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Voluptuousness Poems - Poems about Voluptuousness

Charles Baudelaire translation: Invitation to the Voyage

...This is my English translation of "L'Invitation au voyage" ("Invitation to the Voyage") by the French poet Charles Baudelaire. It's a poem he wrote for his soulmate...

Invitation to the Voyage
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Categories: voluptuousness, child, french, language, love,
Form: Free verse

Her unique story

...#Her_unique_story
From a distance, my thoughts provoked, gazed in with deep mesmerization, saw only the fine linens God had embroiled her silky soft texture with, forgot that she too was human befor...
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Categories: voluptuousness, color, crush, emotions, for
Form: Free verse



Ode To the Wind That Has Caressed Her

...Spontaneous,
All caressing,
Wind,
That she has loved,
As much as a glass,
Of champagne,
In evenings splendor,
That has sighingly,
Caressed,
Her wild sweet laughter,
Her hairs golden tendern...
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Categories: voluptuousness, beauty, nature, wind,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberRelish the Richness

...RELISH THE RICHNESS
luscious
  notions
attempt
  to demonstrate
vibrancy
  touchingly subdued
original
  precisely
  endured
refashioned
  fulsomely
in
gorgeous
  desired
voluptuousnes...
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Categories: voluptuousness, poetry,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberPassing Parades

...A governess, a guardian of the young, so known and dear as to be called “Mother” and a noblewoman, just barely 12 by age, named Portia, sit talking as the sun sets the stage for a cool, cloudless nig...
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Categories: voluptuousness, education, longing, romance, teen,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberEthereal Extrapolation

...past retentiveness
absurdity would not last
you or me
      idiosyncratic

riddles held not held
pain lurking
an obdurate innuendo
        bonafide

talks uttered 
not uttered by me
a...
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Categories: voluptuousness, analogy, bereavement, extended metaphor,
Form: Other

Premium MemberArtemisia Exposed

...conception
   of
      femininity
exposed

the courageous
      determined
         energetic
in exuberant  voluptuousness

with intent
of lips&
          strongwilled chin
evocative
of...
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Categories: voluptuousness, art, people,
Form: Ekphrasis

Live For Love Not For Hate

...Pale
of tenderness,
dare
impure
gentle,
be rude to
candor...
be stealthy
in the present,
enthusiastic
almost childish,
inert energized...
Be faithful even when betraying,
I can't find lo...
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Categories: voluptuousness, allegory, allusion, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Huntress, After Baudelaire

...Huntress
by Michael R. Burch

after Baudelaire

Lynx-eyed, cat-like and cruel, you creep
across a crevice dropping deep
into a dark and doomed domain.
Your claws are sheathed. You smile, insa...
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Categories: voluptuousness, allegory, analogy, animal, extended
Form: Sonnet

Baudelaire Translation: the Duel

...Duellem (The Duel)
by Charles Baudelaire
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Two combatants charged! Their fearsome swords
brightened the air with fiery sparks and blood.
Their clashing blad...
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Categories: voluptuousness, anger, conflict, extended metaphor,
Form: Sonnet

Baudelaire Translation: the Balcony

...Le Balcon (The Balcony)
Charles Baudelaire
trans. Michael R. Burch

Paramour of memory, ultimate mistress,
source of all pleasure, my only desire;
how can I forget your ecstatic caresses,
the ...
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Categories: voluptuousness, beauty, crush, for her,
Form: Verse

Insomnia

...On the wall, the night is a picture surrealistic ... In the flesh I tire my life ... My head runs deeply into the world ... And my feet devour distances back ... Here the pen divert me to writing on ...
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Categories: voluptuousness, allusion, metaphor, night, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberPromiscuity and Femininity

...You were voluptuousness, innocent and pure,
the personification of beauty and pleasure.
And much like Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of love, 
you knew how to fuel the dreams and aspirations...
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Categories: voluptuousness, 12th grade, beautiful, emotions,
Form: Free verse

I'M a Black Anubis

...I'm a black Anúbis
and I'm on the edge of my bed.
Oh glamor, the one I feel
when I roll in bed
and my feet huge or hot legs
twist and my trunk
I lick the snot of my voluptuousness.
I'm a Black...
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Categories: voluptuousness, abuse, addiction, africa, baptism,
Form: Acrostic

Love

...My demeanor, the aftermaths of recklessness 
A child once, a man to soon
The glory to my name gone, the grace faded
Change do I offer no opposition to 
Derogatory remarks, have I afforded restrai...
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Categories: voluptuousness, baby, beautiful, birth, growing
Form: Sestina

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