Within the White Noise
...Have you ever pondered
shadows are made of
softness, they are not
hard surfaced like
those of us existing
outside of the white noise
unable to grasp -
the invisible,
that speak meani...
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Categories:
venetians, mirror, muse,
Form: Free verse
The Circus - a Tautogram
...Amazing acrobats astound awe-stricken audiences. Amy always asks about acts already arranged.
Bouncing bears balance beach balls. Bobby Bear bicycled behind Betsy Bear.
Crazy clowns crash car...
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Categories:
venetians, animal, poems,
Form: Tautogram
disarray -
...
late …
summer eventide ...
I lay on the rug,
head by the window,
feet tended in the direction away
from your house ...
deliberately ... designedly ...
full moon drizzling its
cornflow...
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Categories:
venetians, break up, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Venice Is Flooded
...So let me get this strange phenomenon right
The city of canals, Venice, is flooded, quite a sight
Locals can't believe
Hard to conceive
Mother Nature sure can give Venetians a fright<>
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Categories:
venetians, stress,
Form: Limerick
The Adventures of Enea, Part 10 of 13
...Anxious in Ancona (1)
His plan, as he’s boarding his baldachined barge
en route for the easterly sea,
(arthritis allowing) is giving it large,
but the pain is as bad as can be:
though Rome is ...
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Categories:
venetians,
Form: Rhyme
A Masquered of Mystery
...Venetians masqueraded themselves to hide their identity;
their vagueness was allowed openly,
"Be a Casanova, a Shakespeare, a Hamlet :
all are welcome to join the banquet!"
" Keep your masks on...
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Categories:
venetians, celebration, character, imagination, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Peoples
...PEOPLES
Where are they going, this tide of humanity,
Stoically travelling a thousand miles
In the breeze of a hot summer in India,
Clinging to the sides and top of a train
Like flies to a jam pot?
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Categories:
venetians, people,
Form: Free verse
Venice's Splendor
...A city made from nothing,
on a lagoon with shallow waters
to keep the invaders away ;
still today those bell chimes ring out
to remind everyone of her victory
at Lapanto...when the ships
brough...
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Categories:
venetians, history, music, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Ultra, Venetian Sunsets
...Gondolas thrift contently upon a gentian violet
Thrown from dusky sunsets on a marauding wake
Adopting Venetians transpose as the partake;
Sip mulberry wine to toast the ultraviolet.
Cerul...
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Categories:
venetians, nature, peace, social, urban,
Form: Rhyme