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The Sphinx
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...

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Categories: sphinx, addiction, death, depression, lust,
Form: Ekphrasis
SPHINX STONE
SPHINX STONE 

I am Sphinx Stone
Sun stationed statue
silent sculptured synoptic 
not marble or granite 
nor black tourmaline or
crystal sapphire quartz
vortex for Void actualising 
sacred amber ambles

Timelines cutting cross
my magnetic magenta 
miracle to dissipate in
dry desert winds
my gaze unmoved 
as quizzing quantum 
queens swirl around
a Blue...

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Categories: sphinx, africa, age, color, extended
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member She Wast As Inscrutable As the Sphinx
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

   (She with face inscrutable as the Sphinx.)

      Although she was nay forthright,

         Shakespeare wast somewhat polite,

       ...

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Categories: sphinx, humorous, woman,
Form: Limerick

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Premium Member The Great Sphinx of Giza
Sphinx
           inscrutable, mysterious
  perplexing, mystifying, awe-inspiring
   statue, ancient, pharaoh, limestone
       striking, stunning, bewildering
             ...

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Categories: sphinx, creation, mystery, poetry, words,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member Looking Upon the Age-Old Sphinx Wondering
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...

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Categories: sphinx, international, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Writing, Trying, Using Sphinx Links
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...

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Categories: sphinx, funny
Form: Monorhyme



Sphinx Head Mamma Said
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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Categories: sphinx, funny
Form: Limerick
Sphinx Head On Mars?
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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Categories: sphinx, science
Form: Limerick
Window-Sphinx
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...

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Categories: sphinx, lifelonging,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member "sphinx - Dom"
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 ,...

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Categories: sphinx, timefor her, for her,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sphinx
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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Categories: sphinx, life
Form: Light Verse
Sphinx
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...

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Categories: sphinx, destiny, endurance, fate, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sphinx
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...

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Categories: sphinx, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Think Or Not To Think, That Is the Question of the Sphinx
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...

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Categories: sphinx, imagination, natureme,
Form: Free verse
The Sphinx
In the hot sands do you stand
Crouched on all four
Waiting to devour the wanderer
In search of Truth 
The babes of the Jews escaped your fists
So you stand there with your nose in bits...

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Categories: sphinx, funny,
Form: Ekphrasis

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