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Bill Kochman "Firewalkers" poem banner showing author photo, decorative quills, and link to Bill's Bible Basics poetry page

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an image of a tree. The image is digitally manipulated. Semicircles bounce on pixelated lines in the center of the image, colors dripping down through the distillation.

"A Woman Homer Sung" by William Butler Yeats — musical poem on V2Melody

"A Lesson in Latin" by Lewis Carroll — musical poem on V2Melody

Norman MacCaig
Hermes-Mercury

Hermes was a bad god, a shifty fellow,
a liar, a thief, a teller of the future
(with dice, of course), a musician,
herald and messenger of the gods.

No wonder mercury was called after Mercury.
No wonder the Romans gave him that name:
the Trader, the Business Man.

How he must have laughed when the Romans
raised a statue to him
– god of commerce, god of profit and loss –
in the Street called Sober Street
where no shops were allowed, no pubs.

No wonder he was the conveyor of dreams.
Garden of Bliss, Vision of Hell – what did he care?
Yet I admire him. He was a survivor.

What a god, to survive among
those other gods and goddesses, those arrogant,
selfish, high-living turncoats and lechers –
too stupid to notice they were only
the blind dupes of Fate.

. . . Fate must have loved him, the black sheep,
the con man, the wide boy of Olympus.

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Promotional image for Bill Kochman's poem "Unjust Justice" featuring the author photo, quill icons and poetry site link

My Poem - ©️Catherine Beavis

(on a picture of two soaring dragonflies with pink & purple cloudy skies, & a beautiful orange setting sun)
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Yesterday, i fell asleep
like every night before,
& in my wondrous dreams
you whisk me away
to an island of fantasies,
where dragonflies dance
'neath a setting papaya sun
with their shimmering wings
of euphoria,
where in the stardust zephyr
amid enchantment skies
of moonlight melodies
i find a forever love
enveloped in your arms,
and, as i wake alone
once again
with my heartbeats aria
singing your name
i smile,
knowing I'll revisit this image
in my reveries tonight
& in all of my tomorrow's.
@CatherineBeavis