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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: mixed up, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form: Epigram



Premium Member Mary Ma Gargano Boys
Mary Gargano the key player in covering the drug monies and drugs that ran from Milwaukee pitstop in Chicago Antioch Danville Marietta Georgia straight to palm beach blvd. Ciro Gargano his business partner Hayes stopping...

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Categories: mixed up, allah,
Form: Manqabat
Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...

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Categories: mixed up, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form: Free verse
The Adverse World
I sing my songs with rageful joy in mind,
Forgetting the past struggles, aches and sorrows
That intertwine with my mind’s eye, leaving all of me behind
Forgiving others of their wrongs for better tomorrows

You know who comforts...

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Categories: mixed up, angst, emotions, endurance, feelings, pain, passion, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Glimpse into The Future
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, science...

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Categories: mixed up, death, fantasy, future,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Depression Or Anxiety
(Seems that these days a whole lot of people suffer from anxiety and depression. Now whether that's a reflection on our world and society, whether there's actually greater incidence of it or if we just...

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© Uwe Stroh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mixed up, absence, angst, depression, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Friday May 13th 2022
Friday May 13th, 2022

An excerpt taken from a lengthy tome,
written courtesy a favorite poet of mine.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia  struck within a blink,
I swear yours truly never took a drink,
nevertheless he witnessed
and falsely accused of being a...

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Categories: mixed up, atheist, dark, destiny, gothic, history, husband, may,
Form: Free verse
Figuring Out
Warped up lies
Illuminated goodbyes
The reason I hear his cries
Hopefulness and its highs
Amid the optimism, hidden inside
Utopia and its understanding lifts me higher than high itself and ultimately wins the window of my heart's mind
Tribulation and...

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Categories: mixed up, confusion, hope, joy, lonely, longing, peace, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Supper At the Causeway
East west north or south which way should I go?
East West north or south, I just want to sing and shout
We have just had a nice little shower,
To cool down the boiling temperature, 
but it...

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Categories: mixed up, appreciation, business, fish, food, good friday, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Theatre of the Absurd - Fusion
Godot has arrived
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Alive and well thanks!

...said the haiku poster
Crudely pasted to the fence
Who was too busy selling stolen goods
To notice he was a notice
Announcing a brand new play
A fusion of two classics

Waiting for...

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Categories: mixed up, funny, humor, humorous, nonsense, silly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Seance


“The Seance” 

It was macabre you see,
we were all summoned,
and therefore found ourselves
in the front parlour of Ballylee;

In our dreams
we thought we were poets
of fabulous notoreity, 
the head ghoul set us straight on that.

The planchette...

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Categories: mixed up, muse,
Form: Narrative
A Darzet Countree Lad Be Oi
Oi be nowt but an auld country hick,
we a liddle bit of gall, an a lotta stick.
Oi baint niver afeared to speak me mind,
nor critizise folks harshly iffen Oi find
zummit I don’t loik.  Tis...

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Categories: mixed up, immigration, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Onions
The old church lay in ruins, left to languish in time.
He was sitting on the grave talking to Sergeant R Johnston.
Well, I suppose you want an update on the war.
Let me see now, where do...

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© Paul Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mixed up, death, humor, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Shimmer of the Sound, Run Aground a song
Song lyrics with Poem pieced in. © Artimus The Poet Susan Manley 11-24-2024 All Rights Reserved #Sunomusic #ArtimusThePoet

[Musical Introduction]

[Verse]
It came to me in waves...
and over the days...
to join in this song...
the sway of the sea...

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Categories: mixed up, beach, Lullaby, music, poetry, sea,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Tigerilla
CHAPTER ONE

They closed the county zoo for it was sick financially
They thought they’d take the creatures to their homes across the sea
The Silverback Gorilla soon in Africa would be
And then they’d go to Asia where...

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Categories: mixed up, africa, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Mom
Mommy, you are the master of matters that I manufacture
The Queen that queued for nine months to receive me
You are the fleece blanket that warmed my days in the dark
The pillar that strengthen my backbone...

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Categories: mixed up, daughter, dedication, for her, girl, mothers day,
Form: Name
Premium Member The Execution of Paul Carter
My name is Paul Carter and I want to tell you my tragic story
About the wrong path I chose in life, that wasn't one of glory
I was born in the state of Maine in the...

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Categories: mixed up, america, dark, death, drink, drug, god, prison,
Form: Narrative
Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife Trois
Inevitable death defines afterlife - trois

So all I ask, would be
inviting, offering, and ushering me to 
top secret cygnet committee
to give this average sized 
chapped sticky man
spinning the david bowie playlist 
as a somber dee...

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Categories: mixed up, absence, allah, analogy, angel, appreciation, blessing, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rapunzel Really Ruby
A pretty girl in a long ago time, was out in her garden one day when a handsome prince rode by on his big white horse.  She liked horses and was gazing at it...

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Categories: mixed up, beauty, garden,
Form: Prose
Premium Member What Is Love
What Is Love 
   by Edmund Siejka

My parents argued frequently
So love was an elusive something 
Usually found in someone’s else’s home
In high school 
A little more sure of myself
I dated my first girlfriend
In...

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Categories: mixed up, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Playing Make-Believe
I have many happy dreams of my childhood life,
      Mother and father and grandma made it special;
Playing make-believe was something I really loved,
       ...

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Categories: mixed up, childhood, dream, happiness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Director
Looking out through the panes
        of the window of time
     The curtains pulled back
        by a sad...

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Categories: mixed up, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Have Heard
I have heard it said,
Love your neighbor as yourself.

I listen with you
to how our neighbors become part of us
and not,
and how this feels healthy
and not
for you
and my potentially co-empathic neighbors.

I have heard it said,
Better dead...

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Categories: mixed up, courage, culture, hate, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Beware Dragon Eggs
Dragon came into my life as Grandpa Troll, gave me a little egg and praise.
He said that only a special few, could deal with a dragons’ crazy, mixed up ways.
Dragons need a touch, he said,...

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Categories: mixed up, adventure, caregiving, crazy, fantasy, funny, happiness, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Mixed up feelings
,,Why then? Why, explain!
Two days before you were saying again thank you with a high pitched voice after I tried to pay close attention to anything you do so you remember a positive trait!
So we...

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Categories: mixed up, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things