The Lyre and The Flute
...Epirus saw the needs of it's people
through the eyes of there need.
While on Mimaki the mounds of architecture
were unveiled to a world wishing for
modern sification .
Turisotto meddled enough ...
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Categories:
arachne, analogy, conflict, extended metaphor,
Form: Ballad
Siren of the Land
...blue eyes, deep and dazzling as the sea
cheekbones sharper than a knife
golden hair, soft to run a hand through
he was a jewel
a sapphire prince
who, upon circumstances unknown
stumbled into a ...
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Categories:
arachne, confidence, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Athena
...A bold warrior goddess
Aided Odysseus
As he murdered Trojans
Adjusts Medusa to
A scary Gorgon, FREEZE
Aptly spins perfect web
Arachne can’t surpass.
2.22.22
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Categories:
arachne, mythology,
Form: Pleiades
Flinching
...FLINCHING
I am sure to flinch
when flying cockroach approaches me.
In zoo, I always avoid the zone of snakes.
Snakes moving spirally
shake my body inch by ...
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Categories:
arachne, 10th grade, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse
I Am But a Poetry God
...Who would date a poet?
And have her name grow,
As a garden's eden history,
Have her lips comply with ink that smear'd,
Ears breed on a poultry of recitations,
A fun-fare of words abridge.
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Categories:
arachne, confidence,
Form: Epic
Arachne
...ARACHNE
Athena,
Goddess of Wisdom
In the heavenly arena,
Weaver of skill
Was believing
That none could match
The beauty of her weaving.
But a young mortal maid, Arachne,
Showed weaving ...
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Categories:
arachne, beautiful, hate, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Light Verse
A Transitory Existence, An Eternal Quintessence
...My tenant body constitutes a lease,
A rented fabric owed to landlord Time,
From smoothened silk to wrinkled leather’s crease,
This shuttled thread is bound in deed to grime.
My mind he stakes a ...
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Categories:
arachne, art, death, life, time,
Form: Sonnet
Greatest Fear
...Greatest Fear
Arachne turned spider by curse of Goddess
to weave and weave non- stop as lifelong process.
Baseless fear of spider is a stupid mania,
scientifically termed ‘...
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Categories:
arachne, fear,
Form: Couplet
Choice of Arachne
...Echo left her voice in Arachne's web
And went to Doctor Day for her throat swab
The spider ate her voice
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Categories:
arachne, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Pied Piper Spider Spidy
...Pied piper Spider Spidy web poet of Lill
Jabbed by muse Arachne she got dressed to kill
She met her hubby Punisluffer
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Categories:
arachne, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Canto Xvii Hell Translation
...“Here the fierce with the thin pointed tail,
Who passes mountains and breaks arms and walls!
Here who with stench can the world assail!”
So my duke started to talk with his calls;
And hinted th...
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Categories:
arachne, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Ode To Arachne
...Lustrous black hangs over pale skin
Gleaming green under deities sight
Wheeling toes transfer lanolin
Watchers skill shadows this neophyte
Who's damning dexterity draws in
The ...
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Categories:
arachne, inspirational, old, old,
Form: Ode
Autumn Spider
...Blind Arachne spins
A veil of shimmering white
For her wedding feast...
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Categories:
arachne, imagination, nature, seasons
Form: Haiku
Arachne's Triumph
...You cause my breath to still
Arachne.
Your handiwork of splendid intricacy
Suspended from the armpits of nature,
vividly displayed through the unfolding mist,
holds me in this moment.
Adornmen...
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Categories:
arachne, nature
Form: Free verse