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Odysseys Poems - Poems about Odysseys

Our New Myths

...Light years before
history began to take itself seriously
we commenced to spin our myths.

We carry these unread books,
to where this ancient world
has erupted from the molten
to solid ground....
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Categories: odysseys, poetry,
Form: Free verse

A Walk Through a Small Park

...My lady friend and I sit on stumps. When she sings
she rings the woods with a monarch's butterfly wings.

A crowd of bikers
on foot as hikers
in thick with woods
unsaddles moods.

Old ladies ...
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Categories: odysseys, adventure, city, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Poetry II

...If poetry channels our anger and sorrow
Who then will want to write it tomorrow
And will joy and contentment stifle its future?
And what will become of our stays and culture?

I say poetry has b...
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Categories: odysseys, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMind of the Heart

...“feeling not thinking, soul with love linking ~
      we attained God consciousness unblinking" ~ Unseeking Seeker 

L e t t e r s
I weave with
tears of twilight,
wish...
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Categories: odysseys, faith, muse,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFall Rhapsody

...Rhymes in Nine 2 10-11-24 Rhymes checked with www.rhymezone Picture #4
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Fall Rhapsody

Fall rhapsody to BEGIN, TOLD IN scarlet tones,
A SERENADE f...
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Categories: odysseys, autumn, eve,
Form: Rhyme



Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary Cuisines

...Yours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whe...
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Categories: odysseys, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

Amorous Odysseys

...Amorous Odyssey’s

We’re for each other 
It’s plain to see
All our countless 
Mutuality’s

Like locknecked swan’s 
Swooning on a pond
We’ll sing together 
As we float along

We’re for eac...
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Categories: odysseys, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme

Alphabetical Love

...Anecdotes all arousing my head
breathless begging to be your best
carefully caressing your caramel skin
ditching the deep ditches of dolor
enveloping the ever-present eerie aura
faithfully fakin...
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Categories: odysseys, love,
Form: Abecedarian

Predivatic

...and our thoughts that were serious
turned life into acidity
but we're celebrating having survived
without tearing each other down too much
see, I allow myself to laugh at the televisions
as you ...
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Categories: odysseys, allegory, universe,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Sacred Drops

...Forth from the heaven, from the misty moorlands of all sacred woodland greens,
drop by drop by striking the pebbles and untouched vegetations oozes, 
the intoning hallowed water of evergreen wo...
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Categories: odysseys, beauty, journey, nature, philosophy,
Form: Romanticism

Austerity

...Dynasties of greed and its economic policies,
political discourse and its perpetual odysseys.
Deficits through poor implementation,
voted promises and false trust revocation.
Borrowed capital and...
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Categories: odysseys, analogy, social, truth,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberOregon's Octobers

...Oregon's Octobers offer odysseys 
of opulent orange orchards
opening on overjoyed oaks.

10/25/19

For 'Tautogram' contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper

1st Place...
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Categories: odysseys, autumn, nature, tree,
Form: Tautogram

Premium MemberViolet Light

...Oval lines of opaque light

Violet tracing the universe

     Eons crossing; curving height

Magnetic Venus flares; coerce

     Iridescent sisters of Mars

Aurora imbued divinity

     O...
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Categories: odysseys, journey, light, space, stars,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIt Was the Word After All

...Wrapped into a cocoon of impenetrable meaning and faith he followed the light

Doom and gloom had once shadowed his library of dreams and contentment

Scattered in his loony resemblance of a rati...
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Categories: odysseys, books,
Form: Free verse

Destiny's Railroad

...In times oft-forgotten great freight trains rolled through.
Each boxcar was tagged in a swashbuckling hue,
Flamboyantly hawking some stale, mawkish view.
Now all that remains is the desolate track...
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Categories: odysseys, destiny, future, life,
Form: Rhyme

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