Dancing Lessons
...Dancing lesson number one:
don't step on her foot or shoe
when you're out having fun
in a sport that's best for two.
When two and two double up,
I think you should have four.
and that's th...
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Categories:
tarantella, dance, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Animal Identities
...A is an ape who wishes he were a man - why?
B is a butterfly who dreamed he was a man - why not?
C is the cat who wants to sit in my chair, when he knows I want to sit there.
D is the dignified du...
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Categories:
tarantella, animal, identity,
Form: Abecedarian
Sicily Evening
...Italia we strolled the country side throughout
the villages of Sicily peeking through stone
ways above garden nooks of Puglia catering to
the soft and sensual galleries of floral canvases
tha...
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Categories:
tarantella, allah,
Form: Epithalamium
Sundrops
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Sundrops dapple umbrageous trees
strewing uncut diamonds, littering the path
with ambient flickers of what lies beyond.
Sundrops freckle ocean's surface
accenting the ripples that pa...
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Categories:
tarantella, environment, insect, nature, ocean,
Form: Tristich
Pizza, Puckers, Passion
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10/31/2023
“ O Sole Mio”, the accordionist plays.
Your feet snuggle mine,in a Chianti, misted haze.
The perfect place forus to become engraved!
A little, sh...
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Categories:
tarantella, drink, engagement, imagery, love,
Form: Rhyme
Lovely
...How I would love to dance with you along the Naples bay,
And then escape towards our restaurant beyond the archway.
Listen, as they play love songs with gusto on the mandolin
As Peppinello prepare...
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Categories:
tarantella, love,
Form: Sonnet
Night of Aurora
...Night of Aurora
Dance of Life -
Night of Aurora before the midnight sun,
Before the polar threshold of the daystar,
As Aurora’s swirling spirals flicker
In winsome purple-green electric flash...
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Categories:
tarantella, light, sky, winter,
Form: Free verse
Esmeralda, As Told By the Poet Pierre Gringoire - With Apologies To Victor Hugo
...I had been placed in chains
Where the cripples shed their canes
And the blind regained the art of seeing.
It was a robbers’ den
And as all God fearing men,
I had assets needed freeing.
So...
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Categories:
tarantella, allegory, desire, literature, romantic,
Form: Lyric
He Haw, I Cried
...Hee Haw, I Cried
By Sy Roth
With a mulish hee haw,
I wrap myself in my own divine comedy.
Commedia dell’arte path
For a blind mercenary of his own fate.
An ormolu wonder stood before me-...
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Categories:
tarantella, conflict,
Form: Free verse
You Did This
...Changed me yes you have already
Flying to the sky maneuvering in the milky way of beauty
The tarantella of the love songs you make my inner person sing
Sparks you throw on my face at just a though...
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Categories:
tarantella, love,
Form: I do not know?
Dance Lives Life
...Like a sweet child in ballet
toe steps glide across the archway,
A graceful pirouette holding breath and heartbeat
balanced then suddenly rising like modern athletes.
A rhythmic cadence hustl...
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Categories:
tarantella, dance, life, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Sanity Masquerade
...The air slipped onto the gramaphone the needle cutting me bleeding on the floor as mannequins watched with there masquerade masks sewn on took my arm saying "care to dance my lady" as we waltzed into...
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Categories:
tarantella, dance, drink, gothic, mental
Form: Lyric
The Perfect Partner - Dance
...To a rhythm my feet were moving.
Left, right, T.A.N.G.O.
Moving at a pace full of life and spirit.
A willing partner I had.
Twirl, pause, five steps always ahead.
Stamp and up he holsters me.
H...
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Categories:
tarantella, dance, goodbye, lust,
Form: Blank verse
A Tarantella
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I drift by, an open window
Faintly I see a candle glow
I hear the music's happy cry
An open window, I drift by
I linger there, to hear the beat
The urge to dance grabs at my feet
A ...
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Categories:
tarantella, music,
Form: Quatrain
Christmas In Milan Italy
...This Christmas started out just the same
as all thee other one's I mean mom
baking her famous fruit cake
while my two aunt argue back and forth
over my uncle Paulie being late with the turke...
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Categories:
tarantella, allah,
Form: Italian Sonnet
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