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Menelaus Poems - Poems about Menelaus


Sappho Translations XII
...Sappho Translations XII by Michael R. Burch In the following short translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if th......

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Categories: menelaus, beautiful, beauty, girl, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations III
...Sappho Translations III by Michael R. Burch Bed the bride with the beautiful feet, or bring her to me! —Sappho, fragment 103b, translation by Michael R. Burch I long helplessly for love. Ga......

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Categories: menelaus, beautiful, beauty, desire, earth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Song of The Blue Morpho Butterfly No 9: AABB
...China has two martial arts-styled Mantis, --just a form. A Morphinae enchants us, a mammoth butterfly, a pearlescent spirited blue, bewitching, heaven-sent. Menelaus blue morpho's induced hues a......

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Categories: menelaus, allusion, analogy, beautiful, butterfly,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Odyssey of Hope
...Homer in his prime knew what was divine he sets out to woo the earth but his ambition was crumbed in the dirt, the Trojan War is an epic of past, love, power, hate, marriage, and crime; the Greeks an......

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Categories: menelaus, absence, change, city, desire,
Form: Narrative
Menelaus
...Eyes, in such a way, that some strange virture, some everlasting release Was imparted to he. A strange bargain indeed; to resist the gods and to please Satan in his rebellioin from all that was nat......

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Categories: menelaus, angel, anger, aubade, bird,
Form: Ekphrasis



Oh, Sparta -- If Only You Could Have Known
..."Hear your fate, O high-dwellers of the airy, wide open Spaces and fertile plain, your rugged and enclosed Lands, Sparta, untouched by that of hard-grinding war". ......

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Categories: menelaus, myth,
Form: Rhyme
For a Woman's Love
...For a Woman’s Love When you chose to walk away from me, swaying those seductive hips, hand in hand with my ‘trusted ally’, you took with you something more precious than pleasure. Whe......

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Categories: menelaus, anger, angst, betrayal, break
Form: Free verse
How Do I Love Thee
...How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee like the ice-cubed world that has been dropped in Vodka, splashing Pink Nuvo Freezing the sands of time, The Northern sky with the color of......

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Categories: menelaus, beautiful, beauty, first love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Idiot and the Oddity the King's Song
...King Menelaus' Song aka ( Helen's husband ) A Trojan boy, he stole my love And I know where he’s hidin’ But all I have’s a thousand ships I need your help Poseidon I dare not tell a single ......

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Categories: menelaus,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Love Is Truth-A Joy For Ever-
...True love never dies it’s black and white in books Love is not love that alters when finds alteration Love stories are fantasies giving joy to the world Ideal love is an object set for lo......

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Categories: menelaus, joy, love, truth, ,
Form: Sestina
One In Three
...Offspring of the rib Soft enticement of the flesh --- Woman beauty draped Mother rebelling Children to sag on the breast Eve pining at God Mother submitting Heaven's pleasure in the skin Mary, brin......

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Categories: menelaus, nostalgia, passion, love,
Form: Senryu
To Sorania,With Love
...Am not an aesthetic poet. I've no apollos laurel in ode. Too fragile is my tongue to tell your face; For your look I dare to speak. Play me that Amphion's harp That in your mouth dwells......

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Categories: menelaus, girlfriend-boyfriend, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Is Truth-A Joy For Ever-W
...True love never dies it’s black and white in books Love is not love that alters when finds alteration Love stories are fantasies giving joy to the world Ideal love is an object set for lovers, fo......

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Categories: menelaus, beauty, joy, love, ,
Form: Sestina
Dearest Menelaus
...Dearest Menelaus, It is really that easy Like a counting game For children on the street Not everything has to be so difficult You’re two parts external And one part internal And I read you ab......

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Categories: menelaus, introspection, life, people,
Form: I do not know?

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