Spring, the mischievous libertine
...Spring, the mischievous libertine,
Has twitched from the chrysalis of dull realities,
Sneaking, slyly, among norms and tasteless thoughts,
A live torch in the old auditoriums where science quivers...
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Categories:
athenaeum, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Streets of Olde Salem
...My footsteps echoed the echoes of Time
as through the streets of Salem I walked.
The hour was early and the city still asleep
with only a cat sitting quietly on a cold granite sill,
the sky slowl...
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Categories:
athenaeum, halloween, history, october, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Estele Rigia
...He made metalanguage of his own metalanguage and therefore had long since distanced himself from us, behold, he lived in the limbo of a virtual athenaeum and there sprinkled with letters and meanings...
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Categories:
athenaeum, meaningful, wisdom, words,
Form: Prose
Death In the Sanctuary
...Immortality looking invincible,
Athena's arpon arsing shadows,
Amazonite unfading Athenaeum species,
A lasting blade for an immortal legacies,
Fallacies befall the inconsistencies,
Fragr...
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Categories:
athenaeum, anger, betrayal, death, fate,
Form: Free verse
My Town
...From north, south, east and west
This is the town to beat the rest,
Where history and present blend
As through its many streets you wend.
Where once a monastery so great
From every view woul...
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Categories:
athenaeum, city, history, home, me,
Form: Rhyme
Karl Marx House In Trier
...Karl Marx house in Trier.
Know you where it is,
Abode of wisdom today we live,
Renown for industrial change?
Labour unite...still remember the say?
Man! It is a place to be,
Athenaeum of global cha...
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Categories:
athenaeum, celebrity,
Form: Acrostic
Face of a Goddess
...She walked into my universe
silently as her lovely smile.
Rarely such beauty is preserved
Bar, perhaps, a Grecian profile:
some alabaster sculptured head
Cold, soulless in a museum
Of a vener...
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Categories:
athenaeum, beauty, universe,
Form: Verse
American Artist
...He left portraits of six presidents
And of several of their wives.
His brush lent depth and reality
To these ever famous lives.
His works grace great museums
And hang on mansion walls.
They'r...
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Categories:
athenaeum, art
Form: Rhyme