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Best Dionysian Poems

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In Dionysian Sacrifice
I wish to write another song
to show my soul some dignity
which trodden was for ages long
by demons of antipathy
that all its joy 'pends not on...

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Categories: dionysian, philosophy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member Dionysus, Apollo - Balance Me
Dionysian passion fills my soul 
With a stream of life, that knows no restraint, 
Your frantic current defies all control-
Awakens the devil within the saint.

Injected...

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Categories: dionysian, appreciation, art, crazy, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Dominica
Dominica
Gawaine Caldwater Ross

We share melons and papayas
beneath a sun benevolent.
A salty breeze, the river is cool,
and the passion flower blossoms
are fragile but rich. We stroke
their...

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Categories: dionysian, romance,
Form: Blank verse
Life Worth Living
chipping and hacking
sawing and sanding 
this is the life of a creator 
these are his sounds
a cacophony of hustle and bustle 
a primal link to...

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Categories: dionysian, art,
Form: Free verse
Lone Birthday Boy Dancing
Yesterday for my birthday,
I started off
with a bottle of wine...
I took the train
into town...
I had half a bitter
at the Cafe de Piaf
in Waterloo...
I went to...

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Categories: dionysian, addiction, birthday, dance, dark,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 1 With Commentary By T Wignesan
 Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 1 by T. Wignesan

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dionysian, addiction, america, freedom, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Conversion In Rio
The East Meets West Philosophy Association
had their annual 2020 conference in Rio,
when and where anything multiculturally lusty
is more likely to happen,
especially between sunset
and sunrise.

Coincidentally
and existentially
and...

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Categories: dionysian, green, health, humor, passion,
Form: Political Verse
Westerly Far Birds
Let us take you up then
Where litanies of darkness mount the sun
Rest us on the magic night, bleakest evil oars
Arid pair of sleepy rebels float,...

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Categories: dionysian, senses,
Form: Blank verse
Your Beautiful Lethal Life
Shooting star
With a quicksilver mind, 
You deserve to go so far,
Can't someone stop you
Before you ruin your soul
With irreversible harm?
      ...

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Categories: dionysian, addiction, beautiful, dance, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yang-Yin Rejoined
If you are a Zen Buddhist
a Taoist,
where past wealthy resonance
interdependently governs global developing history
with resilient future health projections,

If you are a Zeroist,
or an in-between Zoroastrian,
not...

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Categories: dionysian, community, destiny, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Hungover
Whilst I hover here
wondering if i'll be sick
The hazy details of the nights debauchery
Become clearer with every retch, 
And nothing. 

Who took that photo with...

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Categories: dionysian, friendship, funny, introspection, life,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Virgin Spring
We each have that early spring
post-matriarchal
un-hibernating 
emerging from EarthMother moment,

An awareness memory
of late winter's pregnant demands
to cramp and thrust forward
patriarchally over-powering
in full summer's fertile august...

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Categories: dionysian, dream, earth day, health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Party Crasher
My Halloween party was in full swing. I had gone all out this year and rented an old crumbling, reputed-to-be haunted mansion for the evening's...

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Categories: dionysian, halloween,
Form: Narrative
Tiger
courage in cat form
strolls solemn serene stately---
Dionysian pet


11 April 2022...

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Categories: dionysian, tiger,
Form: Haiku
Drinking Song
I am being born 
again 
and again 
From above
Not from the will of men 

And in these births is one aching desire
to connect with you
my...

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Categories: dionysian, deep, humanity, innocence, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs