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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......

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Categories: suckled, beautiful, boy, death, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Water Serpent's I - Klimt
... suckled into gentle sleep softness finessed understood waves lap cares drift seaweed untangles lets us be each grain of sand fits together creating d......

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Categories: suckled, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Internal Cold War
...I'm torn across axis yet to exist, Or had once been, since been replaced, By a sense of self and lack thereof, When we, by they encased. Cleavage adorned in modest terms, Abreast as if more th......

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Categories: suckled, abuse, age, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Backspace
...I already understand that children grow inside two blinks, as quickly as the novel Mayfly comes to the surface to die. I'm pining for those first days again, of edentate smiles, milestones......

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Categories: suckled, absence, children, leaving, loss,
Form: Free verse
The Old Nurse's Lament
...Farewell, dear child, with whom I shared my joys, Who suckled at my breasts as didst my own. May thou find in the world where thou now art All that thy heart desired while still alive, But this o......

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Categories: suckled, bereavement, child, death, farewell,
Form: Blank verse
Crossroads
... Here I stand Amidst the Crossroads of Life Abandoned, Worldly Pleasures behind me, Forsaken Crimson Wasteland Here I Am Pouring Libations to the Oracle of Truth Selfish Desires Beyond Me, ......

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Categories: suckled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sugar Maple Home
... To be left bare to all rhyme and most reason From gnarled wounds of sweet nectar eaten A Mother whom suckled life, now weakened Still they come in glee, lapping there the given In her bloomed......

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Categories: suckled, immigration, nature, october, tree,
Form: Rhyme
MY FIRST BORN
...So, I can also be a father was the song my anxiety sang in that labour room, For the past nine months I had watched him grow in his mother's womb, Now, I was called in to hear his first earthly cry......

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Categories: suckled, anxiety, birth, celebration, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
What Love begets
...The mother loved him before she met him. On days when her love posed a threat She gambled with her health And cradled him against her breast, And clenched her teeth to preserve the gift h......

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Categories: suckled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
the painting
...The Painting When she left, it was late in the evening on the snow-covered path to the street her footprints were not visible On the road, there were too many footprints to recognize if an......

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Categories: suckled, absence, africa, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
On a Bed of Roses
...On a bed of roses Honey-suckled scent. Love is in the air, when I'm with you I have no cares. Relaxed and transfixed A beautiful sunset. Our souls connect On a bed of roses, I lie here wi......

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Categories: suckled, love,
Form: Ballad
The Sunflower
...Paradise garden, green and lush. Berries a sharp red growing on a bush. Translucent petals fall like the autumn leaves, golden with a dash of hazel. Immense beauty beyond belief. A flitted ray ......

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Categories: suckled, flower,
Form: Ballad
Thru a Paroxysm of Tears
...Thru a paroxysm of tears... I inconsolably wept a river of sorrow starkly aware alienated daughter(s) implacable woe sundered fatherhood yesterday, today and tomorrow. A series of unfortunat......

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Categories: suckled, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seduction At Altar
.... Yogi. Arts Aesthetics There were Times such Disciplined One trained Disciples to Ever Desist Temptation Gold & Girl Lust & Love Men trained To overcome Carnal quests A......

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Categories: suckled, self, senses, sexy, silence,
Form: Concrete
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
...Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult Yours truly (an amazingly, gracefully, and markedly modest passively aging baby boomer - formerly introverted long haired pencil nec......

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Categories: suckled, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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