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Ariadne Poems - Poems about Ariadne

Psyche, Pale
...Psyche, in the morning hours; Belladonna flowers? Dancing stars in silent showers? Glimmers, glows, and glowers! Ariadne, webs to weave? Wisdom, will ye grieve? What ought mortals to believe?......

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Categories: ariadne, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Princess Ariadne had an Empathetic Heart
...King Minos of Crete asked Daedalus, the inventor, to create a labyrinth beneath his palace. He housed Minotaur, a fearsome monster in the labyrinth. Minotaur had the head of a bull and body of a ......

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Categories: ariadne, myth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member In the thicket of spinning days, where fate weaves deep
...In the thicket of spinning days, where fate weaves deep, I seek freedom on paths of stars, my wave of hope. Science tells me to believe in the dance of matter, in the sophism of time's flow, That ......

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Categories: ariadne, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member diamonds
...Flying across the white expanse a dull day becomes coloured with the distant foggy black marks of flight opening wings wide like a murder of beaks thirsty for the blood of the ink of other......

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Categories: ariadne, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death By Gypsy Violin - Prometheus Burning
...Death by gypsy violin Will push you out then pull you in Requiem for a burning pyre Raising twilight ashen choir Up beyond that frozen place Up beyond all time and space No hungry knife shall......

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Categories: ariadne, courage, love, myth, sad
Form: Rhyme



Prime Mover
...Leave a man to him and his words and telescopic terrains will open, as splendid as the midwinter constellations sprayed in a barbarous sublimity across the sky, with the serene orb of Jupiter han......

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Categories: ariadne, inspiration, language, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Minotaur: Part 2
...Cont'd from Minotaur: Part I When Theseus arrived in Crete, he met a lovely maid. She knew what death awaited him and hurried to his aid. She slipped a spool of silky thread......

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Categories: ariadne, myth, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Minotaur: Part 1
...There was a king in ancient Greece, and Minos was his name. His kingdom was an island — Crete. Enormous was his fame. In Athens ruled another king he too — a mighty one. And......

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Categories: ariadne, myth, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What If
...Archimedes slipped in the shower Diogenes drowned in a barrel Thor shook in his thunder Ariadne lost her thread Pinocchio had a broken nose ......

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Categories: ariadne, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Mirrorverse
...Trapped in your mirrorverse I put my faith in thy hands: Guide me or lose me It is all up to you. Within these walls of your eternal reflections It doesn't matter Whether you’ll be my thread o......

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Categories: ariadne, endurance, fate, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Sea Shell
...I am a sea shell exotic and rare delicate, luminescent beyond compare I once was a home for a creature so tiny who hid in my depths protecting her hiney For she was so lovely she gleamed......

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Categories: ariadne, imagination, nature, nonsense, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oh My God
...Oh My God You can do it alone Sissy don’t be a ‘sour puss’ All that rolling a stone uphill is best done in utter ~ Reclusion ~ Oh Godot all that waiting and never to come Almost there an......

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Categories: ariadne, courage, destiny, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From Large To Small
...From ~ LARGE ~ to ~ small ~ K~Konstantin had travelled the world in unbeknown searching~g A~Ariadne lost the plot and her thread a modern Sisyphus on the run~n R~Raised in mat......

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Categories: ariadne, meaningful,
Form: Acrostic
Mythical Nonsense
...Daedulus and Ariadne were walking late one night, Through the maze of Labyrinth, when something caught their sight. A creature fearsome and bold, the mythical Minotaur, Theseus the brave came runn......

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Categories: ariadne, fun, hero, history, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Resurrecting Icarus
...Resurrecting Icarus or A Modern Moral Fable by Rick Folker Kansas City, Mo Daedalus claimed the sky, Built a labyrinth from which Theseus could fly ... Minos enraged, entombed the Tre......

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Categories: ariadne, allegory, death, growth, mythology,
Form: Classicism

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