It’s Poetry Friday! Our host this week is Bridget from Wee Words for Wee Ones. Please join her birthday celebration as she contemplates the need for happiness in the world as so many are suffering right now. Thanks for hosting Bridget!
Next week, you’ll find Poetry Friday here, on The Apples in My Orchard, where we’ll continue a birthday-happy theme – marking a milestone in my own life. I agree we Bridget that we still need to embrace the emotion of happiness even though so much that we see is scary and sad.
Today, I continue with the Introduction to Europe through my Acrostic Poetry featuring places we traveled on our cruise through the heart of Europe on the Danube, Main, and Rhine Rivers.
If you missed last week’s post, I wrote about Budapest, Vienna, and Passau. Three countries were covered there – Hungary, Austria, and Germany. Today, we continue our tour with an acrostic poem featuring Melk Abbey in Austria and the cities of Nuremberg and Bamburg in Germany.
There is so much history to the places we traveled, and much of it was scary, evil history that humans inflict on each other – much the same as what is happening now in other parts of the world. Why we cannot learn from our past mistakes is a question I’ve pondered often of late.
Melk Abbey - Austria Majestic buildings collude in Elaborate art and wealth Linger to see the solitude Kinship of monks Almost empty for years But a few remained Buttressed by hills and gardens Enter to feel the past Yellow gold everywhere
© Draft, Carol Labuzzetta, 2023
American Writer
Nuremburg - Germany Never escaping the past Undulating walls surround Reminders of atrocities Evil and propaganda Maximized location Bringing masses Ending the war Retribution through trials Grateful for a future © Draft, Carol Labuzzetta, 2023 American Writer
Bamberg - Germany
Bamberg
Abounds with
Mostly
Bavarian charm
Excelling at
Riches of
Gone by Princes
© Carol Labuzzetta, 2023
American Writer
There are a few more places to go. I hope to write an acrostic poem for each place we visited, if only for my own future enjoyment and reminiscing.
Anthology Update:
The information you need to know about the ekphrastic nature poetry anthology I am working on is that submissions close on November 1st.
Please consider submitting. If you have questions, please let me know at my email: labcar81@gmail.com or by using the contact page on this blog.
The details can be found here:
The information you might like to know is that I’ve already accepted 30 poems from 15 authors, submitting from three countries! These numbers do not include some of my own ekphrastic nature poetry which will be included in the book as well.
With less than two weeks to go, time is running short! Submit today!
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