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Scylla Poems - Poems about Scylla

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CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 3
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 3 Catullus VII: 'How Many Kisses' loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch You ask, Lesbia, how many kisses are enough, or more than enough, to satisfy me?......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, angst, desire, happiness, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Homeward Bound in a Sea of Troubles
...As we harness Fate’s wild winds to our lee While navigating Life’s troublesome sea, We become flanked by Scylla and Charybdis With only our life experience to guide us. Yet try we do, and we ......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, conflict, fate, home, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Recalcitrant Rhymester Demonstrates Reasonable Raillery
...spoke kin like a true non establishmentarian. Wily wordsmith wields wisdom and wit renders requiem welcoming thee to visit, no matter foisting poetic riffraff (mine) necessitates applying fig......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, appreciation, atheist, celebration, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Sea of Change
...I'd met you, like a lad meeting his neighbor little lass, Charmed to you at very first sight, I stood like a dumb ass; As tabooed lover admiring his darling, I stood far, Thirst of bathing in you......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, change, life, sea, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Your Destiny Is Sealed
...Your destiny is sealed You have always been our loveless master scheming and provoking our disaster Spinning tales of Scylla and Charybdis Concealing truth so it could not uplift us Contriv......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, destiny, evil, freedom, god,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Between Scylla and Charybdis
...Torn and tempest tossed Steering straight I cannot How narrow is that line To keep me safe between The devil and the deep blue sea Too easy it is to stray on To the primrose path Where live i......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All-Or-Nothing Thinking
...For what reason this all-or-nothing thinking? Too hot, too cold,—but never in the middle I live, a victim of this ruthless riddle (that contradicts reply, and has me sinking)! This an......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, life, mental illness, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Of Fate and the Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis
...Of Fate And The Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis (From Continued Greek Heroes And Mythology Series) Part Two.... referenced, *Scylla and Charybdis, *Homer, *Iliad and The Odyssey, *Hades, *......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, art, encouraging, fate, history,
Form: Rhyme
Un-Infected
...Caught between the Scylla of illness and the Charybdis of wholeness My reason and my belly make a swift retreat infected by indecision. Side by side they stand now silent like the dead. I hear ......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, art,
Form: Rhyme
Recalcitrant Rhymester Demonstrates Reasonable Raillery
...Wily wordsmith wields wisdom and wit renders requiem welcoming thee to visit, no matter foisting poetic riffraff (mine) necessitates applying figurative tourniquet to staunch potential life th......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Bring Back the Horse and Buggy
...Automobile prohibitive maintenance costs pitches me pitifully begging for alms lamenting dog forsaken melon collie unpleasant circumstances pleading with outstretched palms disgraced to beg, per......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Between Scylla and Charybdis
...Greek mythological drama flourishes, nee thrives within noggin of yours truly gods and goddesses sporting Hellenic origins purportedly cavort higgledy-piggledy rampantly running ragged rum......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, allegory, analogy, destiny, fire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xii
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XII IF you pull a mighty long face Such as even Bollywood can't display Put not the blame on the mixed human race The fault most likely comes from animal DNA ......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, heartbroken, longing, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Nostalgic Reminiscence Where'R Thee Be Maryann Sage
...smitten with a forsaken long lost love *** plus years ago, aye since didst roam'n o'er hill and dale as one heart broken beau twas being cow warring utter oxymoron, whereby t......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Woe To the Lust Nemesis
...Woe to you Lust Nemesis of men whose conscience you manipulate and ensnare Reducing their pituitary gland to impotent dust Singing their future and dignity with no iota of care To plunge King ......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla, poems,
Form: Free verse

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