"salvos" poems
In Rome on the Campo di Fiori
Baskets of olives and lemons,
Cobbles spattered with wine
And the wreckage of flowers.
Vendors cover the trestles
With rose-pink fish;
Armfuls of dark grapes
Heaped on peach-down.
On this same square
They burned Giordano Bruno.
Henchmen kindled the pyre
Close-pressed by the mob.
Before the flames had died
The taverns were full again,
Baskets of olives and lemons
Again on the vendors' shoulders.
I thought of the Campo dei Fiori
In Warsaw by the sky-carousel
One clear spring evening
To the strains of a carnival tune.
The bright melody drowned
The salvos from the ghetto wall,
And couples were flying
High in the cloudless sky.
At times wind from the burning
Would driff dark kites along
And riders on the carousel
Caught petals in midair.
That same hot wind
Blew open the skirts of the girls
And the crowds were laughing
On that beautiful Warsaw Sunday.
Someone will read as moral
That the people of Rome or Warsaw
Haggle, laugh, make love
As they pass by martyrs' pyres.
Someone else will read
Of the passing of things human,
Of the oblivion
Born before the flames have died.
But that day I thought only
Of the loneliness of the dying,
Of how, when Giordano
Climbed to his burning
There were no words
In any human tongue
To be left for mankind,
Mankind who live on.
Already they were back at their wine
Or peddled their white starfish,
Baskets of olives and lemons
They had shouldered to the fair,
And he already distanced
As if centuries had passed
While they paused just a moment
For his flying in the fire.
Those dying here, the lonely
Forgotten by the world,
Our tongue becomes for them
The language of an ancient planet.
Until, when all is legend
And many years have passed,
On a great Campo dci Fiori
Rage will kindle at a poet's word.
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Preamble at the showdown the fighters eye to eye
Droning pulse of discourse from the referee is dry,
Bouncing back to my corner the butterflies take charge
For the other guy’s a monster, like a Doberman at large.
Bell resounds alarmingly, I shuffle forth to meet
A combination thrown with steel…it whacks me off my feet.
Seeing stars I resurrect to lurch about the ring
To try to keep some distance from the monster’s punching sting.
Roaring crowd are baying now they call to take me out
The Doberman is grinning for he reckons it’s a route,
The flashing light confusing, the noise a steady din
As the monster comes in quickly to achieve expected win.
Throwing jabs to keep him back, retreating to the rope
I cover up with everything to give myself some hope
He pounds with his salvos they hammer hard and fast
His breathing rasping in my ears I pray to God I last.
Saved by the bell and cold water, such disgrace
The crowd are loudly booing, I’ve not put leather on his face,
A wash of resolution hotly surges from within
So I **** the mouth guard back and rush on out to tackle him.
Defensive expectations had him open up his chin
So I feinted with a left and launched a mighty right with spin,
Boring in with fury and a combination score
I hit him with an uppercut which traversed from the floor.
Miraculously the eyeballs rolled and disappeared from sight
I threw another flurry…but had no one to fight
Flat out on the deck he lay, the Doberman was out
As I bounced around like Rocky to the punters frenzied shout.
Camera flashes blinded as the raving crowd went wild.
It defied all expectations, I was the sacrificial child.
Bets were laid that I would fall within a round or two
The screaming din reflected that all bets were in the poo.
The countdown took forever and I swear I watched each stroke
And kept one eye on the fallen, should he rise he’d go for broke,
My amazement with two wobbly knees and heaving lungs of fire
When my leaden glove was held aloft to victory entire.
Winners come and winners go but this I’ll not forget
When fortune favoured sweetly…and I collected on the bet!
Marshalg
My thanks to Shane Cameron…a real fighter.
14 April 2013 (Pukehana Paradise)
© 2013 Marshal Gebbie
Apr 14, 2013
Apr 14, 2013 at 12:45 AM UTC
Crushes always start of small and quiet.
Lovers muse of the spark from that first kiss.
The wild, untamed feelings cause a riot.
Salvos of love heard from heavens to abyss.
Love is tame like a zephyr through the trees.
Love radiates more than the sun in June.
The pod of love subsumes only two peas,
And over time, love will always prune.
Love is within a fine ring of crystal.
Love can be found amongst a lowly bar.
Real love can't start in front of a pistol,
But maybe by the strum of a guitar.
At the end of life, heartthrobs have brooded:
That true love can never be concluded.
Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014 at 10:52 PM UTC
She sat contained in the all-encompassing embrace
His arms a welcome warmth
as they sat under the smoldering fires of dead days past
They drank and spoke wildly as sanguine freely flowed forth from the glass
As it swirled upon the inside of their mouths
Puckering stained puce lips and drawing mandalas in the clouds
Rich with color and endless ingenuity as the tall grass softly swayed
Carrying music to their ears
From time to time exchanging glances
Witnessing the last salvos burst in the dusk
Heralding daybreak
She knew there with the breath of dawn caressing her face laying against the heaving of his heart that she would never see him again
Aug 13, 2011
Aug 13, 2011 at 2:15 AM UTC
Una gota de rocio
Una caricia de lascivia
Dos cuerpos unidos,
Enlazados y conectados
Perdidos en el otro,
En una danza secreta
E intima
La concrecion del deseo,
Sin ataduras, ni espacios
Para el ego
Juntos en la Unión sacra
Y perfecta, dos mitades
De un puzzle cosmico
Llegando a puerto
Sanos y salvos, el
triunfo de la verdad
La HERMOSA consecuencia
De la pasion, y la dulce
recompensa de tus labios
Un pedazo del cielo es
yacer en tus brazos
Y tú cuerpo, sobre
El mio, alcanzando la
Gloria
Mientras bajo tu cuerpo
Descanzo yo y mi
Alma serenos
Absorto y perdido
En la dulzura de
Tu cuerpo
Y una caricia de lascivia
De mis dedos en ti
Y tu reaccion HERMOSA
es la gloria para mi
Y la musica d tus labios
Es cancion divina
Y la caricia lasciva
Y el eco de tus ojos
Resuena al despertar
Como tu respiración
En mi oido
Yacer a tu lado, perdido
En tus brazos de alabastro
Y tus labios de rubi,
mientras tu alma brilla
De placer y verdades
Y el deseo que nos une
Perdido en tus brazos de
alabastro, quizas fui
Hallado.
Jun 7, 2018
Jun 7, 2018 at 7:14 PM UTC
Tristes van los zamoranos metidos en gran quebranto;
retados son de traidores, de alevosos son llamados;
más quieren todos ser muertos que no traidores nombrados.
Día era de san Millán, ese día señalado,
todos duermen en Zamora, mas no duerme Arias Gonzalo;
aún no es bien amanecido que el cielo estaba estrellado,
castigando está a sus hijos, a todos cuatro está armando,
las palabras que les dice son de mancilla y quebranto:
-Yo he de lidiar el primero con don Diego el castellano:
si con mentira nos reta, vencerle he y hágoos salvos;
pero si cualquier traidor hay entre los zamoranos,
y él nos reta con verdad, muerto quedaré en el campo.
Morir quiero y no ver muerte de hijos que tanto amo.
Las armas pide el buen viejo, sus hijos le están armando,
las grebas le están poniendo; doña Urraca que allí ha entrado,
llorando de los sus ojos y el cabello destrenzado:
-¿Para qué tomas las armas? ¿Dónde vas, mi viejo amo:
pues sabéis, si vos morís, perdido es todo mi estado?
¡Acordaos que prometistes a mi padre don Fernando
de nunca desampararme ni dejar de vuestra mano!
Caballeros de la infanta a don Arias van rogando
que les deje la batalla, que la tomarán de grado;
mas él sólo da sus armas a su hijo don Fernando:
-¡Dios vaya contigo, hijo, la mi bendición te mando;
ve a salvar los de Zamora; como Cristo a los humanos!
Sin poner pie en el estribo don Fernando ha cabalgado.
Por aquel postigo viejo galopando se ha alejado
adonde estaban los jueces, que ya le están esperando;
partido les han el sol, dejado les han el campo.
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*Hour of terse movement and ambiguity
Gales rushing to secure their invisible voids
Anchored Goliaths pressure their manacles in turbulent , leaf -
revealed vortices , white feather cirrus highlight the blue crown of
Mother Earth as Elven cool day chant and witchcraft mock
the dying salvos of Lord Summer* ..
Oct 4, 2016
Oct 4, 2016 at 12:20 PM UTC
Padre viejo y triste, rey de las divinas canciones:
son en mi camino focos de una luz enigmática
tus pupilas mustias, vagas de pensar y abstracciones,
y el límpido y noble marfil de tu testa socrática.
Flota, como el tuyo, mi afán entre dos aguijones:
alma y carne; y brega con doble corriente simpática
para hallar la ubicua beldad con nefandas uniones,
y después expía y gime con lira hierática.
Padre, tú que hallaste por fin el sendero, que, arcano,
a Jesús nos lleva, dame que mi numen doliente
virgen sea, y sabio, a la vez que radioso y humano.
Tu virtud lo libre del mal de la antigua serpiente,
para que, ya salvos al fin de la dura pelea,
laudemos a Cristo en vida perenne. Así sea.
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Thick-fingered hand clasped around the nape of my neck—
—the hand of god. Of fate. Of whatever held that previous speck
of universe in his freckle-speckled hand.
Clasping a prayer between my narrow fingers and searching—
—may I please have an answer? A father in the sky? Somebody
to yell me back down from this high branch?
The oak tree me and Sophia climbed when we were nine—
—the godlessness of it all. We were Pagans then. God was
my mother’s perfume lingering on her scarf.
God was my best friend at thirteen in the aisle of Salvos—
—a piercing in a carpark. Half a gram rolled up in ripped-up
and still-flimsy bible page.
Cherry chapstick ******* smoke from Corinthians 16:14—
—the sun falling down behind us. Wax melting. The crinkle of
foil between your freckle-speckled hand.
Sep 10, 2025
Sep 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM UTC
Una gota de rocio
Una caricia de
Lascivia
Dos cuerpos unidos
Enlazados y juntos
Perdidos en el otro
En una danza secreta
E intima
La concrecion del deseo,
Sin ataduras, ni espacio
Para el EGO
juntos en la union sacra y
perfecta, 2 mitades del puzzle
Cosmico
Llegando a puerto, sanos y salvos
El triunfo de tu verdad
Sobre sus mentiras y sus
egos, mas alla de todo
La hermosa consecuencia
De la pasion, y la dulce recompensa
De tus labios
Es el tesoro de montecristo
Y tu placer mi deber divino
Para con mi diosa,
Que comanda y me ama en
Sueños
Artemisa eres,
Oh musa secreta
Eres la dueña, y el
Tesoro, del que salio
Del infierno
Y su secreta pasion,
Verdad y vida
Un pedazo del cielo, es
yacer En tus brazos
Con rastros de ti en mi
Cuerpo, y los dolores dulces,
De haberte amado.
Jul 16, 2017
Jul 16, 2017 at 4:26 PM UTC
Hay quienes creen que el amor se expresa con palabras.
Tan ingenuos, piensan que un “te amo” mentiroso y superficial bastaría para enamorar a una mujer que ya conoció el vínculo más puro.
Ella sabe que lo eterno no viste de flores ni de promesas, sino de heridas y verdad.
Que no se grita, se sacrifica.
Y que el mayor acto de amor que recibió fue de un hombre perfecto, sin pecado, que fue torturado y crucificado para que todos nosotros fuésemos salvos.
¿Cómo podrían amarla aquellos que no conocen al que dio su vida por amor?
Apr 18, 2025
Apr 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM UTC
*A Jack *** chortles at it's own reflection
Morning frogs join the odd celebration
October Pines scrub in quickening , windy
salvos , Autumn curt Sun battles wispy cloud cover
in a spirited game of recognition
Amberdeen beeves on the morning call
Steel buckets , log chain , tie wire and tin ,
tick treble notes in the pursed Fall breath
Scarecrows come alive , Gods hand painted-
leaves begin to shine
Shine piedmont morn
Shine in cool , new day virtuosity
Commanding the heart of your native , grateful son*....
Sep 24, 2016
Sep 24, 2016 at 2:12 PM UTC