Santa Maria Poems - Poems about Santa Maria

...The feast, it happened, of Saints Peter and Paul. I’d called in early, for a final look at Saint Teresa in her cosy nook, before the tourists made a shopping mall of this delightful church. My pl......

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... Each fragile dandelion Orb of feathered, tiptoed seeds Invite Curiosity's breath to loft your prosperous needs Anchor away La Pinta, La Niña, cast off Santa Maria Heave hoe your Astrolabe Star......

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...Our candle refuses to consume the night, it lit only to paint our shadows on the round mud walls We were splattered greys of thin paint, mounted bold and unbowing, guarding our supper like the anc......

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...Circumstances Poem Lionel Derbyshire Circumstances leaves you few A chances. No nick, no pick, no give me more. Just a little sauce. No custard tart. You in shoestring circumstance It's rou......

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...What formerly got celebrated as adventitious age of exploration... 1492 unleashed, jump/ kick started, and downloaded a bittorrent götterdämmerung spelling genocide of indigenous peoples occup......

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...They say, I sailed the seas in 1492. ......

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...Columbus In The New World Three ships sailed under Spanish colours (The Santa Maria, Niña and La Pinta) And dropped anchor off the shores of San Salvador, For Columbus and his crew to ma......

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... Brothers Giuliano and Lorenzo de Medici were co-rulers of medieval Florence in Italy. Giuliano was murdered by a rival family. The assassins were from the family, Pazzi. They were Franc......

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...This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on the Adriati......

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...When I was young I couldn’t wait to go outside and play when school was not in session on Christopher Columbus Day. We were taught all the stories…how he sailed the ocean blue with the Nina, the......

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...Colorful bombs light up the sky Honoring the day America said goodbye Like a Father letting go to his daughter Freedom was the groom on the other side of the water An investment in searching ......

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...I stand back and gaze across my wonderful garden, in bloom. There it lies in the morning sun, with petals glistening from dew. No one realizes the extent of my love for the rose. As a former res......

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...The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars, his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion. His world is ......

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...Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch We cannot know the beheaded god nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still the figure's trunk......

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...Come, You by Rainer Maria Rilke loose translation by Michael R. Burch This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1......

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