Pierian Poems - Poems about Pierian

...When I pen lines, fresh thoughts of Vincent van Gogh strike me! How, with palette and brushes, he breathed life's scenes onto blank canvases long ago: coasts, countrysides, sunflowers, a......Read the rest...

...I. A maid and muse, her name is Rose; which inspires me to write this song that trills a sound which softly flows. A maid and muse, her name is Rose; a ray of hope who comes and goes ......Read the rest...

...MY JURY Representation of my Pierian spring, Attorney of my indelible ink, An old woman does not get tired in the dance she knows best; Life's court sent forth for my jury: Evidence speaks ......Read the rest...

......the birds having nothing on you each tasty morsel drips deflowering of night and day where sun has chose to stay close your lips to mine piercing the aire behel......Read the rest...

... "The Periwinkle Time" Blues crushed prepossessing Violet Lavender starbursts sharp as diamonds undressed, a soul preys with black as crow f......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...What can I do when the spring runs dry? Words refuse to come,images die In the desert of the mind,only drought No oasis in sight,there's none about The searing sun of silence allows for no shade......Read the rest...

...O Cinna man,where you gonna run to? O Cinna man,where are you gonna hide? What's with poetry which makes us all blue? Your verses we can no longer abide Most of us labour on the foothills of......Read the rest...

...Gone now are the wondrous minds of old, whose era treasured learning over gold, And humble were the thoughts and words of these, who, trothed to truth, would now be left displeased, by hurried te......Read the rest...

...Poesy requires skill and meter, and a bard of golden heart; or he will tire and teeter. “Ars longa, vita brevis.” A bard must seek inspiration, and write with love and art to creat......Read the rest...

...O, Tenebrous O, interminable tenebrous ev'r bewildering, haunting, taunting my incessant Pierian Spring! McCuen Copyright October 2008......Read the rest...

...Late at night Losing all sense of time Caught in the web's Ghostly glow A glimpse of an ad During a sip of ruby red A muse was born (Amusin' illusion) To tempt the Melpomene in me. Dionysus ......Read the rest...