Places Terza Rima Poems

"The velvet veins running through my deep-coloured wings sing blues, remembering the non-existent maple memories, lighting up my heart's frosty rays."
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I got up very early breathing in scented air,
beholding the beams of light that came from far;  
and looking outside pure joy built up...

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When days were young, my love and I
would search the clouds for faces.
On pillowed grass, we two would lie.

The clouds today may hold traces
of a...

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He was a young man traveling lightly with nothing much to carry 
but his dreams and wide-eyed wonder
and a ticket for a ferry

Ride, across a...

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Soft shades of olive, emerald, and peridot
Filter through the early morning gray mists,
Greening of spring in my beloved meadow.

A stroll through the lea tops my...

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I cannot anymore say “I do not give a hoot!” 
When a policeman pulls over my car, 
First thing I say is, “Officer, please don’t...

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Provide terminations to everyone that has a choice 
some choose not to kill and stay involved 
in saving human life rather than devalue 

An unborn...

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It carries us all on the swift tide of truth,
launching us through life on a dime,
spinning us further away from youth.

To experience it is a...

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We are mired in a dark quagmire
Of cruel and murky quicksand, 
We dance no more to Kama’s lyre,

And vow for the Western Pure Land,
The eternal...

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a terza rima 

The setting?  Bean Town, known for allegory, 
has city gardens guarded close by lawmen.
Make Way for Ducklings, long a famous story.

Adjacent...

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Of new pains new verses must be composed 
To give matter for the canto twenty
Of the canticle first, treating sunk posed.

I just was inclined with...

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ACROSTIC  ODE  TO  SINGAPORE


Urge strikes a feel and flow of obvious appeal,
See a tiny red-dot enroute to places,
Embracing the path of economic...

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Voices are low, and the pages unfold
Dusty worn jackets, on paper-back shores 
Classics of old, or a best-seller's gold

Renaissance store, with a bent spinal core
Latitude...

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Quelle vicende vissi fino in fondo.
Quando mi riappropriai della mia vita
Se questo è un uomo chiesi a tutto il mondo.”
Those events I lived through and...

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The leaves, how they cover the ground today
They have gorgeous orange and brown colors
Look from my window, on the roof they lay

They lay lovely on...

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