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Votives Poems - Poems about Votives


CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4 Catullus LXV aka Carmina 65 loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Hortalus, I’m exhausted by relentless grief, and have thus abandoned the learned virgi......

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Categories: votives, brother, death, death of
Form: Free verse
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2 Catullus CI: 'His Brother's Burial' translation by Michael R. Burch 1. Through many lands and over many seas I have journeyed, brother, to these wretched rites, to t......

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Categories: votives, brother, death, death of
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member GOTHICISTA martini nothke
...GOTHICISTA  perceptible  & transcendental contra   distinctive      votives neo realistic fundamentals  in   fabulous detail of the sophisticated refined& elegant panoramas......

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Categories: votives, art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Unselfish Heart
...Line of inquiry - Ego shorn, here now reborn. Unselfish Heart The glow of the unselfish heart Decorates emptiness with candles While scattered relics of garden purity Re-light votives in Bab......

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Categories: votives, birth,
Form: Free verse
North Rim
...Grand Canyon darkness—city nights, towering votives in wingless flight Elevator to the desperate peak, ninety-nine floors above the waiting street Torment and doubt ride to the top, buttons nu......

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Categories: votives, death, life, suicide,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Welcome To Soup Creek Town
...If you come to Soup Creek town With any ulterior motives Best go first to the local chapel And light a few candle votives, We, the citizens, have values Not to mention a few morals A......

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Categories: votives, anti bullying, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Storm
...The Storm There is just enough love to know what I should do I did not know the spirals the zig zag, the sharpness of the cuts of being your mother ......

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Categories: votives, grief,
Form: Free verse
Imprint of Sorrow
...Amidst the solitude of empty pews in hallowed halls she took a seat and prayed she would not be forsaken. Candles lit, soft glow throwing shadows on the walls. Tear glistened cheeks, c......

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Categories: votives, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Paris Redivivus
...Your breath beside me. Willows beneath my boughs. Last night you cast love’s imposters out the door. Supine in your divinity, my thoughts tremble. Drunk in memories. I’m twenty-three in Pa......

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Categories: votives, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Union of Ultimates
...Come to me my eastern star, to your love mystery Avatar, travel the path of my tantric wish to where touch is holy spectacular, discover the dharma that has delivered the dream of Ardhanarishvara ......

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Categories: votives, desire, encouraging, joy, love,
Form: Epic
Labryinth
...Religious votives light a somber lair. A hole I fathered with rhinestones of doubt and swatches of fault. Sentinels loom - vapid gargoyles crouch in ghostly contemplation ogling my hand......

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Categories: votives, introspection
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Timber Cove
...Autumn day's goldenrays seap through heaven's gentle blues Shading, tangled leaves fire colors,autumn's unfallen few It's flowered clearings...calming and pleasant...devine sola......

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Categories: votives, nature, autumn, autumn,
Form: Pastoral
Jewels Blossom
...Silent motion jasmine votives flicker near jewel blossoms embraced in painted hand-made wicker barely surviving this winter's frostbite closed pedals sunstained pale in window light blushing pink......

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Categories: votives, nature,
Form: Narrative

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