Courtesans Poems - Poems about Courtesans

...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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...Birds fruitless trees forsake, Swans and cranes leave dried lake, Courtesans scarce to wealth-less cling, Counsellors leave a corrupt king, Honey bees flee from lifeless flower, Beasts forsa......

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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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...He plays by ear the courtesans whispered through the hall. The wizard was astounded, he thought he had heard it all. That bird is actually playing Beethoven’s Fifth? Asked Wiz McGall. Yes, and he ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...Aha - argh... oh my dog... don't mind me muttering, eh? Earlier today (May 5th, 2020), I forget thee exact hour found me utterly beside mice elf, matter of fact even at this moment, yours tru......

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...Rejection a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Your beauty from your heart has so erased Pity, that it's useless to complain; For Pride now holds ......

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...Yosa Buson haiku translations On the temple’s great bronze gong a butterfly snoozes. ?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Hard to describe: this light sensation......

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...Les Bijoux (The Jewels) by Charles Baudelaire loose translation by Michael R. Burch My lover nude and knowing my heart's whims Wore nothing more than a few bright-flashing gems; Her art was sa......

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...Courtesans and concubines pristine ladies on neon signs performing with pink panache indulging in pleasures of the flesh a rose-scented soft temptation invoking desires and infatuation crimson ......

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...POLLY WANT A CRACKER?? …and so they play political musical chairs uncostumed clowns scampering about like children, pushing and shoving accusing all of acting like them. Passing electronic......

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...The lament of an evil man on the eve of death: “It is twilight in paradise And the end of my idle life Of lavish pleasure is nigh. My dreams benighted, Crumbling before my eyes, I sorely ......

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...In the gilded halls of the lush royal palace, Portraits and busts of illustrious men, Adorn the gardens and marble fireplaces, But those of their wisdom no longer reign. Withered are the foundi......

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...The Land Of Royal Monarchs from the plains we see the land of royal monarchs perched on a hilltop its architecture draws us to the heritage of the blue blooded secret lives of kings......

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