Short Venice Poems

Shylock 
Carried lock

Key not
To open Venice!...

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Venice
Is still
Poetry
Even after 
2 hours
Sleep...

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Will
her
ceiling
prove to be-
made of Venice glass...

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Monet in Venice 
a flock of pigeons treats him
as just a tourist...

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Recife... its mirror... Venice,
its atavism... Holland...and,
its haughtiness of a King......

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I couldn't afford gondolas,
So I bought Carnivale masks-
Venice!


Mark Halliday
20150309
Image 1...

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Eugenio Benvenati
a water-colourist came to be
Playing with light in Venice
hid brushwwork could not cease...

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Joseph Heintz the younger
with a brush caused quite a stir
Painting Venice warts&all
with people large&small...

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

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rippling of Venice waters
red chair red cap umbrella
immersed in dreamy landscape
bootstrapper bubbles

11/4/2018...

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You were born in the land of Venice
Had lovers aplenty
Now you glide alone
Along the dark canal
A giggling gondola ghost....

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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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A
place
to sigh-
impressions
of recollections
in lasting retrospective lie.


Venice-the most beautiful city I have visited....

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Glass work in Venice,
Blown by the creators lungs;
Petals made of glass.





____________________
Inspired by Dale Chihuly...

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Priest Antonio Vivaldi of Venice
wrote Farnace an opera piece
It was Vatican barred for 300 years
happily in 2022 we now will hear...

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Canaetto's nephew was Bernardo Belotto
Venice famiy problems made him go
He became painter in Warsaw
his single perspective was major flaw...

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Emile Barnard famous artists friend
did not to art his full attention tend
He gave up painting to write
settling for beautiful Venice sight...

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Watching Serena play tennis
Whilst sipping a pint of Guinness
I heard someone plead
Donald Trump should lead
His Fake News Parade in Venice...

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There was a young man named Dennis
Who thought he was an ace at tennis
He missed every shot
An ace he was not
He is now a Gondolier in Venice...

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The good ole days 
When fences were low 
And Venice was Venice 
Wild, crazy and care free 
With Good ole harry perry 
And vendors & entertainers...

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There was a painter from Venice
Who wanted to paint Buckingham Palace
He got on his horse
And rode so fast
And didn't realize he was back in Paris...

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Venice,her beauty to behold
Colourful edifices from days of old
Charming waterways,traffic free
Bithplace of revered Vivaldi-
A pastel painted memory....

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There was a large cat from Llanelli
Who was terribly fond of spaghetti
One day out of menace
He travelled to Venice
Where he dined in the sun on a jetty....

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inside of ears pierced
song penetrates dark deeply
lighting up canal
enhancement of oars gliding
through calm waters of Venice
...

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there was a young man named Dennis
who staggered from a pub in Ennis
he thought he boarded a train
but woke up on a plane
and found he was headed to Venice
...

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