Distaff Poems - Poems about Distaff

...ave read her, as second only to Sappho among the ancient Greek female poets. Little is known about her life; Erinna has been called a contemporary of Sappho and her most gifted student, but she may have lived up to a few hundred years later. Excerpts from "Distaff" by Erinna loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch … the moon rising … … leaves falling … … waves lapping a windswept shore … … and our childish games,......

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... Written: June 02, 2024 For Regina McIntoch Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Discovering God doesn't bear broad browsing He's all over on Earth's orbit or ......

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... Like an avian roosting when his cawing has spilled, I mourn in grief as this shadowed night grows cold Crushed and grieving from promises unfulfilled Sorrow burgeons my heart, in bitterness ......

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...Men: A Wife of Noble Character Proverbs 12:4 A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown. United as one, a vow husband and wife, declare to the town. And to her, a ......

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...The lone wolf was in a grouchy, grumpy, hungry mood Snow rabbits were much faster than he remembered He studied their hop slides in the frosty snow These rabbit's foot marks were diminishing as he......

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...The Virginia Hermaphrodite (Bennet’s Farm, Jamestowne, 1629) Your Honors, Gentlemen of the Council, Ask me– how it is that I am brought here? Stepping out of church, bothering no one, I was of......

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...VIII In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves, Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate"; And guileful Cassandra, she laid her two murdered ......

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...There once was a small young man from Flagstaff Whose girl said he was too short by one half. He devised plan giving others great laugh For with big grin His stilts did win The hand of......

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...It’s deeper than words, for she arose more glorious -n- prettier than any earthly rose, 4 I lay with inside her pink abode, it’s deeper than life, -n- more intricate than when day meets night, she re......

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...MORE THAN A WOMAN She selects wool and flax And works with earge hands, She is like the merchant ships Bringing her food from afar. She gets up while it is still dark; She provides food for h......

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...That composition's dispose of consent so validation's placement of content the turf of undeniable distaff ~ complacency ~ that nothing's turning . . . flat! What time be errant, as a scoffing's......

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...The man who spurned two love-wrought snakes In reptilian copulation The blind seer, auspicious he And his clairvoyant recitation. Born a male and died a man But for committing ......

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...Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take ..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)* In homage - dedicated to the Chair Professor of Compar......

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...Whomever a woman chooses is the king. No table round will ever square the thing. All knights have equal access to the bread, Even the stout are adequately fed; Each squire gets equal pay for equal kn......

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...The flames in the pit peter out compared with true distaff disdain......

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