Best Calliope Poems

"Here rise to life again, dead poetry!
Let it, O holy Muses, for I am yours,
And here Calliope, strike a higher key,
Accompanying my song with that...

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My muse sighs and leaves me unwell
     and cuckolds me like faithless love
as if she's ne'er my god or belle,
afflatus or...

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A full moon is shining, tethered and swinging
I'm holding a ticket. Bells seem to be ringing
Somehow the landscape, whitewashed in winter
is distorting the thicket all...

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Let me own the Night 

Let the others play on bright sun-filled days,
in song and merriment, play on.

Let me own the shadows that seep into...

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cold’s fire rages
against dawn’s smoldering clouds
calliope colors sing
a treetop chorus
sad songs of jubilation
fulfilling soft budded dreams...

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Gloaming is wont to quell
the ginger smoke,
expunge the crimson flames
that surround the mill.
Lilac shadows encroach 
to cloak the hull's mossy patina.
Autumn's wild rooster,
struts its brash...

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Inside my mailbox late last month; nine packs of seeds - a mystery!
I hadn't ordered anything, but curious was I to see
what might become of...

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"All the Dark Stallions"



Calliope burns 
ecstatic bright star
fire brands, all her marks

both hands 
holding the ropes
firmly fast today 

slow burn 
tomorrow
warm whispers 

gently towards
the unlit...

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Her songs come and make love to me 
each note stroked so enticingly 
they twist and they twirl 
engulfing her pearl 
I reside deep in...

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Enchanted by this lovely clement day
while writing poems like Calliope -
I wish in springtime I could ever stay.

To see the sun come up above the...

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The Last Forever

The last time I saw her face,
 with a halted heart, 
and no love to replace…

The last time I kissed her smile,
of the...

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I collected the kinetic swirls
of differing shades
in the dizzying reflections
of how you made me feel

Whirling affects
blurred in calliope sonnets
and brass ring reachings
while riding a paisley...

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Drawn in was I by a loud cheery sound.
Calliope! I rushed straight to the place
where beautiful creatures moved round and round
in quite a wondrous and...

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Empathy Ink Not Blood / Trolls on the Run

           An Army of pens descended, the...

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Ciggy’s day out this is just another normal walk but where shall I go to the haberdashery or to the local library on this wonderful...

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