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Dionysian Poems - Poems about Dionysian

Limbic Liminality

...Limbic Liminality: 
Souls expand 
Like bones crack 
Thunder through the circuitry 
My mind 
Pine needles aflame 
Death rolling circles through life 
Some strange dimension in an eye-lash 
Kil...
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Categories: dionysian, deep, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Drinking Song

...I am being born 
again 
and again 
From above
Not from the will of men 

And in these births is one aching desire
to connect with you
my sister, my bride
I'll never have another Lover
I've ...
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Categories: dionysian, deep, humanity, innocence, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Wild Birds of Lust

...Apollonian days, Dionysian nights, 
Over the favors of females, they fight. 
Estrogen’s wiles avoid testosterone’s might, 
Until the wild birds of lust take flight.
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Categories: dionysian, lust, youth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberParty Crasher

...My Halloween party was in full swing. I had gone all out this year and rented an old crumbling, reputed-to-be haunted mansion for the evening's Dionysian festivities, and all the invited guests were ...
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Categories: dionysian, halloween,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberTiger

...courage in cat form
strolls solemn serene stately---
Dionysian pet


11 April 2022...
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Categories: dionysian, tiger,
Form: Haiku



Premium MemberThe Conversion In Rio

...The East Meets West Philosophy Association
had their annual 2020 conference in Rio,
when and where anything multiculturally lusty
is more likely to happen,
especially between sunset
and sunrise....
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Categories: dionysian, green, health, humor, passion,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberVirgin Spring

...We each have that early spring
post-matriarchal
un-hibernating 
emerging from EarthMother moment,

An awareness memory
of late winter's pregnant demands
to cramp and thrust forward
patriarcha...
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Categories: dionysian, dream, earth day, health,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYang-Yin Rejoined

...If you are a Zen Buddhist
a Taoist,
where past wealthy resonance
interdependently governs global developing history
with resilient future health projections,

If you are a Zeroist,
or an in-be...
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Categories: dionysian, community, destiny, green, health,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberTranslation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 1 With Commentary By T Wignesan

... Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 1 by T. Wignesan

                                               For Barry MacSweeney
(GENERA editions by Colin Simms, issue 13 - Kent Winter...
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Categories: dionysian, addiction, america, freedom, political,
Form: Free verse

In Dionysian Sacrifice

...I wish to write another song
to show my soul some dignity
which trodden was for ages long
by demons of antipathy
that all its joy 'pends not on queens
but on the mind that shapes machines
which...
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Categories: dionysian, philosophy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Dominica

...Dominica
Gawaine Caldwater Ross

We share melons and papayas
beneath a sun benevolent.
A salty breeze, the river is cool,
and the passion flower blossoms
are fragile but rich. We stroke
their...
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Categories: dionysian, romance,
Form: Blank verse

Westerly Far Birds

...Let us take you up then
Where litanies of darkness mount the sun
Rest us on the magic night, bleakest evil oars
Arid pair of sleepy rebels float, limbs and root
Pretending what we are, reversed d...
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Categories: dionysian, senses,
Form: Blank verse

Your Beautiful Lethal Life

...Shooting star
With a quicksilver mind, 
You deserve to go so far,
Can't someone stop you
Before you ruin your soul
With irreversible harm?
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Categories: dionysian, addiction, beautiful, dance, death,
Form: Free verse

Lone Birthday Boy Dancing

...Yesterday for my birthday,
I started off
with a bottle of wine...
I took the train
into town...
I had half a bitter
at the Cafe de Piaf
in Waterloo...
I went to work
for a couple of hours or...
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Categories: dionysian, addiction, birthday, dance, dark,
Form: Free verse

Life Worth Living

...chipping and hacking
sawing and sanding 
this is the life of a creator 
these are his sounds
a cacophony of hustle and bustle 
a primal link to the past and an eye on the future
ever striving f...
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Categories: dionysian, art,
Form: Free verse

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