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Courtesan Poems - Poems about Courtesan

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Premium Member Moulin Rouge
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, art, dance, french, history,
Form: Verse



An anticlimactic sexual event
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, 12th grade, adventure, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Ono No Komachi Translations Iii
...Ono no Komachi Translations These are my modern English translations of the ancient Japanese poems of Ono no Komachi… "It's over!" Your words drizzle like dismal rains, bringing tears, as I ......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, beautiful, beauty, dream, flower,
Form: Tanka
Adagio Glissando and Aria Oratorio Sips Hav
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, engagement, music,
Form: Ballad
Champagne Original
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Champagne
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
As In the Films
...Amid her degraded miserable life in the red light area she hummed the songs of the hindi films; looking at her image in the mirror dreamt herself as the heroine of a romantic movie opp......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, film, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How's It Do Dat
...How does courtesy become a courtesan ~ Same way sunny becomes the sun......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, analogy, word play,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Only Her Eyes
...courtesan only her eyes are silent......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, fantasy,
Form: Senryu
Madame Executive Executor
...Awake hair hairstyles... appropriate clothes modeled... Offered mouth, painted... hidden mistakes, Clear Skin... lively gestures, rehearsed lines... So she goes, clearing paths, she goes ......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, allegory, allusion, analogy, extended
Form: Light Verse
Sotoba Komachi
...Sotoba Komachi is a modern Noh play by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). Mishima's play is based on an ancient work by Kan'ami Kiyotsugu (1333-1384). The first kanji means "stupa" (the dome of a shrine) whi......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, beautiful, beauty, girl, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Speaking With Shakespeare
...I ran into Shakespeare the other day. Told him I too am writing a play. He asked about the premise, which was a reeler. I had no idea he is a big premise-stealer. I told him the plot, and he to......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
Modern Sonnets I
...MODERN SONNETS I I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse. Mak......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, art, freedom, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
Renee Vivien Translations
...Renee Vivien Translations Song by Renée Vivien loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch When the moon weeps, illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful, my memories cr......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, analogy, image, imagery, love,
Form: Sonnet
Veronica Franco Translations
...Veronica Franco translations Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose. Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I) by Veronica Franco lo......Read the rest...
Categories: courtesan, desire, french, joy, love,
Form: Free verse

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