David

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David . 2 years ago
Scales
A sinner cannot test his weight By stepping on God's awful scale.
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David . 2 years ago
The Wraith
By reputation, you are wise, And you have counseled those oppressed
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David . 2 years ago
Kalends
According to astrology, The stars arrange themselves to bind
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David . 2 years ago
Cassandra
He's cruel and stupid, and ignores His omened doom, pronounced, decreed,
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David . 2 years ago
Agamemnon
Agamemnon gets his own poem. This came out of the previous one but it was getting kinda long for Instagram. Beside the Myceneans didn’t have dossiers and I wanted to keep the rhyme. "He’d give hi...
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Auguries
The ancients put tremendous matters On oracles and auguries.
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David . 2 years ago
Wit and Wisdom
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David . 2 years ago
The Scaup
Inspired by a Kalevala creation myth
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David . 2 years ago
Diogenes
Some thieves have burgled every house; The rich are sorrowing
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David . 2 years ago
Verbal Hankerings
A hungry alphabet will flock One word to several things.
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David . 2 years ago
An Ode to Lies
Loquacious people love to spill Plump secrets they're too vain to keep.
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David . 2 years ago
Effigies
Our senses fashion effigies Of a dead past, useless as guides
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David . 2 years ago
Niobe
The strongest passions, joy and sorrow Contract the feelings like a vice,
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David . 2 years ago
Thyrsus
The boy-king wanted to incinerate A fell and meretricious thryrus.
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David . 2 years ago
Desolation
Appalled by the strife, misery, And grief that made my children sad.
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David . 2 years ago
Catafalques
Our undercroft had housed our dead Unseen, in gloomy sepulture.
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David . 3 years ago
The Fortunate Isle
In mainland meadows, flowers tempt, Yet spurn those animals they tease,
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David . 3 years ago
Clacking
Clacking belongs to hollow shells, And echoes stilled, and tongueless bells.
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David . 3 years ago
Verbal Hankerings
A hungry alphabet will flock One word to several things.
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David . 3 years ago
Malignancy
One of their neighbors is afflicted With a fell spirit, lost, and doomed
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