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Callimachus English Translations II

...Callimachus English translations

For Gail White

To the Cup-Bearer
by Callimachus
translation by Michael R. Burch

Decant the wine then toast "To Diokles!" Nor does the beautiful boy Achelou...

Categories: stepmothers, beautiful, boy, death, flower,
Form: Free verse

A Winter Fairytale

...“Follow your dreams and never let them pale
Be the star of a winter fairytale.”

* * *
Once upon a time a sweet bonnie lass
Did all her horrendous stepmoth...

Categories: stepmothers, fantasy, girl, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme

Clark Came Courting Loralei

...Loralei’s green eyes flickered in the dark,
Noticed by males, especially Clark.

She captivated him in every way.
He reminisced about her most of the day.

Truth told, she was totally unaware.
...

Categories: stepmothers, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Grimms Fairy Tale Retold

...GRIMM’S FAIRY TALE RETOLD

In a beautiful huge green forest,
Lived 3 honest people, Hansel and Gretal
And their father,
And two wicked women, the witch,
And a wife who was also a step-mother.
...

Categories: stepmothers, children,
Form: Free verse

Faerie Wing Blessings

...Faerie wing blessings for the believer girl who lives here
In the forest, inside a giant moss-covered hill, surrounded by
delicate mushrooms with dainty stems, and overgrown meat.

Faeries congre...

Categories: stepmothers, 4th grade, angel, bullying,
Form: Free verse

A Stepmothers Love

...Hug him,
Comfort him,
Nurture him,
Her guise a sweet yet cunning ruse.

Break him,
Twist him,
Ruin him,
She was my fathers own to choose.

Hold him,
Calm him,
Kiss him,
A joyless game to...

Categories: stepmothers, abuse, anger, betrayal, child
Form: I do not know?

Mercy For the Ugly One

...On the mirror,
an unexplained word,
tired from long nights,
on long beds,
with strange men;
green,
gray,
copies of themselves...

Snow in sorrow,
a stepmothers love,
burning slow,
in a dy...

Categories: stepmothers, allegory, dark,
Form: Free verse

W-Ode To 50 Wives Bred To Worship the Polygamous Prophet

...Strophe

The polygamist had a big house                                        
Where he chose to warehouse hundreds of girls
And women including 29 stepmothers, his father’s spouses
56 of the g...

Categories: stepmothers, house, parents, sad, satire,
Form: Ode