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Best Ariadne Poems

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Ariadne
Daidalos played with poison
and the gormandizing mind of a king
corrupting DNA with his brilliance.
Poseidon’s patronage,
issues from unknown depths of depravity.

Pasiphae bore this monstrosity
and carried the...

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Categories: ariadne, adventure, devotion, history, inspirational,
Form: Epic



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...

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Categories: ariadne, imagination, nature, nonsense, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From Large To Small
From  ~  LARGE  ~  to  ~  small  ~

K~Konstantin had travelled the world in unbeknown searching~g   ...

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Categories: ariadne, meaningful,
Form: Acrostic
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...

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Categories: ariadne, courage, love, myth, sad
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Journeyman
A Journeyman

Prologue and Epitaph:

I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone

1)	Megalomaniac...

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Categories: ariadne, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Daedalus
I, who now sit alone by this barren shore
Looking vainly out to sea as if 
I thought I could espy distant Crete,
Have become a source...

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Categories: ariadne, myth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Suspended In Time
He was standing there, like a painting by Raphael,
Above a parking garage, for show,
For all to see, behind a bay window,
A forgotten resident of our...

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Categories: ariadne, best friend, emotions, music,
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 
Treacherous Daedalus in a tower
No...

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

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Categories: ariadne, muse,
Form: Free verse
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...

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Categories: ariadne, fun, hero, history, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
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...

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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...

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Categories: ariadne, myth, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
We Were Lovers
we were made from the same pot of gold
bathed in the pool of silence, we learned from each other's woes
i was like the pupil and...

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Categories: ariadne, death, desire, heartbroken, imagination,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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...

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Categories: ariadne, courage, destiny, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Caveat At the Cave
CAVEAT AT THE CAVE

C areful   consider  stop  think  listen  feel  and  go  for  it

A t...

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Categories: ariadne, depression, future,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Shattered Sighs