Short Giovanni Poems

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
a name in art to follow
A master of perspective
father&son had much pleasure to give...

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
died at 26 did he
So popular for such a short while
with his vivaious musical style...

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Giovanni Antonio Canaletto
put Venice views on show
Stunning perspective in drawing & sketch
 sublime & so poetic...

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Giovanni Antonio Canal
of the famed  waterway mall
Canaletto,Venice born&bred
panoramas thereof enhanced his 'street cred'...

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Venetian Giovanni Battista Piranesi
an artitic dreamer oh so free
He conceived a vision when in Rome
imagined scenes from back home...

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N-ame
I-n
K-een
K-nowledge
I-s

G-ladly
I-mplemented
O-ffering
V-erse
A-bout
N-oble
N-ote's
I-dea

Topic: Birthday of Poetess Nikki Giovanni (June 07) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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N-eatness protocol cleans
I-nvisible dirt of the devil; 
K-illing the pandemic plague
K-eeps one from being
I-ll.

G-et neatness protocol
I-nto the glorious victory; 
O-bliterate the vicious
V-irus of morbid mystery.
A-pply the health standard, 
N-icely use the alcohol; 
N-ew normal now employs
I-ts neatness protocol.

By Bernard F. Asuncion
Topic: Birthday of poetess Nikki Giovanni (June 07)...

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i was young
i was broke
i was cold

cold
young
and broke

i didnt need
to fix my
broken
piggie
bank

short on supplies
i'd exercise by
walking at
night a
round
town

where
there i
saw the
marquee
it could've
been de Sade
but instead was

Mozart

i had
twenty
dollars
for 

groceries and
a ticket for
Don Giovanni
was twenty

i lived
off of
that
opera
for a
long
time...

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T’was quite uncanny
How cute little Annie 
Got the gig as the nanny
To care for young Danny
Whose daddy was Giovanni
All while pleasing the live-in granny

T’was cute little Annie
who introduced them to samosas Pakistani
The tasty kind that no matter how many
Don’t add one ounce to your teeny fanny



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on February 2, 2018 for contest EARLY FEB 2018 PREMIERE  sponsored by BRIAN STRAND...

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