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Parnassus Poems - Poems about Parnassus

Premium Member ''Poetry Spoke Truth and Truth, Poetry''--Reprised, Final Revision
...I. Like arrows swiftly launched on bleeding wings, space and time flew to shape our foretold fates. Parnassus glorified supernatural beings, birthing grand songs too vast to narrate. From Pi......

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Categories: parnassus, beauty, death, fate, fire,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Loss of Faith
...If Muse can strengthen faith by her Parnassus, then whisper, thou, thy love's labor (and call the messiah!) to author my soul's Damascus, to blind my eyes and convert me as Paul. If ......

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Categories: parnassus, allusion, betrayal, christian, faith,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member A Phantasmagoria of Nonsense
...I searched in vain for inspiration. I even climbed the sacred Parnassus Where all the muses reside. I danced with them Engaged in endless discourse. All in vain. Then I resigned to my fate. ......

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Categories: parnassus, addiction, writing,
Form: Free verse
Errata I
...Erotic Errata by Michael R. Burch I didn’t mean to love you; if I did, it came unbid- en, and should’ve remained hid- den! *** Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101 by Michael R. Burch ......

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Categories: parnassus, crush, desire, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On Youth, Love, and the Muse
...I. What delight is there, when the wine of youth runs out and just the dregs of life remain? When childhood flowers, and love's fire becomes truth, the lusts of adolescence touch the ......

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Categories: parnassus, childhood, desire, love, lust,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member The Sleeper and the Supernaturalist
... "The Sleeper and The Supernaturalist" The Sleeper shone as she walked through the Woods shining alive like nothing natural could caught in the moonlight una......

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Categories: parnassus, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member When Melancholy Drowns My Interests
...When melancholy drowns my interests, all seem lost; when black bile's ooze then molests, I travel through the valley of this death, lacking life, hope—even desire for bre......

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Categories: parnassus, depression, god, hope, inspiration,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Long For Your Truant Inspiration
...I long for your truant inspiration, O Muse, for I've felt your absence too long; empower me to sing a gay, new song, that with pen I may still bring creation! Reappear, Muse, to my ......

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Categories: parnassus, creation, inspiration, life, muse,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member A Bard's Self-Reflection On Life
...None can share in full the loss You have known; from innocence to experience, You, fair child, were never meant to be alone; to be betrayed by saints who were untrue; to know the sting ......

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Categories: parnassus, destiny, fate, heart, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member An Appeal To My Muse's Inspiration
...I long for thy truant inspiration, O Muse! (I feel thine absence for too long.). Restore to me the gift of creation once more,—that I may sing a new, gay song. Reappear soon to my great......

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Categories: parnassus, creation, inspiration, longing, loss,
Form: Sonnet
This and Other Things I Write
...By God of Earth and Eden In this life I have a pencil Bitter and sweet Heavy and light I will ink for a while but then I must buckle for my boat to set sail into the Island of Light. I ......

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Categories: parnassus, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Short Stuff: Epigrams
...Epigrams by Michael R. Burch Negligibles by Michael R. Burch Show me your most intimate items of apparel: begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ... Negotiables by Michael R......

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Categories: parnassus, body, clothes, death, eulogy,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Prayer For the Makers
...Our pages' dearth decrees our need for death when, from time to time, we invoke the Muse and she doth not reply (but doth refuse!) as our quills run dry while we fail for breath of insp......

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Categories: parnassus, god, inspiration, jesus, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member ''Where Art Thou, Muse''
...Where art thou, Muse? I seek inspiration! I have endured your absence for too long: restore to me the gift of creation once more, that I may sing a new, gay song. When you return I'll feel great ......

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Categories: parnassus, creation, inspiration, metaphor, muse,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Crushed
...To Lesley do I owe a big debt No more over verse will I ever sweat Reading her nuanced advice between the lines My motivation to versify sharply declines It has become clear to me that my rot......

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Categories: parnassus, lost love, poems, sad,
Form: Rhyme

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