Leda Poems - Poems about Leda

Sappho Translations XIV

...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...

Categories: leda, dream, father, girl, god,
Form: Free verse

Zeus the Philanderer

...A poem based on the Greek pantheon:


Zeus The Philanderer

Zeus the philanderer, lust divine, 
Maidens fair he did entwine, 
By guileful means he won their trust, 
Bastard offspring born fro...

Categories: leda, desire, literature, love, lust,
Form: Verse

Galactic Embrace

...Five hundred twenty million light-years far
from Earth a meld of galaxies has spread
its multi-arms wide open ‘midst the star
Orion cluster in its wedded thread.
With limbs outstretched, in stell...

Categories: leda, appreciation, earth, nature, stars,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Phoebe

...Proud of my red coat, that others admired,
         or was it the charm and wit I had, that they desired?
               I spent my days basking in the noon-day sun;
    you scolded me for stealin...

Categories: leda, dog, life, memory,
Form: Personification

The Pain of Creation

...And I-
Beyond the forest, beyond the mind
Came over-
Kandapara’s field
Before the evening puja
In the journey of this path to eternity.

The thought of ending awoke
Immense pressure of urine ...

Categories: leda, allegory,
Form: Free verse

Under the Balcony

...ugly though not
because of my
nose no i'm not
Cyrano maybe
only with words
to woe my Muse
trying to induce
her to fall

fall in love
with not me
but what's heard
or what words being 
abs...

Categories: leda, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Tango

...tango

I see her sway in a tango 
young lithe 
a brief moment without a care
alone beneath palms of night
far off shore lights answer 
in step 
a dreamy dip and bow 
the sky reflects the glo...

Categories: leda, dance,
Form: Free verse

Pip Pip Hurray

...Sending the tending to an unfriended ending,
 yet somehow suspending from rending a newly offending recommending.
Logotype monotype linotype,
overripe stereotype,
 teletyped an unripe heliotype. ...

Categories: leda,
Form: Verse

Apocalypse

...I see the oven lit from the center of the earth
The heat forcing apart the egg's brittle shell
And into the liquid sea of wrath, like mad birds
Diving for the fish by gravity's default, the crust
In ...

Categories: leda, religion, water, water,
Form: Free verse

Cinemascope

...Hush, the elegant predator
Ripples the shimmering grass
The almighty terminator
Flashes its claw, it's the last
Breath of mole. The furtive prayers
Whimper in the palate rafters.
                  ii...

Categories: leda, animals, faith, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Skipping Record

...I keep coming back
to the root of my problems
like a broken record
skipping on the same track
and I can't move forward until I fix the scratch
Soooo
like a mime in an imaginary glass box
I pee...

Categories: leda, adventure, art, friendship, happiness,
Form: I do not know?