In 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
The 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
Conversations 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
Song 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
Queen
...“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
Zeus 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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