Maenads Poems - Poems about Maenads

...These are nature poems about unusual plants like the moonflower and agave. Moonflower by Michael R. Burch after Robert Hayden Marveling, we at last beheld the achieved flower— both aw......

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...Sonnets LII-LX The Endeavors of Lips by Michael R. Burch How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak in love’s strangely lit beds, where th......

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... "Invisible" Trapped within 4 Walls A ghost escapes it's prison through unlocked door beyond freefall a bird now soars The ......

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...A Vain Word by Michael R. Burch Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls under m......

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...To Flower by Michael R. Burch When Pentheus ["grief'] went into the mountains in the garb of the baccae, his mother [Agave] and the other maenads, possessed by Dionysus, tore him apart (Euripide......

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...Hymn to Pan Before Morocco was Roman, you see, the music of Pan was African jazz. At the Wednesday night prayer meeting the percussion discussion of Mingus goes on, getting' all jumpy and sw......

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...When drifting water of the river Hebrus murmurs a heartrending cry surges from the bottom of the river, and when this cry reaches the midsummer night’s sky the stars echo and a lyre in the const......

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...Tanka/ Haiku Dionysian’s Drunken Roman Bacchante (1) footnotes God of the Maenads' (2) Female appreciation Tainted murderous servants Maniacal twist Hold each- a sensuous kiss Trained not by hub......

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