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Arachne Poems - Poems about Arachne


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.

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Categories: arachne, mythology,
Form: Pleiades

Premium MemberFlinching

...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

Premium MemberGreatest 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

Premium MemberCanto 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

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