Robed Poems - Poems about Robed

...when the sky breathes poetry through sepia-streaked silence, and the earth reclines, listening to the music of weeping wisterias~ blowing in the pulse of bleeding paradise, I swallow sizzling st......

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...Lonely Life Sometimes people think their thoughts are correct. – Infallible beings are? Why do people think they are infallible? – Pride and egoism. Despising the world In this world, people liv......

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...Condemned to die, beaten and torn. Upon His head a crown made of thorns. Upon His back they placed a purple cloak Treating all this as just a joke. And what they said in mockery, We repeat in ......

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...The stage lay bare and no one was standing there, but the follow spot lit up key positions and the audience waited patiently on the opening song. Silence blazes through the hall and the only thing th......

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...Love makes the lonely heart sing, for it would rather die! Like a bell that's lost its ring, or a forgotten one's sigh! The heart needs someone to care, Who knows of its sorrow. For nothing e......

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... soft the moon robed in yellow loft of clouds...her home's halo-- nights sift the hues pale to bright while fist of ray gleams on lune's flight: come, ......

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...Sappho Translations XII by Michael R. Burch In the following short translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if th......

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...Sappho Translations IX Sappho, fragment 17 translation by Michael R. Burch Hear me, Queen Hera, as your delightful festival nears, you to whom the sons of Atreus performed vows, those dazz......

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...Sappho Translations by VI Michael R. Burch Sappho, fragment 121 translation by Michael R. Burch 1. As a friend you're great, but you need a much younger bedmate. 2. Although you're very ......

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...Her sound functioned in the chorus of onlooker in my defeat. Might the Strumb of Kokopelli danced to the songs of Shiva and Bragi. I smiled days later that my retribution might silence the cele......

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...A mirror never reveals fallen secrets sewn with soulful sequins; time unmutes raven melodies within, tawny tunes of truth~ I once spoke in colorful dialects. Now, I trust just the......

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...cannot bear the weight of all my sin Alas, I fear, I’ll commit them all again To add another pound or two of guilt And hide behind my flame-retardant quilt And so if Hell must have me I’ll subm......

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... "Motherland" The “Removed”, Charlestons across the keyboard, fingers have a personality and a mind of their own, don’t you agree? the stalwart mind converses wit......

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...June 2024, in Borno state, Nigeria, three young Nigerian Christian men, knelt with hands tied behind their backs, under the fiery African sun. Then shot dead into eternity by Islamic State West ......

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...I dreamt I was in a church, I was walking up to the candlelit altar. There were clergy garbed in vestments, whether they were Catholic or Episcopal, I don't recall. A mourning Mass was about to ......

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