Courtesan Poems - Poems about Courtesan

...CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Sung to the tune of “I Paint My Lips Red” by an anonymous courtesan or Li Ch’ing-Chao loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch After swi......

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... (The Apostle Paul is waiting at Athens, and some of the Epicureans and Stoics engaged him in conversation.) Agon, Aidos, Apate, Bia, Corus and Dysnomia (talking amongst themselves) say “What w......

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...NOSSIS There is nothing sweeter than love. All other delights are secondary. Thus, I spit out even honey. This is what Gnossis says: Whomever Aphrodite does not love, Is bereft of her roses. ......

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...Oh, my love, your intoxicating eyes, Like lotus flowers, your lips, a treasure to the skies. Your waist, a velvet lotus, your voice, a cuckoo's call, Leaves me breathless, and in heaven's thrall. ......

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...Sappho Translations VIII by Michael R. Burch Sappho, fragment 68 translation by Michael R. Burch That was then, this is now! In those days my maidenhead was in full bloom, then you … ......

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...through streets of déclassé squalor, i wander, courtesan of chaos my feet bare, ballerina on the dirty floor o the city's kin of decay, ragtag orchestra plays its dirge; an eerie swan song. ......

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... Early in the morning before the sun, We reach the top where the night is done, Shadow of night holding the hand of the light, To start anew and to end a flight, Me and my sister following Grann......

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...a crabby courtesan does not do well when her meanness is seen by clientele the one I knew named angry night crawler Nell was so grouchy, she was a very hard sell the Madame found her a new place ......

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...Rodin so expresive tactile & creative in The Old Courtesan* en plein air his 'intense truth' laid ' bare'......

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...Moulin Rouge The greens and pinks magnetize to my eye Like flowers abloom, in a field espied; That overwhelms creation’s invention With beauty of grandiose dimension Shifting to the win......

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...An anticlimactic sexual event... with Barb Black née Beebee to help set the ghost of little Willy Brandt free (a non German, but germane fellow courtesy Craigslist classified personals of m......

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...Ringhiare verses Knurren, he smoked a Gurka Royal Courtesan, singing "Snorfin Lowgalling" and Lettmi Love You". Two sips of the Sidting Droft ( sherry and white grape juice mix), he began asking thin......

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...You invited me in discreetly laughing at moi you gave me words but no champagne blindfolded I feel behind I tasted your marmalade peel then you played sister moonshine you sweetly sang hymns......

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...You invited me in discreetly laughing at moi you gave me no words of encouragement but only champagne wine blind drunk I fell behind still I tasted your marmalade peel then you played sister mo......

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...Amid her degraded,miserable life in the red light area, she hummed the songs of the Hindi films. Looking at her reflection in the mirror she dreamt herself as the heroine of a romantic movie o......

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