Venice, Italy

Davide Trame

 

From Venice, in English

 

Davide Trame is an Italian teacher of English. He was born in Venice and continues to live and work in Venice-Italy.

Davide has been writing poems exclusively in English since 1993. They have been published in around two hundred literary magazines since 1999, in the U.K, the U.S.A., New Zealand and elsewhere.

Contests:

 

Re-Tasting. (1st Place Poetry). Summer 2006 Premiere Issue: Big Pond Rumours.

 

Periodical Publications:

 

Davide Trame's work is published in over 200 periodicals from around the world. He is most recently published in "Poetry New Zealand" and "New Contrast" (South Africa) and Nimrod (U.S.).

Offer your response to Davide Trame.

 

 

 

 

Tell him you saw this page at Big Pond Rumour.

Wish

 

 

You

like the long aftertaste of this particular wine,

the smooth scent of leather and wood,

aged oak, caskets of sky and silence,

what rests earth-wise in your mouth and mind

and asks you relentlessly to go back

and look for the sap of its trail,

this in the thereafter you would like to leave

of yourself,

oak barrel bounty and the whole black

star-spangled night to taste

and a river to flow like quiet blood among leaves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Davide with his dog, Ginger.

Rope

 

This long rope my friend

we found lying on the sand

as we entered the beach,

I caught it in my hand, you in your teeth,

and we ran with it.

Your shaking it, your frenzy,

your growling while you pulled

and tried to thrash it in the air

was a joy that trod along,

I am still seeing the length of it

behind us hissing and the line on the sand

zigzagging behind and the jagged

waves spreading down

and skirting its trail.

Its rough texture of knots is still

itching on the palm of my hand,

my skin hot and tingling with salt.

A bright touch, a bright pain,

Heaven's conspicuousness,

what we would never drop.

 

And in my breath

my hand is still pulling now.

 

And you on the chair, your eyes

still darting sideways.
Text Box: This webpage was granted as a prize in the Big Pond Rumour Summer 2006 Issue Contest ~ Vol 1:1 ~ July 2006. Davide Trame won 1st Prize for Poetry.

Davide by the Moldavo restaurant, Venice.

A member since July 2006.

 

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