Juno
crowned queen of the gods
saturn and jupiter loom
large in her orbit
known for her protective role
mars bows to her motherly grace
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Categories:
juno, myth, planet,
Form: Tanka
Juno
powerful juno
roman queen of strong women
your song we still sing
as we escape twinned clutches
of crushing weeds to flower
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Categories:
juno, appreciation, strength, women,
Form: Tanka
Juno
Juno has dropped her Jupe for Janus—
Moves unforeseen by Nostradamus.
Jupiter's lightning rage
Rattled Juno's last cage,
But Janus is twice as dangerous.
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Categories:
juno, break up, humor, mythology,
Form: Limerick
Juno Capitolina
Just ‘jealous’ doesn’t do her justice, since
unless you factor-in her womanhood,
no vestige of the passion in her blood
or motivation comes across: her prince
conceived real circumspection. He’d convince
alumni, friends and allies that they should
placate her: Juno wasn’t wholly good,
in Miller’s words, a phrase which wins the quince,
the prize for sweetness, but wholly herself.
Our modern model argues
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Categories:
juno, mythology,
Form: Sonnet
Juno doesn't like my wheel
Juno doesn’t like my wheel;
not sure I comprehend the deal.
She greets me when I walk on by,
but on the wheel I think I’d die
if only for that flimsy fence;
it really doesn’t make much sense.
The wheel invokes her sense of chase
and I would surely lose that race.
No, Juno doesn’t like my wheel,
and I’d not like to
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Categories:
juno, dog, scary,
Form: Rhyme
THE EVER DWINDLING FEW
THE EVER DWINDLING FEW
At Juno Beach
At Juno Beach an old man stands and limps down to the shore,
Where on this sand he crawled and ran so many years before.
The skirl of pipes still in the air, the ceremony o'er,
He knows the ghosts who haunt this coast in
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Categories:
juno, conflict, courage, fear, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Juno
Juno's part Akbash, part Caucasian shepherd.
A beast of a dog, as fierce as a leopard;
Around all the children, she's eager but sweet.
As big as a barn and as tall as a horse,
A mane of white hair that is matted and coarse.
Woe to the coyote she happens to meet!
At barely a year old, she's just a
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Categories:
juno, dog,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Goodbye By Byron Juno
My way is not that far
my path is not that black tar
my bicycle is deflated
but your heart is inflated
i go in peace and war the way i came
all i see in my eye is a blank game
your yellow pale face
turning shifts like a phase
the crescent waits for me
as the horizon sinks deep in the tree
roses
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Categories:
juno, 7th grade, betrayal, break
Form: Rhyme
Juno, the Rescue Dog
An old tennis ball
near your resting head
waits patiently for a sign, biding its time.
Sunday’s sleek playground rocket
is Monday's slumbering sentry
dog-tired from yesterday’s triumphs.
Rescue dogs rummaged
Trade Center rubble undaunted by danger
Nine-Eleven just another reason to please,
and a pound's little penitent
cramped in a Salt Lake City kennelbox
waited patiently for a sign, biding her time
to save a family,
to
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Categories:
juno, pets
Form: Free verse
Juno
when she leaves the room
walking slowly
he follows just behind
ready to take a fall
just guarding
he knows to grab her socks from the drawer
he can pull it open
put he watches to see if she needs help
breathless sometimes
he'll let her sit on the garden wall
for a moment
then he brings the ball
get up get up
he knows she needs to
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Categories:
juno, animals
Form: Free verse
On Juno Ranch, a Cowboy's Day
If you'd have lived and worked on Juno Ranch, you’d have come away better for it. It
may not have seemed like it at the time but Pancho (Uncle Frank) would put it to you, an’ it
was for you to decide to do it, what to do with it, or to fight. The motto
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Categories:
juno, cowboy-western, inspirational, life, on
Form: Cowboy Poetry