God Panther Poems

Legendary Panthers life is the best
Without working they just eat and take rest
While I toil real hard for my food
They just roar loudly and get...

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In my fantasy zoo of enchantment
Super panther basks in magic moment
exuding scent that creates wonderment
while smiting anxiety’s detriment
toward good health and welfare’s fulfillment.

Roaming to display...

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When grapes ripen and flow down barrels,
drunk ancient Greeks abandon morals,
roar accosts their ears from distant cave,
ushers season of feasting and rave!

With every roar spreads...

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A story had been told about the Great Lakes,                ...

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The Panther Who Roams Greece


The panther who roams Greece
Was a mysterious legendary piece,
He was the favorite of Dionysus, the god,
Whom the people very much adored.
The...

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Emerging from dappled shadows dim
        Panther skulk speaks compassion's incessance 
       ...

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Finally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected
by Michael R. Burch

Athena takes me
sometimes by the hand

and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands

where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting

and Passion seems
like...

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The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is...

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Archaischer Torso Apollos ("Archaic Torso of Apollo")
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions....

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