Hesperus Poems - Poems about Hesperus

...I remember reading a short story by Hitchcock. Three friends walk and converse as they make their trek home from work. Huddled in mind, independently fearless, the cold air or hot night baring their......

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...Sappho Translations XIII by Michael R. Burch In these translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if they are used i......

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...Sappho Translations V by Michael R. Burch Sappho, fragment 23 translation by Michael R. Burch I long helplessly for love. Gazing into your eyes not even Hermione compares. Who is your equa......

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...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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... "Titan and the Night Tears of Eos" Another world calls dreams in the in-between place before all where the night tears of Eos never fall unified consort Astr......

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...Whispering wings ~ feathers afloat, Molting and marvelous, magnanimous Wonders, alighting in familiar places. ~ Each feather remembers the warmth, The pear-shaped cra......

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...A red cloak covers the sky a beautiful and somber numbing color... Is the dark reddish solitude of the afternoon... Offers us a show at the same time of fear and ecstasy of wonder... ! The fiery......

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...The brilliant night is rich with hopeful stars And I, alone, can see them, feel their joy As I stand on the balcony and Mars Recedes and Venus forges an alloy Of Mercury and Saturn, both asleep. ......

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...( In honor of my historical neighbor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose family's summer home is about a mile from where I live ) ~ The captain s......

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...Written for the contest “SOMETHING OLD SOMETHING NEW.” My original poem was written in 2017 as an epithalamium. The edit for John Lawless’ contest has become a rhyme. SOMETHING OLD SO......

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...By train, plane, by wings, I hear the angels sing. Their featherbell sleeves, golden flutterbies weave in mind-blowing confection. I remember the affection for long distance kin and kith ......

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...HESPERUS' NIGHTMARE "For thirty-three years I have served in the Legislature. Every now and then, you simply give the citizens what they want." - Representative Steve Holland, D-Plantersville......

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...Bedeviled by the world so brutal He still bring – off with a grin Baseless towards one among the nation Still the only one to conform every time of year - Once in a blue moon One will surely in......

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...Magenta thatched magic Lantern ravine sugar plum shadows haunting the stream perplexing the galaxy a siege of illusions a serpentine rhapsody leads to conclusions Follow the lodestar Hes......

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