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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 and charybdis, 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 and charybdis, 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 and charybdis, 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 and charybdis, 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 and charybdis, 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 and charybdis, 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 and charybdis, art, encouraging, fate, history,
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 and charybdis, 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 and charybdis, 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 and charybdis, allegory, analogy, destiny, fire,
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 and charybdis, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Stuck In Scy-La-La-Lin
...If there's kingdom of bad moments, Its oubliette's sticking; Where none owns any place, but- Places own the being. Cramping inside bad, ugly cells- In graveyards locking in, Inside cars or sp......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla and charybdis, art, fun, parody, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
The Odyssey Redux - Part Iii - From Circe's Isle To Scylla and Charybdis
...And so they sailed, on and on, uncharted were where they went, till they came to Hade's land Dark and grey and dismal was the land where wraiths and shadows wandered on the sand There they held con......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla and charybdis,
Form: Epic
The Odyssey Pantoumimed - Ii
...We let loose the untamed winds As boulders crashed eleven ships were lost With storm unabated into the Laestrygons we ran T'was one lone ship which hit Circe's land As boulders crashed eleven s......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla and charybdis,
Form: Pantoum
Librium Equilibrium
...remains of rehab bottle no longer beckons sweet pills give surcease scylla defeats charybdis librium now liberates Syllable count via www.howmany syllables.com Librium is oft......Read the rest...
Categories: scylla and charybdis, addiction,
Form: Tanka

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