Robed Poems - Poems about Robed

...They took me at seven, not with chains — but with silence, incense, and Latin refrains. Fr. Toni, black-robed, sharp-eyed and still, Read my soul like scripture, broke my will. Not to destroy —......

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... If only wings all words would soar...too many anchors yet to endure. Knowing is maybe less important than living? Certainly we are not here, to teach God anything. We soak in our grief -......

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...Ever since I left you the sky has been too narrow and the light too heavy and I inhabit the flatlands like an exile, dreaming of the Blood of Christ mountains and mesquite. The scent of sil......

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... Whether the Indigenous People, robed in leathers, head dressed in feathers, who had their own sovereign nations, wanted it or not, June 2nd 1924, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge condes......

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...I can see All the way from in here That the fate of the world is on a precarious knife-edge The black-robed vultures Are gathering In secret covens and lodges For their Great Cull Car......

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...f e e l me like sonnets of sunrise infused with clementine cadence as I am the golden essence in your floral skyline a hazel rose quenched amidst the quiescence of dulcet devo......

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...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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