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Saturnalia
Saturnalia

The Romans celebrated
Sweet Saturnalia
and the Christians waited
for the birth of their god
who suggested a mass production
not wine flowing end of Winter
But the birth of a...

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Categories: saturnalia, satirebirth,
Form: I do not know?



Saturnalia
Cycloidal forms transmuting to the involute
obduration under duress a malleable direction
coming to nothing just the gearing of time
Spartan gates left open to a millennium of...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saturnalia, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Scalar Saturnalia
Welcome to my brain
Scalar saturnalia

Embracing sun and rain
Where rainbows spring euphoria

Where shadows cold and deep
Indulge in dreams of light

Where from the demons reap
The powers to...

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Categories: saturnalia, introspection, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reveille Rev-Uh-Lee
A signal to arise.
I saw it in your eyes.
Reveille.

In good company
Aroused in your bed
Reveling with you
Reveille.

A celebration of the bugle
Your eyes of blue
So close to...

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Categories: saturnalia, morning, romantic, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Christmas, Made of Awesome
Every year someone is always expressing
that Christmas is imperialist, and oppressing
people not of the Christian faith,
That it’s unfairly taken Soltice’s place,
that the historical Jesus was...

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Categories: saturnalia, celebration, christmas, family, holiday,
Form: Rhyme



Solstice
The usurpation of the annual right of solstice
by a quarrelsome religious upstart,
Lead to the re-designation of the celebration
due to its now newly designated Holy part.

In...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saturnalia, funny, holiday,
Form: Light Verse
Diabolus In Suburbia
We are drawn here for the festivity, to glorify His name.
In our crimson best, presents wrapped gaily, to glorify His name.

Joyous revelers and their dutiful...

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Categories: saturnalia, america, birthday, childhood, culture,
Form: Ghazal
Three Sure Signs of Christmas Repost
There are twelve days of Christmas, everybody knows that
But there are only three signs to know, it’s time to start getting fat.
The first sign that...

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Categories: saturnalia, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Three Sure Signs of Christmas
Three Sure Signs of Christmas
There are twelve days of Christmas, everybody knows that
But there are only three signs to know it’s time to start getting...

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Categories: saturnalia, satire, christmas, time, christmas,
Form: Light Verse
Jon Konnu
Here they come the prancing drums and fife
That call the children from their village life
To run with glee and meet with fear horsehead,
Whooping bway or...

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Categories: saturnalia, anniversary, fantasy, satire, social
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Devotions of Noel
Saturnalia, the pagan worship of winter solstice,

                  ...

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Categories: saturnalia, christmas, culture, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Could I Rewrite This One
If it was December and….
If I was an ancient Roman
But I assure you, I am not….
I would be feasting and merrymaking like mad
Celebrating the Festival...

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Categories: saturnalia, writing,
Form: Free verse
Festival of the Fools
Festival of the Fools!

Festival of the Fools
in which is celebrated in different culture as different names
originally celebrated by most cultures on January first
which was first...

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Categories: saturnalia, art, beauty, celebration, city,
Form: List
Premium Member Getting Into the Christmas Spirit
Getting into the Christmas spirit,
by examining my introspection
and making new plans for the future;
and sparking up your imagination...
could anyone imagine me dressed
as Santa Claus, who...

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Categories: saturnalia, devotion, faith, family, children,
Form: Narrative
Dream Lady
Saturnalia my Dream 

Cycloidal forms transmuting to the involute
obduration under duress a malleable direction
coming to nothing just the gearing of time
Spartan gates left open to...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saturnalia, evil, life,
Form: Free verse

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