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Alice Dvořák-Hughes's avatar

That landscape line 🥹😍

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Depth Charge: Weekly Poetry's avatar

This was so much fun to read! Thank you. Enjoy these last days of travel!

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Imola's avatar

Thank you my friend. Rome is crazy now with the jubilee and new pope but I’m picking up many new writing inspirations!

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Brett Anslow's avatar

I’m so happy that you are in Italy 🇮🇹 living some of your dreams… ♥️♥️♥️

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Imola's avatar

It feels so much like home here! Missing you my friend. ♥️

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Andrea's avatar

Wow Imola, what a poem, so visceral so alive!! I really love it ❤️‍🔥

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Jeannie Ewing's avatar

Imola, my friend! I have been thinking about you so much this week. I really believe you could publish this poem.

My favorite is stanza #2: the juxtaposition of your message of love to your daughter (just in case it is the last thing she remembers of you if your plane crashes) with her reply about whether there is avocado oil. It's where death and life collide. Really well done.

I cannot wait to hear more about your experience!

And I hope the black lace underwear gets its own poem. ;)

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Imola's avatar

Thank you my friend! That stanza got big laughs. And the black lace underwear too much attention… will write more for sure!! So much to take in! Xox

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Flavia Brunetti's avatar

Che bellezza, Imola! Funny, sensual, takes us to Terni (un posto stupendo). Se c'e' una cosa che fa l'Italia e' ricordare al cuore quello che vuole veramente. Sounds like your trip is going marvelously!

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Imola's avatar

Grazie Flavia! Non voglio mai lasciare l'Italia! Qui la mia anima si sente più viva!

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Silvia's avatar

Amica mia! Sono felice per questo tempo prezioso che hai per te!

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Imola's avatar

Cara amica! Si, è troppo bello qui! Ti racconterò tutto con un matcha :) baci

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Amy Brown's avatar

What a journey these beautiful, evocative, sensuous, humorous poems took me on! I really felt like I was there, even inside your skin (as only wonderful poets can manage to do). I see you are soaking in every pleasure, even the ugly ones like sheep shit! So so happy for you my friend! P.S. Will your black lace underwear go on a journey, too? (mischievous giggle here....)

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Imola's avatar

Omg, Amy, the black lace underwear has (inadvertently!) become a legend here! 😂 so far, only the cleaning lady has seen it when it is hanging dry in my bedroom :)

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Imola's avatar

And thank you for your kind words! So much is marinating in my mind and heart while I’m here…

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Liam ☧'s avatar

Wow!!! Great work - Italy is inspiring you!

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Imola's avatar

Yes! I can’t wait to talk to you!!

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