Ovid Poems - Poems about Ovid

Where is My Hannah Arendt?

...A make-up artist?  Um … no thanks.
That’s not my kind of courtship caper.
I want the girl who wrote a paper
on Massachusetts’ failing banks.

You can keep your belly-dancer.
The nimbleness that...

Missing

...My friend talks
of Ovid and the Vespers
She is on a train
past Colchester
to see her parents
I will surely miss her
I always get this way
when shes gone
I will go to bed early
and hope to ge...

Nature Poems by Michael R Burch

...These are nature poems about unusual plants like the moonflower and agave.



Moonflower
by Michael R. Burch

after Robert Hayden

Marveling,
we at last beheld the achieved flower—
both aw...

what is

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        The ends justify the means...

         Machiavelli, an oxymoron

           or Ovid, a paraphrase (?)...

NUANCES

...I consulted with Spinoza
he spoke of God and Nature
I want something ovid
that cant be destroyed
Truman and Eisenhower
grew the Military Industrial complex
but in my dreams
I cannot deny that ...

ATROCIOUS DOUBT

...

         

        The ends justify the means
          Machiavelli oxymoron
           or Ovid paraphrases......

The Dangling Decameron

...Some kind of Boccaccio 
they open The Book, 
borrowing thoughts 
and stories from muses,
for it is a tome 
in its entirety,

each muse, a Page, unamused,
to be plucked from tomb,
those sepia...

New York New York Again

...NEW YORK NEW YORK AGAIN
When I go to the Service as soon as I get up
I listen to Frank Sinatra's song
“New York New York”
The city that never sleeps, as me
And I  with pleasure, like Liza Minnel...

Sitting With Koans

...
"Sitting with Koans" 

Zazen sits zafu'd in the zendo
with the poetic monkey minds
echoing the sound of two hands clapping
producing sound bites bitten like Botticelli repr...

Replete With Colonial Army Spirits

...Though I posted the following poem 
(B)efore (C)ovid, a sense 
of glee donned my being 
the notion arose to trumpet anew
said literary handily crafted endeavor.

Not far from here – Perkiomen V...

All In the Name of Progress

...All In The Name Of "Progress"

The wrecking ball long since
demolished boyhood house zen
located at 324 Level Road,
a once nonagricultural,
pastoral, rural residence,
which soulful yen
I call...

Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix

...Juvenilia: Early Poems IX

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.

Shock
by Michael R. Burch

It was early in the...

Paradise Lost Again

...PARADISE LOST AGAIN

I’ll write an epic, I resolved,
In the style of Milton or Ovid.
Then thought of all the work involved,
And decided I couldn’t be bovid

17th August 2021
...

A Green-Eyed Monster

...Envy is a green-eyed monster
wrote Shakespeare and Ovid

You think they were jealous
~ of the appearance of covid?...

Ovid-20 - Social Flocking

...The morning was breaking and sheep were awaking,  
which was much as the sheep all expected to do 
But this morning's arising was far more surprising –  
a mask fairy had brought them all somethin...

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