glimpsed quick lucre vitality
kingfisher vivid dips and pockets silver
as patching strides upon your Arno's bank
bust immortals cast their shadow vital rank
twixt this golden colder ageing shower
traipsing gamely after ours
such portly flags
by foot wipe burnished such palaces
by foot wipe furnished
egos press to son of grandest
grandeur gilded marble highs
crowning homes eternal nurture
convert takes on human nature
encrustures of infernal torture
abrupt departures are defined
by sculptor's scoop and draftsman's line
file away Medici stone
reveal the men long dusty gone
jack the boots in Jesus sandals
snuffers out of human candles
stoney eyed through marble toes
Firenze finery to go
get a lift a breath a view
step a step a two hundred and one
a two hundred and two.....
catch the bowl
catch more than a several of cypress
catch an olive or two or
two thousand.....
catch the view catch the sun
catch the hills that surround
catch the green of the statue on blue
catch the bridge
just the one that remains
from a world war or two
..... where the goldsmiths remain
plying trade and the bypassers buy
and bye bye by and by
catch the view
catch the bake
catch the colour of roof tile
clutched uniform terracotta cocoon
be amazed by the butterflies!
above between surpassing all
Duomo dome's Brunelleschi thrall
which ceilings take you to the ground
so prostrate view their full extent
such great and goodness to the fore
expounded richness vision richness hued
the rest skewed hellish evermore
mean Renaissance men in torrents
the future's in the past in Florence
© Mark Shepherd