Best Dionysus Poems

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 with life, I'm lost in your force 
As waves of strange visions rend me apart, 
For purpose that has no...

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Tanka/ Haiku

Dionysian’s
Drunken Roman Bacchante (1)  footnotes 
God of the Maenads'  (2)
Female appreciation
Tainted murderous servants

Maniacal twist
Hold each- a sensuous kiss
Trained not by hubris
Phalli held in revere
His spirit flows through rapture

Beloved Bacchus
Honors Ancient Helena
Amathia(3) scorns-          ...

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i run thru ashes of pompeii 
and i bring good news
it's great food 
and my grapes will come to fruition
but i sleep close to the street
next to the mummies
nectar and jam
my news is the same
as it was from the last time
do you recall
as
when no one...

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Deity of Greek myths
Descendent of Great Zeus
Demeter birthed this son
Dwelled on Mount Olympus
Divined as god of wine
Devoted to vino
Drama enthusiast



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Dancing the intoxicating dance of Dionysus
Ummm well I got that special feeling now
Somewhere deep in the mountains overlooking
Athens, sounds of ecstasy echo through the 
Night as a pillar of fire grows higher and higher
Feeding the soul full of desire...
And by the light of the moon...

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I told the world about my cure
Nobody gave a damn 
For a moment, I felt just like a god
I’m reminded I’m a man 

That boulder that’s upon your back?
It’s a tiny pebble, bro
How big you think the audience is
To your one-man show? 

In the theater...

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An angel may light the righteous way.
The tap may be narrow and up.
It may be a rainy day.
Dionysus chuckles.
For his drunk fellows,
He always finds
Kinky tricks
To make beer
And wine
Flow!
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In rare gustation dine we here tonight!
For you, my feast; for me, your pleasant sight!
And for them both, I raise my glass to cheer:
Let all that’s sober end before the year!
Let music, wine and wantonness prevail!
Let revelry erase the dry and stale!
And light your mortal...

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Fair Dionysus, friend to all that’s small,
Rememberest thou 'divinity' at all?
Amidst thy congress here with drunks and whores,
Does any finer thing escape their roars?
The greater beauty lies in greater thought:
So, bless the seeker, not the stolid sot!
And do they ever look upon a star
As aught...

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Mayst tell them, though they leave a sacred land,
Where every inch with rich conception spanned,
With diligence, in Hades mayst they find
A path that to Elysian Fields doth wind.

So many burdens, all the Earth now mars;
So many pleasures, circumstance doth slay;
Enough, I say, of all of...

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Doomed, his mom was mortal
Dad's thigh (Zeus) his birth place
Dubbed the "god of the grape"
Developed winemaking
Danced with drunken pleasure
Dithyrambs: songs for him
Double:  Roman Bacchus 

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My friends, it is a dismal thing
At such an hour to pound and ring!
Let others shiver if they must,
I shall not greet a sky of rust!
Let first the air be half so warm
As in this covered nest I form.
And then, perhaps, if need of it,
I’ll...

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He saw the noble beast collapse in blood and dirt, 
Lashed by the owner’s cruel and ruthless crop
He rushed to cradle its head upon his stained coat, 
And wept with sorrow that choked his broken heart.

He shared the pain of the majestic steed, 
He cursed...

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Will you believe
What they say about
My life and my heart?
Do you not doubt

That all I know
Is drunken mirth?
A purposeless child—
Is that all I am worth?

Will you ever see
That there always is
History that is hidden;
A past that you'll miss

Should you only watch
For what you believe now?
For...

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When grapes ripen and flow down barrels,
drunk ancient Greeks abandon morals,
roar accosts their ears from distant cave,
ushers season of feasting and rave!

With every roar spreads odour of wine,
with it fear! he is coming to dine!!!
wander not far, nor be lured by smell,
when he comes to...

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