Short Naples Poems

not made in Naples
Neapolitan ice cream...
American taste...

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O Naples,
if Vesuvius erupted...you'd have
Pompeii's dire fate!...

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Rome

Ruins
and kisses

Paris

Romance
by lights

Naples

Pizza
and songs

London

Bridge in
thick fog 

New York

Soup with
flavors

Madrid

Arena
with bulls...

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can you swim naked?
I do not know
I scour the brochures.
Naples Italy
home of Mount Vesuvius
Iconic Castle Nuovo
Mediterranean Sea
Big Cliff of Marechiaro
Great suggestive swimming...

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It's colder than snow
ready to soothe your palate
throughout the long day.


Three superb flavors,
taste them and dream of Naples
and of its colors.     


While eating this ice cream,  
explore that southern city
on the bluest shore....

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Queen Johanna I of Naples
Reigned over the marriage bed
"No wife must yield to her husband
More than six times per day," she said.

And now you know the reason
Why they all died young, back then
It wasn't the spaghetti
Just cocks chasing after the hen!...

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Silver filigree runs down to the beach 
While sunlight glints off villas and cliffs 
Into the Bay of Naples
Capri
Like a cameo against cloud and sea.
Olive groves make a mosaic against the hills 
While lemon trees stud the valley
With jewels among the leaves....

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...a phone visit with old friend:

Listen did I   as he filled me   in
on all the   current   doings
   of his life.

Then,
as a pause   slid-slid-slipped 
   into his monologue,
I said,
I have to move away.

Blink.
Blink.
And   his narration continued,
...you know,
I thought
   I'd explore Naples   after Rome....

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People flock to Naples.
Monday, lunch-crowd
Says, "I'll take the 
Graveyard--'Bob n' Ruth's' special."
Seneca chiefs continue
Their conversations.
Symbols speak in
Passionate tongues.
Who's listening?
The Bristol Hills know
That every tree and vine
Has a tale worth telling,
"Forgive us,
Our dearest Seneca brothers."




A chief of the Senecas  chose to be buried in Naples, NY in the late 19th century....

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They held my feet and many more
Those shattered planks ripped from the shore
Anonymous splinters now scattered to sea
Once proudly stood outside the lee

That giving extension of the sand
Once lifted our souls from the land 
A bench to rest a rail to lean
A place of wonder and told serene

It gifted the site of dolphin or two
Delivered each day its readied view
It still stands proud in my mind
A pier, a view, and more entwined...

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Sunrise was rising
behind the blue mountains
facing the stunning Bay
of Naples.


Ah! No thought was more 
painful than my farewell
to childhood that had started
and soon gone!


Why was deep sadness
anticipating tomorrow...
weren't others wishing me
good fortune? 


Why wouldn't a smart boy
live his happy future
where gold was a promise...
was it fear?


With an incredible  
strength I carried my weight...
enduring many pains,
losing heart....

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