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Sappho Translations
Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch 

A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!

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Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch 

She keeps her scents
in a dressing-case.
And her sense?
In some undiscoverable...

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Categories: horsemen, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form: Epigram



Premium Member Tapora
Like Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed 
   the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills) 
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
   From out of the Valley of Mizpah 
to...

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Categories: horsemen, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Chrysanthemum Throne
In the ancient Empire of the Chrysanthemum Throne, horsemen riders from the southern regions, their steel swords close to their sides, clang heavily to their waist as they ride hard to the capital. Before their...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horsemen, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Light of Reckoning -2
The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in place of gold I presented the poor
I told the onery...

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Categories: horsemen, creation,
Form: Epic
Premium Member PS Atheists Get Your Own Dirt


Part I

Rock n Roll came through the slave trade
The Hippies and Moonies said “We’ve got it made”
“Rock n Roll sounds came from the jungle” [Lennon said]
The blues helped through the struggle
The rhythm and the movements...

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Categories: horsemen, conflict, culture, history, philosophy, society, visionary,
Form: Epic



The Edges of Rhyme
The Edges of Rhyme 

I wrote the playbook, watching what they took 
While the earth shook I could not look 
In the direction of the Big Book 
Like a fish caught on a nasty hook...

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Categories: horsemen, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Mongolophobia and the Eastern Horde
Neither a fable, 
Nor a tale, 
This is a fact,
A story to tell,
To everyone, female and male.
To generations, younger and frail.

About a threat, a monster from the East,
That struck the world like a beast,
Attacked Europe...

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Categories: horsemen, christian, conflict, culture, fear, history, violence, war,
Form: Rhyme
1000707 and 1006006 Are Having a Chat
A miniscule minotaur is a mini mayhem by the way. In a catacomb place ones feet in a small bowl then look in the mirror and sing to the shaft of light beaming down from...

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Categories: horsemen, aubade, beauty,
Form: I do not know?
Armegeddon Prayer
Have you ever found yourself stranded in the tract
between what you think is fiction and what you think is fact?
And whipped so hard with the bible belt, your minds a welt of doubt
throbbing in confusion...

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Categories: horsemen, religious,
Form: Couplet
And I Was Caught Up In the Spirit
.... And I was walking in a field of golden wheat and just then, 
I was caught up in the spirit, that is the holy ghost of God,
and it carried me through the clouds, up...

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Categories: horsemen, bible, faith, god, religion,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Four
Like an allspice incensed quartet chorus,
the spirit of the living Word unveils before us.
Holy foundational page corners turn
in cardinal winds as red letters churn,

proclaiming the Gospel to each earthly corner,
through bolted borders, even reaching the...

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Categories: horsemen, bible, creation, deep, earth, music, spiritual, wind,
Form: Rhyme
My Clone Got No Soul
My Clone Got No Soul

My clone, it seems, came out with no soul,
I guess it got lost, in the petri dish bowl.
In the mirror, a face like me would come through,
But that’s where it ended,
He...

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Categories: horsemen, god, humorous, introspection, philosophy, religion, social, spiritual,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Fairy Tale
In a land, far away, once upon a time
An ancient place, deep in mystical forests
There lived a sickly old man
The years had passed and he was but an empty shell

Even he had no memories of...

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Categories: horsemen, adventure, angel, beautiful, sad, children, old, angel,
Form: Light Verse
Mining Meteors


(With Wormwood Dreams)
The fire and ice, heaven and hell equinox calibration of scales, scorched Earth
beneath a sky of epic fail of primary colors in triple beam, sale, cine-scene-
totem of hierarchial Archangels of Destruction of Kingdom...

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Categories: horsemen, art,
Form: Free verse
Places
I wish I could go back there again to capture the essence of the time recapturing every word you speak and recalling the stillness in deep. 

I wish I could go back there again just...

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Categories: horsemen, appreciation, books, business, destiny, earth, education, sunshine,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Canto Xxii Hell Translation Part 1
Horsemen moving camp I already saw ,
And storming to show themselves then to start,
And too sometimes for escape  withdraw;

Fast runners I saw in your land depart,
Oh Aretines, and gatherers to go,
Tournaments fight and also...

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Categories: horsemen, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member To Those Who Wrote the Prose
There’s a universe in my library
Where I often rest within,
Beginning with cosmology 
Where the mystery of life begins...

In space and time in books you’ll find  
On a shelf upon a wall,
Near biology and chemistry...

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Categories: horsemen, culture, education, evil, faith, god, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Way Ticket To Midnight, Lyrics
Ah — ahh — aaah — aaahh...
Ah — ahh... ah — ahhh...
Aaah — aaah — ahh — ahhh...
Ahhh — ahhh — ahhh — ahhh...

Let the final countdown begin
Proxy war in Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia vs. Iran 
India...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horsemen, betrayal, conflict, dark, death, good night, mythology,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Three Blind Mice On Duty
When I was only two bricks and a ticky high I wrote my first ever treatise

Three blind mice unbeknown to me highly philosophical not just to please

The Gods of poetry duty bound on their quest...

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Categories: horsemen, growth,
Form: Rhyme
The Train With Wings
The train sits on the track covered in a splendid  frock; the seats are adorned with golden sashes and a sweet aroma splashed all over the passage, it’s  getting ready to go on...

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Categories: horsemen, addiction, america, art, beauty, best friend, business,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Darfurian Girl
I enjoyed an almost idyllic childhood. This was marred only at the age of ten by my circumcision, a cruel and primitive custom among my otherwise enlightened people. In my grandmother’s hut, I was held...

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Categories: horsemen, bereavement, character,
Form: Prose
Revelation 3:12 I Am Coming Soon Part Two
Revelation 3:12 
I will write on him, the name of my God, the New Jerusalem,
which is coming down out of  heaven; from my God, and I
will write on him my new name. 

The seventh...

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Categories: horsemen, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tears of Jerusalem
Mighty oars to take us away from our shores
Our horsemen marshal their men at arms
The trek is long, battles of the blood-soaked 
Our swords we hold high
Above our heads, the cross guides us to righteousness
For...

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Categories: horsemen, adventure, history, religion,
Form: Light Verse
Here I am Send me Isaiah 6:8 part sixteen NIV
The song and dance of Miriam and the women
Exodus 15:19  

When Pharaoh's horses, chariots and horsemen went into the sea (Red Sea),
the LORD brought back the waters of the sea back over them, but...

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Categories: horsemen, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Prose
It is already much latter than we think it is part six Q and A
Q:  What did some contemporary prophets see in their visions and dreams?

A:  Enemy drones, planes and paratroopers, tanks and soldiers most often
     in New York City.  They have...

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Categories: horsemen, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Prose

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