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Hera Poems - Poems about Hera

Premium MemberIn Stars Above

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What I see in stars above is extremely wearisome,
with useless inane details that I wish I never knew.
Light years, space-time, black holes, big bangs, 
myriads of pricks 'n specks a billion mil...
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Categories: hera, joy, stars,
Form: Free verse

THE PRISMATIC SELF

...Contest : The Prismatic Self
Sponsor : Daniel Henry Rodgers
Date submitted : 19/5/25

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“Contests around track, contests for followers,
for best tasting wine, most exquisite 
a...
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Categories: hera, age, character, courage, destiny,
Form: Bio



Premium MemberThe Pattern of Stars, one and all

...Like snowflakes, no two stars are alike,
despite their myriad declension,
to minuscule pin-pricks in sky above.
Unlike the sameness of sand-grains 
scattered willy-nilly on a beach,
that no one ...
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Categories: hera, space, stars,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberConversations at the Areopagus

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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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Categories: hera, atheist, bible, jesus, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Verse

NOSSIS ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

...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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Categories: hera, beautiful, body, dance, heaven,
Form: Epigram



Sappho Translations XI

...Sappho Translations XI by Michael R. Burch


Sappho, fragment 92
translation by Michael R. Burch

“Sappho, if you don’t leave your room,
I swear I’ll never love you again!
Get out of bed, ris...
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Categories: hera, beauty, clothes, flower, god,
Form: Free verse

Sappho Translations IX

...Sappho Translations IX


Sappho, fragment 17
translation by Michael R. Burch

Hear me, Queen Hera, as your delightful festival nears,
you to whom the sons of Atreus performed vows,
those dazz...
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Categories: hera, god, heart, men, prayer,
Form: Free verse

Sappho Translations IV

...Sappho Translations IV by Michael R. Burch

Sappho, fragment 133
translation by Michael R. Burch

Blushing bride, brimful of rose-petaled love,
brightest jewel of the Goddess of Paphos,
come t...
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Categories: hera, friend, joy, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse

Ursa Major

...Ursula, oh Ursula

As constellations go

Ursa Major in the sky

Forever do you glow.

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Onto a world you gaze upon

Your perch upon a star

Lovingly you're watch...
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Categories: hera, appreciation, longing, space,
Form: Rhyme

Please Michelle Obama

...Please Michelle Obama...
can you save American democracy?

I highly hugely grant 
Barack Hussein belated kudos
what with his wizardesses 
in tow wrought wonders 
to one nation analogous 
whil...
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Categories: hera, 12th grade, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSong of The Peacock Butterfly No 6: AABB

...Assures their breed a place among unknowns,
lest Europe and Asia part of their realms.
Peacock Butterfly, hues-full Inachis,
their uppermost topsides reveal truth bids,
yet undersides are black-l...
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Categories: hera, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Odyssey of Hope

...Homer in his prime knew what was divine he sets out to woo the earth but his ambition was crumbed in the dirt, the Trojan War is an epic of past, love, power, hate, marriage, and crime; the Greeks an...
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Categories: hera, absence, change, city, desire,
Form: Narrative

her eyes are gray, foreboding

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her eyes are gray, foreboding
reflecting the wrath of Zeus
yet therein lies the charm of Hera
who silences Olympian thunderbolts
she is sharing a tenebrous introspect
the smile withdrawn, judg...
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Categories: hera, addiction, analogy, blessing, courage,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberQueen

...“Several Queens in  mythology, history, nature , games are recognised as special since  ancient Era and has become famous gaining popularity.” - Poet.


    QUEEN

     So many Queens attracted ...
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Categories: hera, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: List

Premium MemberZeus King of Greek Gods

...Aphrodite was fuming, did not want to attend Olympus Twelve today.
heard that her arch enemies Athena and Hera were coming their way.
these goddess hussies had started the Trojan war, had they not?...
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Categories: hera, mythology,
Form: Rhyme

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