Geoffrey Chaucer translations 1 by Michael R Burch
...These are modern English translations of love poems by Geoffrey Chaucer. These are poems of love, longing, passion and desire.
To Rosemounde: A Ballade
by Geoffrey Chaucer
translation by Michael...
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Categories:
lucretia, beauty, dance, desire, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Marjorie Taylor Greene
...Marjorie Taylor Greene
Congressperson who loves to preen
From Northern Georgia
A notorious reputation like Lucretia Borgia
FIRST PLACE WINNER
written June 28, 2021
exclusively for "A Brian St...
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Categories:
lucretia, people, political,
Form: Clerihew
Forgotten Feminist
...Lucretia Mott
The meeker sex, she was not!
At the convention in Seneca Falls
Showed men aren't the only ones with balls!
1/26/19
For Educate Me with Humor contest
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich...
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Categories:
lucretia, appreciation, women,
Form: Clerihew
Meaningless Verses
...She was as radiant as the sun
Her skin shone like the moon
Like flowers blossom in June
Far back in time
I could remember
From January and down to December
We boasted about the virtues of our w...
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Categories:
lucretia, inspirational, mentor,
Form: Ballad
The Rape of Lucretia
...She lay quietly musing
onStreams of suitors.
Chaste damsel she was,
Till men of the under-
World broke-in in
Numbers,carried her to
Another world,under
theStars,de-flowered her,
Men with...
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Categories:
lucretia, africa,
Form: Personification
Autumn Colors
...orange, red and gold
brush strokes of brisk swirling winds
autumn’s artistry
Sponsor: Russell Sivey
Contest Name: Autumn, Fall Colors (poem must be named "Autumn Colors") ...
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Categories:
lucretia, nature, seasons,
Form: Haiku
A Garden of Hope
...When compassion touches
lonely hearts, seeds of hope grow.
Sadness withers, as
flowers of love flourish.
© Lucretia Crouse 2012
Naani means an expression of one...
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Categories:
lucretia, hope, inspirational, love,
Form: Verse
On Cliff's Edge
...upon the cliffs I tarry ~ still
as sunset bids adieu to day
I feel so cold, a deadly chill
upon the cliffs I tarry ~ still
so desolate, bereft of will
with trepidation, feet of clay...
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Categories:
lucretia, death, sad, sea, pain,
Form: Triolet
It Happened To Lucretia
...He violently did penetrate, that part of her
That had been until now,
Hers alone to contemplate.
His objective was to plough
And sow his seed and seal her fate.
She could not disallow.
And oh ...
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Categories:
lucretia, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Lucretia Kiss
...Bite this flesh of yellow burnish,
Suck deep of citrus and see, if
The beauty of the textured surface
Can be endured in reality.
Screwed up eyes and peeling lips,
The tremored hiss of breath, in...
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Categories:
lucretia, life, love, passion, beauty,
Form: Verse