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Lilith
The first independent woman
created by God from dust,
and placed in the Garden of Eden,
turned into a hot fiery female of fantasy.
The first wife of Adam,
she got banished from Eden
for disobeying his masculine domination.
In...
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Categories:
evil, mythology,
Form: Free verse
PegasusSomewhere, deep in a cave, an unknown creature is born.
It will open its eyes to the harsh realities to be called ungodly;
Yet, through a mother's eyes, it is beautiful in its very design.
The way it...
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Categories:
mythology, animal, beauty, horse, mother,
Form: Free verse
Salvage A WhirStair carefully dear into the unknown abyssal void.
Pier was once past and now rotted and rictus, petrified.
Hue manatee threaded ten den and garnet.
Ruby teardrops and crimson Damascus drips droplets,
like a leak key faucet in the...
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Categories:
mythology, dark, dog, gothic, horror,
Form: Free verse
''What Beauty Is To The Geometrist'' ReprisedWhat beauty is (to the geometrist),
is the shape of the Golden Ratio!
Beauty is courage, the defiant fist
of a protector fear can't overthrow.
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Categories:
mythology, beauty, literature, love, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Lilith
I am Lilith, like a ghost pipe
under oak shadows of Tomorrow River Valley
hiding in-between hours, roots sipping moonlit juice
borrowed from Eden, a deception of men ascending
into the hollow of my forgotten stories—
awaiting Judgment and Consumption,
theirs...
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Categories:
mythology, analogy, endurance, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Lilith
Categories:
fantasy, mythology,
Form: Free verse
LilithRose-petal lips, first quarter-moon forehead, galaxy face
Dimpled chin, button nose, flimsy jaw, eyes with a wild gaze
Skin that lures and intoxicates, like Tawny Port wine
She's divine. She's benign. She's also a sign of decline.
Created from...
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Categories:
myth, mythology, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Lilith“The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there and find for Lilith...
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Categories:
mythology,
Form: Free verse
The Curse of The PearlLegends from Hawaii, are in themselves,
legendary, like some treasured keepsake.
The Pearls Curse is not on library shelves,
just a few Hawaiians that I forsake ...
Prompts summed place the world had called Pearl Harbor,
the locals called the...
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Categories:
mythology, absence, betrayal, bullying, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Zeus
Zeal for leadership
Empowered by lightning and thunder
Ultimate ruler of the gods
Sky is his domain
5-15-2024...
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Categories:
mythology,
Form: Acrostic
The Truth in TimeMaterialised out of t’ foggy whorl.
Most people have speculated without fail
from whence shores or dimension you have hail’d.
They agreed upon: You’re out of this world!
A temperament like Mercury hurled.
I’m a master in the...
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Categories:
horse, mythology,
Form: Sonnet
Persephone's Kisses~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
glittering
swarms:
Persephone’s
kisses...
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Categories:
mythology,
Form: Monoku
My Vision QuestThe skies grew dark,
Flashes of light,
The past, the present,
Glimpses in my sight.
The dreams of the night,
Invade until twilight.
An owl comes with a message,
Dreams and nightmares,
Visions and premonitions.
I see her focus within my view,
Then I realize...
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Categories:
mythology, blessing, devotion, dream, journey,
Form: Rhyme
DelphicThe forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tow’ring trees with their branches widespread
Sift light which falls like a golden shower
(As when Zeus to Danaë’s chamber came)
Reaching the moist...
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Categories:
allusion, fantasy, mythology, nature,
Form: Free verse
CROSSROADSWell, here I am again… at my crossroads
I can tell they are mine
The marker I.D. reads “Between a rock and a hard place”
“What a shameful disgrace
As usual, I am not alone
We are not born alone
So,...
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Categories:
destiny, journey, mythology, perspective,
Form: Prose Poetry
Specific Types of Mythology Poems
Definition | What is Mythology in Poetry?
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