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Saturnalia Poems - Poems about Saturnalia

SATURN GOD OF TIME

...Saturn ! You magnetised with 
enchanting icy rings
promised white gold
endless skates on 
Chrysalis circled cates
said we would go round 
like fairy rings 
said you had so much
Love to give I...
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Categories: saturnalia, allegory, color, creation, extended
Form: Rhyme

Zealous untiring repentance

...Zealous untiring repentance

Fleshed out as poetic confessional.

Profligacy prevailed pricking psyche
precipitating pandemonium.

I wrought havoc courtesy aegis
of paramours picadillos, your...
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Categories: saturnalia, absence, adventure, africa, anger,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Metropolitan Utopia-Part Two

...Written: October 26, 2023

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Solace reached through alienation and wisdom
An oasis of calm in a harsh nature seldom
Mon...
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Categories: saturnalia, analogy, appreciation, beauty, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Devotions of Noel

...Saturnalia, the pagan worship of winter solstice,

                                  the darkest tidings of the year.

                             The birth of our Nazarene most likely

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Categories: saturnalia, christmas, culture, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCould I Rewrite This One

...If it was December and….
If I was an ancient Roman
But I assure you, I am not….
I would be feasting and merrymaking like mad
Celebrating the Festival of Saturn.
Or Saturnalia if you prefer.
As ...
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Categories: saturnalia, writing,
Form: Free verse



Festival of the Fools

...Festival of the Fools!

Festival of the Fools
in which is celebrated in different culture as different names
originally celebrated by most cultures on January first
which was first coined in Gre...
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Categories: saturnalia, art, beauty, celebration, city,
Form: List

Premium MemberScalar Saturnalia

...Welcome to my brain
Scalar saturnalia

Embracing sun and rain
Where rainbows spring euphoria

Where shadows cold and deep
Indulge in dreams of light

Where from the demons reap
The powers t...
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Categories: saturnalia, introspection, me,
Form: Rhyme

Dream Lady

...Saturnalia my Dream 

Cycloidal forms transmuting to the involute
obduration under duress a malleable direction
coming to nothing just the gearing of time
Spartan gates left open to a millennium...
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Categories: saturnalia, evil, life,
Form: Free verse

Christmas, Made of Awesome

...Every year someone is always expressing
that Christmas is imperialist, and oppressing
people not of the Christian faith,
That it’s unfairly taken Soltice’s place,
that the historical Jesus was no...
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Categories: saturnalia, celebration, christmas, family, holiday,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberReveille Rev-Uh-Lee

...A signal to arise.
I saw it in your eyes.
Reveille.

In good company
Aroused in your bed
Reveling with you
Reveille.

A celebration of the bugle
Your eyes of blue
So close to sunrise
Aliv...
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Categories: saturnalia, morning, romantic, sensual,
Form: Free verse

Diabolus In Suburbia

...We are drawn here for the festivity, to glorify His name.
In our crimson best, presents wrapped gaily, to glorify His name.

Joyous revelers and their dutiful handlers arriving.
Doors ope...
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Categories: saturnalia, america, birthday, childhood, culture,
Form: Ghazal

Saturnalia

...Cycloidal forms transmuting to the involute
obduration under duress a malleable direction
coming to nothing just the gearing of time
Spartan gates left open to a millennium of thought
three legge...
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Categories: saturnalia, allegory,
Form: Free verse

Three Sure Signs of Christmas Repost

...There are twelve days of Christmas, everybody knows that
But there are only three signs to know, it’s time to start getting fat.
The first sign that Christmas is really getting quite near
Is all t...
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Categories: saturnalia, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

Solstice

...The usurpation of the annual right of solstice
by a quarrelsome religious upstart,
Lead to the re-designation of the celebration
due to its now newly designated Holy part.

In order for a con...
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Categories: saturnalia, funny, holiday,
Form: Light Verse

Three Sure Signs of Christmas

...Three Sure Signs of Christmas
There are twelve days of Christmas, everybody knows that
But there are only three signs to know it’s time to start getting fat.
The first sign that Christmas is getting ...
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Categories: saturnalia, satire, christmas, time, christmas,
Form: Light Verse

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