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Best Penelope Poems

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Odysseus and Penelope
Does true love is worth waiting for?
 
Where are you my Odysseus?
For love and eternity I will be yours,
I will love thee for my whole...

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Categories: penelope, feelings, love, missing,
Form: Prose Poetry



Cry No More, Penelope
They weave, they weave
They weep and they weave
Smarting under the persecuting whips -
Verbal, literal or carnal whips
They weep, they weep.

Locust-like they swarm the streets
To reach...

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Categories: penelope, sympathy,
Form: Rhyme
My Beautiful Penelope
Oh my sweet and beautiful Penelope
Oh how beautiful you are, and when I see you come down
to the pearl gates of immortality and come down...

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Categories: penelope, art, beautiful, beauty, blue,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: penelope, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Chapter and Verse a Live Poetry Recital
Good evening Ladies 
May I say, I am honored and privileged
As this is the first ever time
I have read in front of a woman’s only...

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Categories: penelope, animal, farm, humorous, poetry,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Canto Xxvi Hell Translation Part2
After the flame had come here for news
When to my duke right seemed time and too place,
In such a way I heard him to diffuse:

“You...

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Categories: penelope, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
I Am My Father's Son
They were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one...

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Categories: penelope, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Princess and the Pimp
A preening promiscuous princess posed as "Penelope Prude."
With her poodle and parasol; well-perfumed, on Pine Street she stood.
A pompous pilfering pimp with a pink-painted poodle...

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Categories: penelope, funny,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Troy, the Defeat, Odysseus Punishment
Troy, The Defeat, Odysseus Punishment

Apollo, the archer-god, was quite unfair
Slew Eurytus for a vain archery boast
Mortal lives he had so very little care
Sending Greek ships...

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Categories: penelope, betrayal, conflict, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chapter and Verse
Chapter and Verse


Borrowed words


Overdue loans
On faded words
Tears melting ink
Wisdom's die 
Collection time
Bankrupt soul
With no words to share


Overdue books

Wine splashes the pages
Of my mind
Melancholy whispers to...

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Categories: penelope, introspection, love, passion, philosophy,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Well Worth Waiting In Part 2 - Collaboration
Eric’s revitalised me and my home 
Over his body my fingers would roam
He’s great at fixing and gluing
Expert at banging and screwing
I’m so happy that...

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Categories: penelope, boyfriend, humorous, jealousy,
Form: Limerick
Deep In the Basement
Deep in the basement of the east wing
Lady Penelope keeps a Thing
    With big teeth and claws
    And horrible...

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Categories: penelope, gothic, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Kafka Disordered
“Kafka Disordered”



Kafka disordered 
never complete
in himself 
burning stories 
fuel for Nero
dreams of you
reading him 
wrapt under 
the covers
of his last pages 
tattooing his voice
on your...

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Categories: penelope, dream, muse, mystery,
Form: Romanticism
The Odyssey Redux Part I - From Trozan Shores To Aeolian Isle
Now gather around, ye lusty lads, a tale I'll tell to thee
Of jealous Gods, monsters and ill-fated men who sailed the sea.
My tale is set...

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Categories: penelope, adventure, fantasy, myth, mythology,
Form: Epic
Fab Virgil
The bikies are in town today
 Least they're trying to make us think so
 I know different
 Thunderbirds, they really are
 FAB Virgil
 I heard...

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Categories: penelope, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things