Queencliff
...2025.5.5
It was the 5th day of winter.
Somehow the weather was still warm,
It tickled my travel's bones.
Yes, I went all the way to Queenscliff Geelong.
I came here several times in the past,
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Categories:
sorrento, appreciation, beautiful, nature, travel,
Form: Free verse
Torquay at last
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2025.4.18
Easter Friday, a public holiday,
All the shops was closed so as M Central,
There was no piano.
It was fine by me,
I just had to find an alternative.
Yes, I was going to this place...
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Categories:
sorrento, for her, friendship, travel,
Form: Free verse
Sorrento back beach
...2025.3.15
Today, I visited Sorrento back Beach.
Swam only for five minutes.
Both the swell and the current
Were too high and too strong for me.
Fortunately, the Lifeguard Mason,
Assisted me ...
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Categories:
sorrento, blessing, fun, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse
Labor Day long weekend
...My long weekend trips had changed and ruined,
By your early morning text messages.
On Saturday, 2025.03.08@03:08:00.
You texted me to let me know,
It was your birthday, you turned 21+ years old.
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Categories:
sorrento, appreciation, fate, goodbye, holiday,
Form: Free verse
2025 March 7th
...Missed someone a lot,
No words nor thoughts.
Could describe how it was.
But what was the point,
When someone has already gone.
One more "hello", one more "goodbye",
For the good and the last t...
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Categories:
sorrento, for him, holiday, how
Form: Free verse
Summer 2025
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2025.2.23
Summer heat waves.
Checked on the website,
Beaurology of Melbourne weather forecasted.
The temperatures, the winds, the water and the tides.
Would be in the 30°c, calm, fine and low ...
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Categories:
sorrento, i miss you, miss
Form: Free verse
Australia day
...2025.1.26
It is Australia day, congratulations.
There were so many different opinions.
National day or Devided day?
Celebrate the Country or
Morn the Invasion's history?
To avoid the political...
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Categories:
sorrento, celebration, january, nature, places,
Form: Free verse
appealing taste
...A lemony drink that is mellow
Alcohol sugar zest yellow
Unlike its fruit tree
It's said with a long e
In Sorrento they make limoncello
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Categories:
sorrento, creation,
Form: Limerick
Sorrento Cabernet
...Merquiene a nutty layered
Chocolate filled layered
Cake
With whipped cream and
dried fruits.
Soaked in orange liquer.
With a thin blueberry tart
or thin blueberry pie.
The Trophy of the Gods
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Categories:
sorrento, abortion, art, drink, french,
Form: Classicism
A Trip To Pompeii
...I won a holiday voucher; good luck had come my way
So we put the money towards my bucket list holiday
Ever since was small I’d dreamed of visiting Italy
To view the Pompeii ruins a s...
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Categories:
sorrento, culture, history, holiday,
Form: Couplet
The Cliffs of Sand and Sea
...The music
is her breath,
or…wind…
into the open
bottle. The songs
of folk-lore.
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Around her bon-fire,
embers sear the sleeve,
of her Hoodie;
The sparks
are as red
as the bl...
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Categories:
sorrento, allusion, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Whitest Sails Flapping
...Harsh are the winters
in North America and one
must drink hot coffee
or chocolate to revive
himself, not to let his bones
freeze and possibly crack.
By a window frosted with snow,
one sees ...
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Categories:
sorrento, adventure, anxiety, happiness, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Return To Sorrento
...(N.A.A.F.I. = universal store, found on
every British military base)
On some bleak airfield on some Cambridge fen
(that awful winter - 'forty-seven, I think)
my mother, novice servicewoman ...
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Categories:
sorrento, home,
Form: Terza Rima
My City
...From Banksia Grove to Alfred Cove
There are lovely sights to see
Sorrento Quay is on the way
To where my children love to play
Elizabeth Quay is a brand new place
That puts a smile upon my face
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Categories:
sorrento, love, my children, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The Only Place I Want To Be
...I could be where the palm trees sway in a tropical breeze,
The pace is slow, the air is warm, and I can take my ease.
Drinking chilled coconut from the shell, a blue ocean view,
But, the only plac...
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Categories:
sorrento, absence, devotion, emotions, for
Form: Lyric
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