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Shade of Ulysses Butterfly
Her head tilted back towards the darkened clouds,

Mocha curls rests on shoulder blades,

Lids shut tight hiding emerald eyes shedding crystals,

Water rushed from the grey sky,

Shades...

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Categories: ulysses, depression, loss, people, sad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: the Incubation and Metamorphosis of Ulysses
This is a story about a Butterfly

She escaped the Boilermaker
Through transformation. 
To transform required a period of incubation, 
a need to sleep to dream and...

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Categories: ulysses, courage, daughter, faith, inspirational
Form: Free verse
One Knee
Poet:  Ken Jordan 
Poem:  One Knee 
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan 
written:  September 2017


One Knee

Yes, I kneel down on one knee 
damn...

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Categories: ulysses, africa, america, betrayal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Cyber Nymph
The Cyber Nymph
Loch David Crane
August 18, 1997

Lie back--expose your belly ring		
up unto the sky. . .
I just hope when I get down close
it won't put...

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Categories: ulysses, funny, funny love, internet,
Form: Ballad
Telemachus One
***At the bequest of a friend 
or two this poem is a 
continuation of Tennyson''s
 'Ulysses'; though I don't
expect much glory for this
write, it was...

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Categories: ulysses, earth, future, mythology,
Form: Classicism



Premium Member Aphrodite, In Sweet Dreams of Bliss I Cry Out To You, Sonnet Doubles
Aphrodite, In Sweet Dreams Of Bliss I Cry Out To You,
Sonnet Doubles

Aphrodite, princess of my romantic dreams
burning flames to my heart's inner desires
your beauty gifted,...

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Categories: ulysses, appreciation, art, beauty, dream,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Nocturnal Adventure
The sun descended slowly
Behind the purple hills, sending
Long shadows behind her.
Night enveloped the vista.
I walked barefoot on the beach.
Did I hear sirens singing?
Their alluring song...

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Categories: ulysses, love, night, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Little Poem
(I.)

Of Ulysses, Homer's Troy And The Wrathful Gods

I, who am of the ancient tribe of trees
  Climb slowly.

Eons unguessed, ere I shall see the...

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Categories: ulysses, art, creation, deep, passion,
Form: Rhyme
American Green
American green




      The tree of life gave birth to a nation and these men who helped nature 
  ...

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Categories: ulysses, america, money,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wound That Never Heals
Science can’t save you, neither can religion,
at least Popper and Niebuhr, philosophers and poets,
are entertainers, which is why actors and athletes
are paid so much. Thanks...

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Categories: ulysses, christian, husband, mother, music,
Form: Verse
Premium Member How General Grant Won the Civil War
He could fight and win battles, could this General Ulysses Grant!

   Other of Lincoln's generals were continually sayin', "I can't!"

Though 'twas well-known that...

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Categories: ulysses, history, humorous, war,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Into the Heart of a Soulless Existence
Into The Heart Of A Soulless Existence

Damn these flies! 
There must be a half dozen of them 
Buzzing around my tiny room here, 
Buzzing and...

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Categories: ulysses, education, girl, heart, lost
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes Writers - Xxxviii
Unquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII

     for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski  
     who...

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Categories: ulysses, creation, england, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Crystal Magnificent Morning
Crystal Magnificent Morning

You should see LA 
In the crystal magnificent morning of continuing time. 
It is a magic that has to be seen to be...

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Categories: ulysses, memory, lost, lost, magic,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Canto Xxvi Hell Translation Part1
Enjoy, Florence, because you so great are
That on seas and ground your wings you flutter,
And down in hell your name around spreads far!

I found five,...

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Categories: ulysses, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima

Book: Reflection on the Important Things