My Holiday Travels - Part 1
...One of the loveliest islands I've been
Malta fits that bill without doubt
Valletta and Mellieha are real highlights
summer sunshine is an attraction to count
Venice is one beauty without doubt
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Categories:
valletta, holiday, travel, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
P S Its Poetry Write On Write On Congrats To My Fellow Poetry Soupers Part 16
...P S its POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 16
Paul Callus 40, 53, 93
Paul Gardner 384
Paul H. Schne...
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Categories:
valletta, analogy, appreciation, celebration, community,
Form: Free verse
Revenge Is Bittersweet
...I’ve been dragged through mud
Pushed around all my life
Beaten and battered
Without a fair chance to fight
Nobody cared, nobody cried
No one gave a if I lived or died
Laying in the gutter, f...
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Categories:
valletta, abuse, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
I Remember You Happiness
...I remember you happiness
through the early aroma
of grinded coffee beans
wafting gently from
the corner coffee shop
I remember you through
the freshly bread 'scent
from the baker's sour ris...
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Categories:
valletta, happiness,
Form: Free verse
The Beheading of St John the Baptist
...I stood hidden in the shadows, watching
as Salome, clad in flowing veils, gyrated
to the music, exuding sensual richness.
Herod leered drunkenly at her vibrant body.
Overcome by uncontrolled lust...
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Categories:
valletta, art, death,
Form: Narrative
Locked Leap
...Is it love or trust, mutual desire or strong will
that ejects entwined bodies into the unknown
from the springboard of impulsiveness?
Arched in firm e...
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Categories:
valletta, love, passion, trust,
Form: Free verse
D-Day In Malta:::Co-Write
...We met in Valletta city on a fine November day
Introductions...hugs and kisses; we got talking straight away.
All agreed to go sight-seeing – architecture , harbour view
Made a stop to buy an ice-...
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Categories:
valletta, fun,
Form: Light Verse
A Pilgrim
...A Pilgrim
(A song for 'Dia')
I come here at night's edge,
This parlour of hidden shadows
Questing for
Some measure of solace
From the bible black grind
Of mundane despair.
She is wearing ...
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Categories:
valletta, butterfly, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Valletta
...Valletta city:
Palazzi like clothes-lines of unwashed underware,
And stale, crumbling cake-carnival,
A giant cheese-grater,
Across a block of holed cheese.
City-fortress without a gate,
undressed an...
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Categories:
valletta, city,
Form: Free verse
By the Window She Waits
...She stands by the window
Looking out over the blue
For soon he will sail home
He lover oh so true
It was many weeks ago
From Valletta harbour he sailed
For the Atlantic cause
Following the c...
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Categories:
valletta, history, hope, love, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Abc's of Capital Cities
...Athens, quite a place, so full of mythology
Buenos Aires, in Argentina, a place I'd love to see
Canberra, is just antipodean class
Dublin, a pint of Guinness in a glass
Edinburgh, the capital...
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Categories:
valletta, war,
Form: ABC
Mediterranean Undressing
...This rock of the brave
In the Mediterranean Sea
There is a Maltese Maiden
A lure for me
We will meet in it's Capital
Steeped in history
Valletta is it's name
But for tonight it's our chemistry
Afte...
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Categories:
valletta, love, passion, placesheart, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Plate Glass
...Plate Glass
The plate glass frontage of the hotel
offers a sea of indigo and ink
to the full moon
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Categories:
valletta, places
Form: Free verse