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Best Saturnalia Poems


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 sunrise
Aliv......

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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 no......

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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 order for a con......

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saturnalia, funny, holiday,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



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 Christmas is really getting quite near
Is all t......

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Categories: saturnalia, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
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 handlers arriving.
Doors ope......

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Categories: saturnalia, america, birthday, childhood, culture,
Form: Ghazal
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 natio......

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Categories: saturnalia, satirebirth,
Form:



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 thought
three legge......

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saturnalia, allegory,
Form: Free verse
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 fat.
The first sign that Christmas is getting ......

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Categories: saturnalia, satire, christmas, time, christmas,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member 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 t......

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Categories: saturnalia, introspection, me,
Form: Rhyme
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 devil costumed in dread
And there pitchy ......

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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,

                                  the darkest tidings of the year.

                             The birth of our Nazarene most likely

      ......

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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 of Saturn.
Or Saturnalia if you prefer.
As ......

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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 coined in Gre......

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Categories: saturnalia, art, beauty, celebration, city,
Form: List
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 neve......

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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 a millennium......

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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things