Best Sphinx Poems

Her feline grace reclined, 
triumph ruled in Her eyes -
Many sought the blue flamed tryst 
in shaded groves they court with lies.

These men fell power drunk 
tripping on love’s wine; 
its tang turned acrid 
as they lapped the poisoned vine.

The once green forest cinder, 
no water for the lake was dry, 
The valley’s burnt to...

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I am Sphinx Stone, Sun stationed statue
silent sculptured synoptic, not marble or 
granite nor black tourmaline or crystal 
timelines cutting cross my magnetic 
magenta miracle to dissipate in dry 
desert winds, my gaze unmoved 
as quizzing quantum queens swirl 
around a Blue Planet ascending

Sphinx Stone gathering goddess’ goodness 
whilst slippery Sophi-el sprinkle sparkle 
Nile...

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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

   (She with face inscrutable as the Sphinx.)

      Although she was nay forthright,

         Shakespeare wast somewhat polite,

            But saw through her nefarious high...

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Sphinx
           inscrutable, mysterious
  perplexing, mystifying, awe-inspiring
   statue, ancient, pharaoh, limestone
       striking, stunning, bewildering
               mythical, enigmatic
       ...

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For years I lingered in desert sands 
Trying to understand the reason for my being.
Looking upon the age-old Sphinx, wondering 
When, where, why and how was our beginning        
Even made possible?
Sun-baked, 
Together on bended knees we 
Stared into the eternity of the sun 
Rising like a giant orange...

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Did you ever try growing minks?
Or writing poems with kinks?
With dark or colored inks?
And soft and lightened pinks?
Write messages that links,
With the Mysterious Sphinx?
Get on a boat that sinks? 
Use metals made of zinc's?
Go skating at the rinks?
"AW," you say, "That stinks!"
For that, my eye now winks!
And I'll just put a jinx,
On anyone that blinks!!!...

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Mamma said the Sphinx head was made from barley
Which Papa stole from the Mars harvest with Charlie
And if you look real close 
Especially at the nose
It resembles a picture of Bob Marley...

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Was that Sphinx head on Mars
Or some prisoner behind bars
Seems like a mutated face
Of a different race
Like human parts in doctor’s jars...

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She's always there; a watchful, window-sphinx
whose eyes show distances far wider than
the span of concrete gardens growing ink-
like shadows spilled from soles of driven men. 

Young lovers bloom on promise sown in cracks
as if their laughter might defeat the ache
of urban architectures that collapsed
around the coffins over which she's prayed.

Her face, an epitaph of chiseled...

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To find this plotted face that makes me ponder
That raises palms, my own, on either hand
I'll hold a constellation of small conclusions
While coming forth with wise solutions
She taunts me, yet, indeed with ancient riddles
Of mere coincidence, or majestic plan
The likeness climbs the vulnerable mind
If it fails to quiet me with sure decision
What my eyes acknowledge
Must...

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Your Highness, the Triads of the Milky Way galaxy “Planet Earth”
Have evidence of Your “GRAND” - Grand - Father’s”  ‘“ E T E R N I T Y “ ‘
As Your Shrine Shines in the heat of a desolate “Forbidden Dessert of Life”
Crumbled , broken, eroding “ The Shrine of Your Beloved “ FOREFATHERS...

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SPHINX

“What’s it all about? –
Existence    variety
What’s the mystery
Humans    eagles    reptiles    fish?”
“Easy    It’s all about life”...

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The Sphinx, an early Egyptian god
With head of a man and feline’s bod 
Was a helpless kind of deity
Of no use to priest or laity.

God was angered by the golden calf,
But the silly sphinx just made him laugh,
A toy to toss to nearest stars
To land at last on Planet Mars.

It lies there in nonentity
A rock...

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SPHINX

you silent riddle
of the lion stars
ancient in mystery 
staring at omega
in a terrible patience
stone eyes are fixed
at civilization fractures 
ground down by hubris 
all human history's here
in these stinging sands 

stone maned lion
symbol of king solitude
patient as a Bedouin
tending his camel
such appetite for code 
unbroken in timeless 
stare hinting fury is near
awaiting a new born
generator...

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***  C A T and the SPHINX***

Cat is on the prowl
Without taking a step!
Proud fellow, often unseen,
Gracefully gliding by.

He feels he knows it all —
At least all that is necessary to know —
Of the far, the wide, on  
Past the doors and through the walls.

Cat tallies his receipts
   From his surroundings,...

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