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Best Euterpe Poems

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Shine On, Euterpe, Let There Be Light
a quatern

Shine on, Euterpe, cast your light.
We've not much time so please be brief.
      "A simple answer brings relief
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Categories: euterpe, 11th grade,
Form: Quatern



Premium Member Euterpe
By Mount Helicon we met
Cupid struck; and in love’s net 
We were caught, just you and me
Underneath the willow tree
Past the sunset through the night
Tasted...

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Categories: euterpe, love,
Form: Rhyme
Merry Spring
I write when beauties step into my heart
and when the Muse unveils her very art.

I write when to a wonder, my soul leaps
and when the...

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Categories: euterpe, beauty, heart, hope, inspirational
Form: Couplet
An Inspired Rose
Shall we guilty claim
a rose, as her beauties rain?
when suppressing her prickles
floods of her blood
bedew her roots
absorbed in grace.

Shall we banish beaming scents
of a rose...

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Categories: euterpe, appreciation, beauty, blessing, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seeds of Enchantment
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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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: euterpe, flower, muse, mystery, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



The Violinist
Rays of light ravish the dark,
Breaths are held as if in fear,
Awaited moment treading near,
Eddy devouring the Noah’s Ark.

A figure in black, drunk with awe
Hair...

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Categories: euterpe, art, imagination, music,
Form: I do not know?
A Dreamer
Like a bird
I want to croon daylong
wing off the cage to where I belong.

Like a reed 
I want to sigh my wind
pipe my heart artfully...

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Categories: euterpe, art, beauty, blessing, dream,
Form: Free verse
Gems of Rarity
Endearing words of mine piling in confusion
A soul dropping ink hither and thither in profusion
The muse of beauty denies my pen the spell
Gems of rarity...

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Categories: euterpe, beauty, confusion, inspiration, muse,
Form: Rhyme
The Nine Muses of the Arts
The nine muses
Daughters of Zeus
Inspiring of mortals
And nurturers of the arts
The first was,
The divine Calliope,
Beautiful-voiced,
Was the muse of the epic poets
A writing tablet in her...

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Categories: euterpe, artlove, muse, poetry,
Form: I do not know?
The Nine Muses
Calliope, gives us epic poetry, but not to me
Erato, erotica I’d rather have a cup of tea,
Clio, gives us all that is past and gone
Euterpe,...

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Categories: euterpe, history, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member These Four Muses Sing
These Four Muses Sing


These four
 Muses simply pour
Epic words poets eat
 great writes can't be beat

Calliope sent charm and wit
 those favored she made it...

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Categories: euterpe, art, blessing, creation, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Muses and I
Of all the gods and goddesses
Found in Greek mythology,
My favorites are the nine Muses*,
Each means something special to me:
Calliope is epically bombastic;
Urania has stars in...

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Categories: euterpe, muse, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Knuckle Down
(Summon the Muse)

Calliope drops sensuous
sounds from her fingertips.
My outstretched arms catch
and hold them to my bosom,
wherein they suffer death.

Clio presents her backside.
My impassioned pleas fall
on...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: euterpe, muse, write,
Form: Free verse
A Poet's Dream
Hippocrene (hip'?-kren‘) is a fountain on Mount Helicon, Greece, sacred to the Muses and
regarded as a source of poetic inspiration. 
Mnemosyne (nemoz'ini) is a titan...

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Categories: euterpe, fantasylove, me,
Form: Rhyme
Music, They Say, Can Cheer the Saddest Heart
Angela, sweep hence these leaden clouds.
Music, they say, can cheer the saddest heart.
Euterpe bids her frowning father smile,
so let her now reveal her powers to...

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Categories: euterpe, aubade, music, uplifting,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs