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Priapus Poems - Poems about Priapus

Full Steam Ahead

...I watched the water shuttering on the table.
I was stunned as this seemed out off sorts:
an earthquake exactly at twelve, high noon
on 12-12-2012 . This is the day, that the
Priapus Award finalis...

Categories: priapus, business, community, courage, culture,
Form: Bio

Oh What Is This Thing Called Love

...Oh, what is this thing called love? 
It's a concept I don't understand. 
Delight that occurs at first sight? 
Or can it be carefully planned? 

Is it something that lasts for all time, 
or will...

Categories: priapus, humorous,
Form: Quatrain

A Cynical Observation

...When Cupid fired an arrow in the air,
Where it might land?  He did not care!
His only intent?  To lighten his quiver,
When he shot his barbed Love dart thither!
So came the time, or so twas said,...

Categories: priapus, betrayal, humor, myth,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Faintheart

...Amid Arcady's sylvan groves(where once I gazed
Upon such luminous  and alabaster grace
By her  immortal beauty raptly drawn and dazed
As she turned and  gently upraised   her elfin face.
Like Aph...

Categories: priapus, lost love, love hurts,
Form: Pastoral

Den of the She-Wolf

...Perhaps we have loved before
in the Lupanar of Pompei
goddess of Priapus
the overseer
of the fertile garden
commanded me.

We perspired upon pillows
stuffed with reeds
feathers and straw
mo...

Categories: priapus, beauty, desire, love, muse,
Form: Free verse

Zeus

...King of the Gods 
And his blessed messenger Hermes
(One potato two potato three potato four)

God of sky and thunder
Blessed Hermes god of persuasion
(One potato two potato three potato four)
...

Categories: priapus, faith
Form: I do not know?

Tortuga (See Turtle-Red-Seaturtlegreen)

......He swims
in two Centuries
His cold War
of water
An Aeonor, a "one-in-a-thousander"
Survives
- BabyBoomer -
Slowmotioning poisemass
Ballet-imposing-intrepid
like a colossal Pet!

Above &...

Categories: priapus, animals, death, nature, sad,
Form: Free verse