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LIFE-with Dad

...I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers
teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us.
We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Umberto Eco, Foucoult’s...

Categories: umberto, dad, daughter,
Form: Acrostic

Clerihew Boccioni

...Umberto Boccioni loved to sketch
many a lira did they fetch
Died following a Cavalry horse fall
changing genres a unique artistic  call...

Categories: umberto, art, people,
Form: Clerihew

Clerihew Boccioni and His Dog

...The futurist artist Umberto Boccioni
tried to capture movement-an impossibility
nevertheless with atmosphere
on a flat surface made a flicker appear*

*https://galleryintell.com/artex/dynamism-s...

Categories: umberto, art, people,
Form: Clerihew

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Clerihew Boccioni

...Umberto Boccioni,a futurist was his call
died horse-riding,from a fall
his art usp a flickering blur
a moving image was his spur...

Categories: umberto, art, people,
Form: Clerihew

El Matra Guitar Song With Strangs

...will Umberto be allowed to marry
will Pillar not cause interference
for such happenings
wll see find people to make script against her 
unloved brother
that she might get his checks
stay tuned ...

Categories: umberto, adventure, betrayal, conflict, hero,
Form: Bio

Pillar and Umberto Strings and Bass Concerto B Major

...they labeled him as such
and taught him to
do what had been done.
then they made him responsible for
what was done
without feeling sorry for
creating the character
that acted out what had happ...

Categories: umberto, anti bullying, environment, guitar,
Form: Ballad

Umberto Romeo: a Dedication

...At home in the country his best lessons were taught.
From planting the olive tree to pressing the oil;
His love was delicate and pure like a virgin olive oil drizzled over home made bread.
The bea...

Categories: umberto, celebration, death, remember,
Form: Free verse

Metro Boulot Dodo

...METRO BOULOT DODO  -  GOING HOME AFTER WORK



Bobo               going home to a clown
Cocoa              going home for a drink
espresso          going home for coffee
Fallow              go...

Categories: umberto, humor,
Form: ABC

Umberto Eco Rip

...Umberto Eco
was the one who invented Art Deco
wrote quite a few books
but was not universally admired for his looks....

Categories: umberto, angel,
Form: Clerihew

Final Thoughts

...While strolling through the graveyard the other day, I was drawn,
To a host of stones with creative and pithy epitaphs etched thereon!
Such flowing poetic verse is deemed worthy of recording for po...

Categories: umberto, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)

...Erster am Südpol
Geheimer Wettlauf mit Scott
Im ewigen Eis

Auf Rettungsflug für Nobile
Verschollen im Eismeer 

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First at the South Pole
In a secre...

Categories: umberto, history
Form: Tanka

Mary Was the Poetess

...Mary was the poetess
who loved handsome Franco, 
the tall Neapolitan orchestra leader;
and in Naples they met:
at The Galleria Umberto,
under the surveillance of my father...  


Mary was bar...

Categories: umberto, death, family, friendship, history,
Form: Sestina