Come Closer To Me- Love At First Sight A Music Video Collab with Maria Williams
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This is a true-life celebration of love ballad. A chance meeting on a Greek island becomes a whirlwind romance. From Athens’ vibrant Monastiraki markets to a Taverna where you can experience th...
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Categories:
taverna, beach, love, romantic love,
Form: Ballad
A Fine New Day
..."I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..." E.E. Cummings
Hello my dearest darling, it was our time to wake,
The rustic rooster had already roused my re...
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Categories:
taverna, love,
Form: Alliteration
Our Greek Getaway
...Dear friiends those who first read my poem i left an important line out in the donkey story
The first dance after our wedding,
Was absolutely exciting, intoxicating,
My darling whispered in my e...
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Categories:
taverna, beach,
Form: Narrative
My Mediteranean Dream
...My Mediterranean Dream
Into your quiet arms and protectful ways, I wish to race.
Across lost decades and never want to be traced.
To settle in Thessalonki, and dance the stars away with thee...
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Categories:
taverna, fantasy, imagery, love,
Form: Couplet
The Waitress
...We came walking blind bends at dusk,
An overhanging fig picked fresh.
No pavements, just a nervous trust
that drivers would skirt our single line.
Hugging the roadside with torches lit,
Pho...
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Categories:
taverna, memory,
Form: Narrative
Alien Taverna
...Menu
- Prawn eyeballs - as black as a hole in space
- Alien squid - with face hugging tentacles
- Martian Octopus head - eerily out of place
- Flying saucer seabass - sci-fi Metallic
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Categories:
taverna, fish, food,
Form: Rhyme
Play That Funky Bouzouki White Boy
...trying to sleep
take a simple nap
but the whirling
dervishes in my
mind won't stop
stomping or
dancing
and as i'm "one
who delights in all
manifestations of the
terpsichorean muse" my
me...
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Categories:
taverna, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Silhouettes Under the Stars
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Silhouettes under Starlight
Do you recall my sweet, when you
opened the Taverna door for me?
How beside with joy was I, to step
into a delicious, fog-filled starlit
street!
With ...
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Categories:
taverna, 6th grade, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Greek Taverna
...The Greek Taverna
Where can you be, dancer of my soul?
I want it be 1967 right now.
Where I can walk into the Minerva
Be seated by a handsome host,
And with my heart pounding..you are now wal...
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Categories:
taverna, joy, longing, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Celestial Dreams
...My Greek Cherub, you stole my soul..
How very much I miss you..
That ....you shall never know.
I fly over your house as you sleep and weep crystalline tears,
From my ancient soul.
Sparking, sa...
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Categories:
taverna, age, angel, blessing, dance,
Form: Lyric
A Sorry Sight
...Woke up this morning feeling fine,
looked in the mirror at this body of mine,
Said to myself, you're such a disgrace,
I can hardly bear to look you in the face.
Get out there, get some exercise...
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Categories:
taverna, body, health,
Form: Rhyme
The Sound of Silence
...A couple of years ago, sad to say,
There were bad words and to my dismay,
A couple in our village stopped being our friends.
We would pass the Taverna in the square,
All they ever did was sit and...
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Categories:
taverna, sad, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Happy New Year
...The old year is spent,
The New not yet sent,
The past has passed,
The new comes at last.
Time to reflect on what has been
Time to remember what we have seen
Time to look forward to what is to...
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Categories:
taverna, celebration, happiness, hope, remember,
Form: Free verse
Life In Cyprus
...Life in Cyprus,
Idyllic I would suggest,
For each day is filled with
Everything we hold dear.
Inspired by good friends,
Nice people we meet
Coming from all different places,
Youngsters, t...
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Categories:
taverna, happy, nice, social,
Form: Acrostic
The Night, In His Sexual Longing
...In the taverna, he sits, incognito---
(he’s just 16) among them, the men of the past
and dawdles over a bottle of beer, where he’s
waiting for the night to rest. He stares
at his watch: quart...
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Categories:
taverna, imagination, life, social, time,
Form: Free verse
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