Short Sappho Poems

There’s no moon
The Pleiades have disappeared.
It’s midnight,
I catch the no.48 
I’m the only passenger....

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A 6th century poet Sappho
wrote verse on the Isle of Lesbo
Creating a genre called  Saphics
the of which stil exists...

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Sappho
didn't want a beau
she wrote about her lesbian passion
and that sort of thing is always in fashion

posted too late for the clerihew contest!...

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Do not stay at your window only to watch
The Snake is dizzy 
Do not worry
Give up drinking the white milk of prey/ies
Express your positive suma
The road (in/on) up to the mountain is full of curves
Drive safely and wisely, go slowly....

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Twined Her Spirits Orbiting Love's Night Their Milky Way, Sublime
Thule's, Scandinavian Gypsy Queens Ambrosia's Arcane, Sceptre She
Crowned Of Jewels Transexual Beads ? Avatar, This Heart Which Bleeds
Swirling Mass Creativity; When Worlds Collide Their Meant To Be ? Sappho....

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BORDEAUX & ESCARGOT



Slo
Tiptoe
Mistletoe
Bravissimo
Rainbow audio
Sappho & Romeo
Indigo scenario
Sublimo Michelangelo
Magnifico oboe adagio



AP:  3rd place 2020

Submitted on November 1, 2019 for contest RHYMING NONET sponsored by CHARLES MESSINA  -  RANKED 1ST...

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We put the urn aboard ship.
Excubant vigil by starlight kept. 
Cradled in a zephyr grip, 
distant, the desolate catacomb crept.
Homeward, encumbered vessels slip
adorned in the dreams of those who slept.

Preston Graham
Submission for contest: Complete The Lines
Hosted by: nette onclaud
07/25/15
Line 5 - Sappho...

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We put the urn aboard ship
Roots teeming from lavish fields
Yellow bells and peonies birthing soon
As the moon softens its limbs 
Brightening  the way our vessel rides
Through blissful miles  of  springtime day.



For Contest   Complete The Lines  of nette onclaud
Jul 25, 2015   posted by Rhoma Em
Line 5:  ‘We put the urn aboard ship.’----  Sappho...

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As Sappho climbed the mountainside,
She knew the Muses waited there,
And she was welcomed by all nine
And given Laurels for her hair. 

She wandered gaily through the wood,
Until she found Apollo’s cave,
And then she dived into the spring -
She’d seen the place where poets bathe.

As nymphs were dancing round the fire,
She played a paean on her lyre....

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SYLVIA

I hear they have placed 
A pretty blue plaque
High above your flat
So that tourists can find you
And say that this is the spot  
Where you killed yourself.

Lucky girl, you modern Sappho
To take the quantum leap  
Like a comet to take your place
Among the darkest regions of empty space
With a brilliance that few can keep
And even less the mind to know  
Where no dull planet can perturb you 
As fallen flowers have no faces....

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SAPPHO'S CLIMB

Is this Sappho to whom i speak
Bride of Lesbos with the low forbidden voice
She climbs the rocky mountains dangerous  peak
Calls in the blue daughters of twilight to rejoice
in the bursting spring. She brings her songs and lyre
Delights the camping soldiers with the fire
Bold call-- vibrates soldierly repressed desires
Sirens yearn --bid most valiant heroes return
Desert-- slaves to familiar arms that hold them til they burn...

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Crimson lips, lovers awaken with a kiss
Creamy white skinned Goddesses resting
In a time where Socrates lusted after Sappho's 
Poetry and art.
 
The Grecian people worshiped her with
her beauty and exquisite prose. On the wings
of her art she played enchanting music arranged 
for immortality.

Golden chariots in fields of apples bold,
yet, solitary like one fallen from the tree, 
Sappho wrote her memoirs and music
while exiled, her death unspoken....

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My mind is still on your Grecian isle yet lost
Through time to another place where I exist
As Sappho sings her songs to me once more
And time unites worlds.

I dream as you lie beside me of rivers
Winding gently down your sloping hills, curving
Around the whispered breeze as you breathe, inhaling
Senses from my heart.

Awaken Aphrodite with discreet kisses
Placed in indiscreet places as sunlight calls
Revealing the night of cardinal pleasure
And whispers hello!...

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