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Retribution
In sandy Egypt lived three men
In ancient days when pharaohs reigned
The kingdom of the pyramids,
Osiris and that Isis’ den,
Whom everyone worships and heeds,
Or at least doing so they feigned,
And those gods too blessed them and...

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Categories: osiris, sin,
Form: Rhyme



She Believes In Lavender Moons
Introduction: one of the nice aspects of having an oeuvre as a poet is the ability to see where you have changed over the years. this is such a poem where i can see the...

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Categories: osiris, faith, growth, myth,
Form: Free verse
Perpetual Quandries of Dischord
Perpetual Quandries of Dischord

Permanent irreversible Attatchment disorder
A lemonade stand at the Mexican Border
A traumatised disorganised old lady hoarder
The incriminating evidence on an old tape recorder 

Elements of discontent shivering through a crowd 
Firmaments of promises...

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Categories: osiris, international,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gods Like Men
“Gods Like Men”



you the small men 
who war like gods

mystery that never was
in a likeness formed

through the mirrors
of the soul of God

a darkness
and a light 

the next star rising
after Sunset comes the Morning

you the small...

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Categories: osiris, dark, light, star,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why What Reason Have I
Often times I wonder if I may have missed 
a greater calling or purpose in my life.
As a young man I was frivolous and non-sensical
when it came to asking the most important questions:
“Why am I...

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Categories: osiris, allusion, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Hellboy's Fight Record
Hellboy danced with the best of them,
With a record here, though incomplete...
Winning almost all of the time,
What a miraculous feat!


Date Opponent Location Result
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XXxX Hecate L (fatality)
2004 Rasputin W
XXxX osiris club W
XXxX Witch L (fatality)
XXxX Dragon...

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Categories: osiris, appreciation,
Form: List
Premium Member Memphis Belle
I recall the day she journeyed to the delta from her village above the first cataphract with a New Kingdom attitude and an Old Kingdom strut, inspiring rumors to be passed from shadoof to shadoof...

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Categories: osiris, allegory,
Form: Blank verse
The Trials of Meretrix Canto Vii
My Lords an adjournment is 
Called for...
All my retire;
But holding foremost in your
Thoughts,
I beseech ye,
Thee impudent countenance of
This most ardent denier.
Therefore heed me,
I caution all ye present,
Thou shall not disband;
Moreover, to reassemble at any
Sudden instance...

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Categories: osiris, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
To My Love Part 5 Tbc
As the odyssey in the skiff continued a more sentient being begun to appear,
At times feeling as a eunuch who was unable to change anything,
In zenith of toxicity as miasma on a cold misty morning.
What...

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Categories: osiris, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ggantija
Ggantija (Maltese "Giantess") 
The Neolithic era (c. 3600–2500 BC)
On the Mediterranean island of Gozo 
Older than the pyramids of Egypt. 
Malta’s Gigantea one of UNESCO World Heritage Site, 
The Megalithic Temples of Malta
Erected the two...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: osiris, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Phantom Rising
Dear Satan,
You are a formidable foe, I grant you,
For you confuse the Body of Christ, my Body into hating itself, reified and 
fractured into tormented factions on my cross,
For you confuse my Children into doubting...

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Categories: osiris, inspirational, body, moon,
Form: Blank verse
Ever Returning/Departing
I reached into the depth...
But could not withdraw  Excalibur from the stone.
Yet I knew I was the one.
Why else my 'Grail Vision' in the sun?
The depths call me to reach further still.
And Mary's eyes...

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© C Sowder  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: osiris, faith, father, peace, me, me, men,
Form: Free verse
The Pride of Kings
Let not the pain of death enter my body
I the Pharaoh, son of the gods
Here my wife, who is the daughter of the Nile
The daughter of Isis sits beside my throne,
Is she not beautiful?

I live...

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Categories: osiris, daughter, death, heart, light, love, me, religion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Exalted One
The flood waters had drawn back
Land made its debut
The past gone and over
With nothing but hope in view

Hard work and labor ahead
Building and creating...what
Grown minds can't forget experience
No matter how one sought

...to begin again

After a...

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Categories: osiris, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memories of Egypt
I miss her, Mother Egypt
and those friends I left behind,
timeless history, marvels and mysteries
etched in stone by her own scribes.

Longing for the waters of the nourishing
River Nile and surrounding seas,
the laughter and smiles of everyone
who...

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Categories: osiris, allegory, allusion, christian, islamic, jesus, jewish, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nearer My God to Thee, Be A Cross That Raises Me
The hour matters none ... for the energies have exhausted.
In the year of our Lord ... nineteen hundred and twelve, April fifteenth.
Writes a future living star ... wish their joys so he may shine.

'Tis to...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: osiris, anxiety, courage, death, emotions, fate, fear, voyage,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Isis and Oris
The slave kneels in reverence temple in Karnak's hollowed halls.
A prayers silent whisper echo's against stone walls.
Rituals divine figure, a golden idle lies before honor's altar
Mother earth's first born child, she whom is known as...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: osiris, adventure, imagery, imagination, inspirational, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Osiris
To the end, the Home will uproot itself in nomadic urge -
The Flesh will ache to lift as paper from its delicate strands 
 with their reddy pulse, to float off as the slip of...

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Categories: osiris, birth, growth, imagery, life, senses, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Most Famous Man Who Ever Lived
“the most famous man who ever lived”

hollow is the story of “jesus”---
hollow 
like the stamp with which it was printed,
hollow as these other mythical hero 
archetypes,
which all bear a supernatural birth,
which all bear the hunting...

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Categories: osiris, life, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Haughty Hankerings - the Hubris and Hollowness of Hieroglyphs and Holograms
As Pharoah thought
Deep thoughts on Thoth,
He became serious
And thought of Osiris.

What of Seth?
What do Anubis and Horus sayeth?
Of Amun and Mut,
And panoplied Nut?

It may take me forever
Mused the Pharoah -
To invent the Alphabet
To honour me...

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Categories: osiris, fantasy, fun, humanity, metaphor, pride, satire, vanity,
Form: Verse
An Egyptian Saga
The civilization of Egypt is a mystery,
But what I love the most is their incredible history,
It starts with Amun Ra, the god of sun;
Who was Khepri in the morning when he rolled in mud and...

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Categories: osiris, god,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Mummy
In the city of the dead, underneath the whispering sands,
Lies a curse written in blood's script.
Beware defilers, for death's vengeance, guards
This sacred tomb.
Beneath wrappings decayed flesh and twisted
 Mangled bones,
A forsaken spirit, has been entombed...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: osiris, halloween, history, holiday, horror, imagery, international, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gods' Family Tree
An Egyptian I never could be,
but since reading of their history,
in limerick form
I now write to inform
my friends of the Gods’ family tree.

From “Waters of Chaos” came Nun,
the only God under the sun.
The first piece...

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Categories: osiris, history, son, god, earth, god, son,
Form: Limerick
I Am Monster Spoken Word Poem
I am monster
the Osiris of lost souls
lurking in the moonlit shadows
I am Frankenstein unbound
among hungry crows and grackles
I creep over the scared ground
of good and evil...

Where lies my monster bride?
I am kneeling and wailing
for her...

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Categories: osiris, dark, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
What We Do
THE REVOLUTION IN ONLY 2 DIGITS

Home again.

Thomas, you were wrong to doubt it: 
You Can Go Home Again and
Bask in the healing sun of Osiris

This isn’t home 
This is recovery.
From the fevered scurvy of my...

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Categories: osiris, howl, political, world,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs