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Votary Poems - Poems about Votary


My Eternal Knight
...The sun rises on silky dunes that look like breasts. You are lost in the desert, The air is dry and sandy residue explores your crevices. Peripatetic genetrix, Protector of sublime gifts passed ......

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Categories: votary, appreciation, birth, celebration, child,
Form: Rhyme
I loathe to turn last page of life
...I Old Age, let me not be a fugitive, Renegade, nor an earnest votary, Yet, when ye arrive on one unknown eve, Let no stray doubts dwell on my loyalty. If youth’s relished, leaves a lifelong f......

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Categories: votary, age, old,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Brownian Motion Writ Large
...Brownian motion writ large... within small medium as light brainstorm doth hail forth the following poem. Across the realm of gray matter slowly percolating within tissue composed of neuron......

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Categories: votary, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tribute To Harry Horsman
...(Inspired by Harry’s poems- The Old Oak Tree, Oh them hot air balloons, Death is Not the End and An Agendaless Age) I have known Harry barely two years back Yet I felt a strange rapport wit......

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Categories: votary, appreciation, death of a
Form: Free verse
Lady Fall
...O candles lit my temples all My gloomy gloomy darkish ways In beechen green I can not see The starry blooms, The heaven's fays O Thou votary of the lakes Votary of the clouds that float They ......

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Categories: votary, age, art, autumn, creation,
Form: Rhyme



Paul Verlaine Translation: It Rains In My Heart
...Il pleure dans mon coeur (“It rains in my heart”) by Paul Verlaine loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch It rains in my heart As it rains on the town; Heavy languor and dark Dr......

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Categories: votary, french, hate, heart, love,
Form: Verse
Earth's Oldest Love Poem
...The Love Song Of Shu-Sin loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Darling of my heart, my belovéd, your enticements are sweet, sweeter than honey. Darling of my heart, my belovéd,......

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Categories: votary, desire, love, lust, sin,
Form: Verse
Dance For Dionysus
...Tanka/ Haiku Dionysian’s Drunken Roman Bacchante (1) footnotes God of the Maenads' (2) Female appreciation Tainted murderous servants Maniacal twist Hold each- a sensuous kiss Trained not by hub......

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Categories: votary, faith, mystery, religion, mythology,
Form: Tanka

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