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Rated: GC · Book · Writing · #1543433
Poems and prose written between March 20th, 2009-2010
#645501 added April 24, 2009 at 2:05pm
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166.33 Turner's Venice
Turner's Venice

Smell the lavender of Provence;
squeeze the oranges from Portugal.
Memories have arrived on the ebb tide of autumn,
glide over laments, the slimy flotsam,
the jetsam the springtide brought in.
Wake with the calm of the morning;
work to ferry folk to unload their goods.
In the plaza where merchants are gathering today
linger among their lavender and oranges
not even clouds are running away.


© 2009 Kåre Enga [166.33] 2009-04-11

Companion poem: "166.31 This morning in Venice; Questa mattina a VeneziaOpen in new Window. Both based on this Turner painting Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute, exhibited 1835: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Turner,_J._M._W._-_The_Grand_...

Prompt for the poem "This morning in Venice"

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