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Taverna Poems - Poems about Taverna


Premium Member A Fine New Day
..."I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..." E.E. Cummings Hello my dearest darling, it was our time to wake, The rustic rooster had already roused my re......

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Categories: taverna, love,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Our Greek Getaway
...Dear friiends those who first read my poem i left an important line out in the donkey story The first dance after our wedding, Was absolutely exciting, intoxicating, My darling whispered in my e......

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Categories: taverna, beach,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member My Mediteranean Dream
...My Mediterranean Dream Into your quiet arms and protectful ways, I wish to race. Across lost decades and never want to be traced. To settle in Thessalonki, and dance the stars away with thee......

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Categories: taverna, fantasy, imagery, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Waitress
...We came walking blind bends at dusk, An overhanging fig picked fresh. No pavements, just a nervous trust that drivers would skirt our single line. Hugging the roadside with torches lit, Pho......

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Categories: taverna, memory,
Form: Narrative
Alien Taverna
...Menu - Prawn eyeballs - as black as a hole in space - Alien squid - with face hugging tentacles - Martian Octopus head - eerily out of place - Flying saucer seabass - sci-fi Metallic ......

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Categories: taverna, fish, food,
Form: Rhyme



Play That Funky Bouzouki White Boy
...trying to sleep take a simple nap but the whirling dervishes in my mind won't stop stomping or dancing and as i'm "one who delights in all manifestations of the terpsichorean muse" my me......

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Categories: taverna, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Silhouettes Under the Stars
... Silhouettes under Starlight Do you recall my sweet, when you opened the Taverna door for me? How beside with joy was I, to step into  a delicious, fog-filled starlit street! With ......

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Categories: taverna, 6th grade, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Greek Taverna
...The Greek Taverna  Where can you be, dancer of my soul? I want it be 1967 right now. Where I can walk into the Minerva Be seated by a handsome host, And with my heart pounding..you are now wal......

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Categories: taverna, joy, longing, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Celestial Dreams
...My Greek Cherub, you stole my soul.. How very much I miss you.. That ....you shall never know. I fly over your house as you sleep and weep crystalline tears, From my ancient soul. Sparking, sa......

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Categories: taverna, age, angel, blessing, dance,
Form: Lyric
A Sorry Sight
...Woke up this morning feeling fine, looked in the mirror at this body of mine, Said to myself, you're such a disgrace, I can hardly bear to look you in the face. Get out there, get some exercise......

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Categories: taverna, body, health,
Form: Rhyme
The Sound of Silence
...A couple of years ago, sad to say, There were bad words and to my dismay, A couple in our village stopped being our friends. We would pass the Taverna in the square, All they ever did was sit and......

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Categories: taverna, sad, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Happy New Year
...The old year is spent, The New not yet sent, The past has passed, The new comes at last. Time to reflect on what has been Time to remember what we have seen Time to look forward to what is to......

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Categories: taverna, celebration, happiness, hope, remember,
Form: Free verse
Life In Cyprus
...Life in Cyprus, Idyllic I would suggest, For each day is filled with Everything we hold dear. Inspired by good friends, Nice people we meet Coming from all different places, Youngsters, t......

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Categories: taverna, happy, nice, social,
Form: Acrostic
The Night, In His Sexual Longing
...In the taverna, he sits, incognito--- (he’s just 16) among them, the men of the past and dawdles over a bottle of beer, where he’s waiting for the night to rest. He stares at his watch: quart......

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Categories: taverna, imagination, life, social, time,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things