played cards at the table and he would pause
to tell me a tale when he was young
as he did so many times before
but the stories would change
as he would rearr...
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Categories:
salerno, father,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Mom
...Let the light shine bright on thee tonight
of the times I remember as a child
you never said much but your actions spoke
in the tradition of all ltalian folk
creating your meals with a classic flair
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Categories:
salerno, mother,
Form: Ballad
Emma
...If there's a good wartime story worth telling and sharing:
this one should be told as it unfolds much sadness,
but amid disaster and hardship, hope was a light flickering
underneath those bomb-blacke...
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Categories:
salerno, england, friendship, war, world
Form: Rhyme
Salerno
...I was looking down at the waves
bicycling along Salerno.
A sea-breeze is the air
from the seafront to the mountain
in every corner of...
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Categories:
salerno, holiday, places, travel,
Form: ABC
Vignette- Infamous
...Violence was his game
Tancred,prince of Salerno ,by name
Killed his daughter's true love
Delivered the heart to her abode
Infamy remembered in song,play and ode
Note: Tancred(1078-1152) kill...
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Categories:
salerno, family, lost love, peopleheart,
Form: Narrative